50 Years Ago Today ...

[Lord Bracknell]

... Telstar was launched.

It changed our lives.

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[aftershavedave]

it was first used 50 years ago today for a satellite link to the states wasn't it? that's what they said on the today programme, so it was probably launched before then...

 

[BLOCK F]

64 years ago today,I was born.
Happy Birthday to me!

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

And eventually it gave us Muse.


Brilliant song, remember listening to it over and over when I first heard it as a kid in the 80's.

The satellites were cool too I suppose.

 

[Icy Gull]

... Telstar was launched.

It changed our lives.

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I used to listen to that on a tiny little transistor radio fading in and out to Radio Luxembourg

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Was it today though?

July 10 for the satellite launch, August for the song.

I is confused!

 

[Bwian]

I used to listen to that on a tiny little transistor radio fading in and out to Radio Luxembourg

Fab 208.

 

[maltaseagull]

It was my first record!!!

 

[Jam The Man]

I used to listen to that on a tiny little transistor radio fading in and out to Radio Luxembourg

Quality instrumental, during competitive instrumental times...

 

[Icy Gull]

Joe Meek who produced the Tornados had an interesting life and ultimately tragic end.

Joe Meek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He passed up the chance to work with the then unknown David Bowie, the Beatles (the latter he once described as "just another bunch of noise, copying other people's music") and Rod Stewart. John Repsch, in The Legendary Joe Meek recounts that upon hearing Stewart sing, Meek rushed into the studio, put his fingers in his ears and screamed until Stewart had left