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OTT - Queen at Knebworth 1986.
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Which Boro fans on here were fortunate enough to see this live performance?
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Yep supported by the Quo and Belouis Some IIRC. I was 12 and tucked in to a bottle of Kestral lager. It don’t really remember the gig apart from the big numbers.
However Knebworth 1990 Nordoff Robins gig, is still my greatest gig ever.
Page/Plant, Clapton, straits, McCartney and Pink floyd to name but a few
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I was there. Don’t forget Big Country!
It was a warm day. Belouis Some only did a couple of songs before he got bottled - a sea of bottles flew at him for ages before the promoter came on stage to ask everyone to stop! Belouis Some didn’t return.
Big Country were brilliant, as were Status Quo but Queen were incredible. I’m so pleased I went & boast about it regularly!
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I remember a bloke on the roof of the stage head banging whilst Quo were on
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Went to the latter,think it was only Gilmour and possibly Richard Wright not whole of Floyd and if I remember pissed it down all of the set
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Was billed as Pink Floyd.
The whole gig is on YouTube.
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Fair enough , can't remember Mason being there , think Walters had left by then anyway.
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I was there and forgot they were there at all.
No memory of McCartney actually playing either, although I did manage to see him walking into the artists bar.
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I was and also saw them at Wembley Stadium the same year 😎
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Worked backstage at the Phil Collins charity gig, the Hard Rock Cafe was chock full of celebrities.
Think the poster is still up at Hitchin train station.
Also worked Robbie Williams and the really shit Ministry of Sound/Jamiroquai one that lost a ton of money.
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I loved the MoS one, the Golden Arena all night plus PvD in the Renaissance tent 🙌
PvD's set is on Soundcloud :-)
https://on.soundcloud.com/veLnj
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I knew what the break even ticket sales number was.
And I knew the actual and the paid attendance.
The guest list and free pass list was massive, absolutely stupidly big.
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"Think the poster is still up at Hitchin train station."
I wouldn't have thought so.
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At moment there are quite a few Posters there for next round of gigs at Hitchin Priory amongst other Rubbish Busted and Craig David on.
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What Chuds means is Hitchin Train Station doesn't exist
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Was there yesterday.
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I think you might have been at Hitchin Railway Station
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Wouldn't have thought so.
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I went. And to Oasis. In those days we got tickets from FL Moores record shop.
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Also went to Oasis and Live Aid type thing with Dave Gilmour,also back in the day collect rubbish with thousand of other kids after each gig .When older went up to Lytton Arms and sat in beer garden to hear acts .
Moores was brilliant , Aladdin's cave and did trips to gigs over country,had other shops in Area but offshoot possibly called Falcon in South .Miss the place.
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Next door to a great chippy too!
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Didn't get to Queen, but I'm old enough to have been to Led Zeppelin in 1979 (which was fantastic)
As a Letchworth resident at the time, we had to buy our tickets from David's Bookshop - priced at £7.50
Happy days!
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We listened to Queen in the back garden, more crowd noise than anything else really. I went to the Oasis gig, and walked home to the Old Town afterwards. Distinct lack of beer opportunities during and after that.
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David's is still going and love browsing round .Still have odd events like a talk from an Author or artist playing acoustic.
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I was there. Queen, Oasis, Robbie Williams. My best mate (still) made the most incredible joke about Mercury’s health and was 100% correct long before we knew anything for sure. He regrets it now.
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Why does he regret it? Did he give it to him?
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Apparently he was shattered by the end of the gig, poor bloke.
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