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Peter Gabriel – “Games Without Frontiers” (1980)
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Happy 131st Birthday Boris Pasternak
Today is the 131st birthday of the Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak. It is always with a tinge of embarrassment when you say you first learned of a very important writer through...
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Peter Gabriel – “Games Without Frontiers” (1980) Though not explicitly about the Cold War exactly, “Games Without Frontiers” often registers as one of the iconic songs influenced by the politics of...
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XTC – “Living Through Another Cuba” (1980) Like “Enola Gay,” XTC’s “Living Through Another Cuba” is another ’80s track that looks to past atomic era events to illuminate their current moment, this...
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Happy 132nd Birthday Boris Pasternak
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XTC – “Living Through Another Cuba” (1980) Like “Enola Gay,” XTC’s “Living Through Another Cuba” is another ’80s track that looks to past atomic era events to illuminate their current moment, this...
View ArticleMusic Monday –“Games Without Frontiers” – Peter Gabriel (1980)
Peter Gabriel – “Games Without Frontiers” (1980) Though not explicitly about the Cold War exactly, “Games Without Frontiers” often registers as one of the iconic songs influenced by the politics of...
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After The Fire – “Der Kommissar” (1982) Originally cut by Austrian singer Falco, “Der Kommissar” was also made famous when the British band After The Fire made an English version. It’s one of the...
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Happy 133rd Birthday Boris Pasternak
Today is the 133rd birthday of the Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak. It is always with a tinge of embarrassment when you say you first learned of a very important writer through...
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