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The four-minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992. The name derived from the approximate length of time from the point at which a Soviet nuclear missile attack against the United Kingdom could be confirmed and the impact of those missiles on their targets.
"Four Minute Warning" is the first single released from Take That band member Mark Owen's second solo studio album, In Your Own Time. The single was released on 4 August 2003 as his first single on Island Records, after he was dropped from RCA in September 1997.
Four Minute Warning" was released as the album's lead single on 4 August 2003. The song was written by Owen and Eliot Kennedy and produced by Henry Priestman. The song peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart, making it his third UK top-ten single, with sales of over 80,000 copies sold in the United Kingdom. The song also reached number 37 in ...
WB1401 warning receiver in a former local authority control centre. The Director UKWMO was located at the United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Command (UK RAOC) at RAF Booker tasked with instigating the four-minute warning. [4] The Deputy Director would be located at a standby UK RAOC, described at the time as being "elsewhere in the UK".
Two-Minute Warning is a 1976 action thriller film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, and David Janssen. It was based on the novel of the same name written by George LaFountaine . The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. [2] [3]
Liquid Tension Experiment is the self-titled first studio album by the band Liquid Tension Experiment, released on March 10, 1998, through Magna Carta Records. [1] The band featured guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike Portnoy, at the time both of Dream Theater; bassist Tony Levin; and keyboardist Jordan Rudess, who would go on to join Dream Theater in 1999.
Construction Time Again is the third studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 22 August 1983 by Mute Records. [3] [4] It was the band's first album to feature Alan Wilder as a member, who wrote the songs "Two Minute Warning" and "The Landscape Is Changing".
"4-Minute Warning" (John Paul Jones) "For Her Atoms" (Lydia Kavina (Theremin), Misha Malin) In the liner notes, Eno describes his experience of watching the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 and his sense that the strangeness of the event was compromised by the low quality of the television transmission and an excess of journalists' commentary. He thus ...