Category: Music
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The Rolling Stones, O2 Arena, 25 November 2012
Ah, the Stones. Unquestionably the greatest rock’n’roll band of all time. No-one else can match them for authenticity, for appetite, for longevity, most of all for excitement.
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David Bowie, Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, 24 December 1972
Bowie prowled the stage screaming “Gimme your hands…cause you’re wonderful” – written for this very purpose – reaching out his healing hands to fans like the god he had become that night.
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king commode and his expanding rubber band, Watford Grammar School for Boys – 1st April 1969
I had no yardstick by which to measure the quality of the live music I heard that night, fifty years ago. But to my impressionable young ears, it was the best thing, ever. Thank you guys.
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Dr Feelgood, Cambridge Corn Exchange – 25 September 1976
…they were prophets come to lead us to a better future, or a better past, and I reached for them, a parched wanderer at an oasis.
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Everly Brothers, Royal Albert Hall – Thursday 22 September 1983
“Do you think they’ll get it?” asked the brothers. The reply came back from their British hosts “Are you nuts? They’ll go crazy!”
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Led Zeppelin, Empire Pool, Wembley – 21 November 1971
It was electrifying: I had never heard anything like it, and somehow by the end of their first song tears had welled up from sheer excitement and joy.
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The Top (Insert Arbitrary Number) Classic Nasty Songs
If you were ever tempted to invite Ray Davies to join you in a game of golf, pay attention.
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I Predict a Diet
And if there’s anyone who comes out here Who only wants to come to there I predict a diet! I predict a diet! I predict a diet! I predict a diet!
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