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There certainly were rock shows circa 1976/7 ....they didn’t last that long, but it was Zeppelin, Deep Purple , Black Sabbath, Bad Company, Jethro Tull records and the rest .....then there was a ‘turn’ on about 9.00.... Saw one of the Schenker brothers in an earlier version of UFO/Scorpions, (I forget which) ....UPP ( a budget Emerson Lake & Palmer) ....Sam Apple Pie, Hustler (the band not the lads mag) ....
”Out out out get outta my house,
you better take yer trench coat too...
no daughter o mine’s going out wiv an hippie
or a scruffy little bleeder like you”......
classic
Although every act got an encore, sometimes two, the only one I remember getting three were The Kursaal Flyers who were superb, a bit mor pastiche on 50’s rock & roll rather than out and out rock but they went down a storm that night with Wigan’s rock afficianados
(in our defence I fancy this was before “Little does she know that I Know that she knows etc etc)
Then about half eleven ....we trooped out past all the soulies in their long leathers, clutching their holdalls ....We’d then go upstairs in Bluto’s if we’d missed last orders at the John Bull (which had only opened JUST before then)...
”Who knows were 40 odd years went ?”.....come on Sandy, I think we should be told
Did you ever walk along that corridor from Mr M's through the door at the end and you were upstairs at the Casino.
Also Christmas and New Year Eve bashes were legendary....usually descended into utter drunken farce.
Times were so much simpler then and infinitely better.