Around the time Voyager 2 left Earth, Carl Sagan and the Golden Record team took part in a chaotic press launch at a Florida motel, hampered by sound pollution from a Polish wedding. Afterwards, Timothy Ferris, the record’s producer, remembers receiving flak from a NASA staffer, angry there was no Irish music on the record. Let’s right the wrong here and now with The Dubliners’ 1976 performance of ‘The Auld Triangle‘ on German TV show Liedercircus.
Author of The Vinyl Frontier
