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Post by faginy on May 6, 2004 15:19:06 GMT 1
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Post by PorkyShrew on May 6, 2004 15:21:18 GMT 1
wow i didnt know that either and i work in the music industry
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Post by DiglisShrew on May 6, 2004 15:31:21 GMT 1
I believe two of my elder sisters went to see them there as well other groups such as The Kinks , Dave Clark Five etc.
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Post by PorkyShrew on May 6, 2004 15:36:10 GMT 1
dave clark five.... NOW WE'RE TALKING!!!
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Post by Red Blue and Amber on May 6, 2004 15:43:59 GMT 1
I did see the Dave Clark 5 gerry and the pacemakers and I think Hermans Hermits I am very old!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2004 15:48:07 GMT 1
My mate's mum saw them there.
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Post by somersetshrew on May 6, 2004 15:54:03 GMT 1
I was somehow under the impression that they played at the Granada (now the bingo place) They should be honoured to have played on the same stage as such class acts as the Angelic Upstarts, the Damned etc......
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Post by duncowshrew on May 6, 2004 17:33:38 GMT 1
At the back end of the 60's, Salop used to be a hot bed for rising stars to cut their teeth. Shrewsbury Tech used to have their end of season bashes at the Music Hall. Great bands such as Yes, Groundhogs, Chickenshack(yes,shack!) all graced us with their presence. I'll never forget that in about 1970,me and a few mates went to a dance/bbq at a farm in Ford. Some unknown band called Hot Chocolate were playing. Half way through the night an almighty ruck broke out, but fair play, they never missed a note. Old Errol couldn't get off the stage quick enough at the end mind you!. Happy days!
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Post by duncowshrew on May 6, 2004 17:36:59 GMT 1
At the back end of the 60's, Salop used to be a hot bed for rising stars to cut their teeth. Shrewsbury Tech used to have their end of season bashes at the Music Hall. Great bands such as Yes, Groundhogs, Chickenshack(yes,shack!) all graced us with their presence. I'll never forget that in about 1970,me and a few mates went to a dance/bbq at a farm in Ford. Some unknown band called Hot Chocolate were playing. Half way through the night an almighty ruck broke out, but fair play, they never missed a note. Old Errol couldn't get off the stage quick enough at the end mind you!. Happy days!
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Post by duncowshrew on May 6, 2004 17:40:31 GMT 1
oops!!
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Post by MRJPSHREW on May 6, 2004 17:43:44 GMT 1
What a difference, Love Me Do had been released a couple of months before and was steadly climbing the charts. Now a single comes out on a monday, sells 10, Number one on Sunday, out of the charts the following week. Its not very often now a single is a million seller on these shores and all too often singles come straight in at number one. It wasnt to 1980 that it first ever happened.
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Post by somersetshrew on May 6, 2004 17:57:24 GMT 1
Correction John.... Nov 1952 Here in my heart - Al Martino Jan 1958 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley Nov 1960 Its now or never - Elvis Presley Jan 1962 The Young ones Sir Clifford of Richard Apr 1969 Get Back - The Beatles Mar 1973 Cum on Feel the noize - Slade Jun 1973 Skweeze me Pleeze me - Slade Nov 1973 I love you love me love - Gary Glitter Dec 1973 Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade all made straight in at number one pre 1980. but I'll let you off
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Post by Hatfieldshrew on May 6, 2004 18:28:00 GMT 1
Gen X played here as well and Billy Idol got pulled of the stage and got a good kicking for saying STFC were crap and other comments. I think the Police played here as well, at Tiffany's.
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 6, 2004 19:05:53 GMT 1
Where in Shrewsbury did the Beatles play?
I was at Crewe, just starting my teacher training course when the Beatles released "Love me Do".
A few years earlier, when I was in my early teens, some friends and I went to see Adam Faith (how sad is that?) He was on at - was it called The Granada or something- it's near the railway station- Castle Gates and it's now a Bingo place.
I've met a lot of people connected with the Beatles when I lived in Liverpool- but not the Beatles themselves.
Paul's brother, Mike, used to come into the Philharmonic Pub regularly. I've been to their house when they lived in Forthlin Road, Allerton. (Now it's been bought by The National trust and "restored" to its original late 50s/early 60s decor!)
Mike was in the satire group- The Scaffold- and they were on a late night T.V, programme televised from Manchester- so Mike told some friends and I we could have tickets- and to go to their house to ask his Dad!
Then, of course, "Beatlemania" arrived and they moved- Paul bought them a house on the Wirral.
Of the other two "Scaffold " members- John gorman lives in Bridgnorth. He was funny- but had a cruel streak to his pranks- he had a friend called Bernie Start- and together they were lethal. I think it was considered smart to have a cruel sense of humour inthose days- like Bob Dylan. (Much as I like his music and lyrics)
Roger McGough- now quite an establishment figure- hosts "Poetry Please" on radio 4. He was nice. I remember when I first went to live in Liverpool- and I was standing on the corner of a road - I didn't know any better- and he came past with his girlfriend (she drove- he didn't drive"!)- the car stopped- door opened and he said "Get in, Pauline- you'll get picked up standing there!" He was quite protective of us naive girls "up from the sticks" as they said.
I actually e-mailed him - didn't think he'd remember me- but he said he did. He said, "The Pauline I remember was a bubbly person- and you obviously still are!" Nice guy!!!
Great days- but I'd still go back to live in Shropshire if I could!
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Post by Carter on May 6, 2004 19:09:41 GMT 1
I bought that poster a few months ago - sitting proudly on my wall at home!! It's pretty good!!
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Post by MRJPSHREW on May 6, 2004 19:22:35 GMT 1
Correction John.... Nov 1952 Here in my heart - Al Martino Jan 1958 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley Nov 1960 Its now or never - Elvis Presley Jan 1962 The Young ones Sir Clifford of Richard Apr 1969 Get Back - The Beatles Mar 1973 Cum on Feel the noize - Slade Jun 1973 Skweeze me Pleeze me - Slade Nov 1973 I love you love me love - Gary Glitter Dec 1973 Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade all made straight in at number one pre 1980. but I'll let you off Bugger I have always thought other wise
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on May 6, 2004 19:44:59 GMT 1
I was lead singer for The Henchmen in the '60's and we used to be bottom of the bill at the Music Hall when the likes of The Nashville Teens and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes were headliners.
The Beatles were on the same circuit but we never played with them. I didn't rate them at the time but my mate Chris Wallace (later a pro musician) thought they were great and used to drag me out to see them. He used to go up to the stage and discuss repertoire with them, we didn't get those black R'n'B records in Shrewsbury at the time so the songs were new and exotic to us.
I also went to concerts at the Granada and have the Beatles, Dave Clark, Kinks, Stones programmes here. You used to get great bills with half a dozen top acts all on one night.
I really think the '60's was a great time to be a teenager, even though free love was a little slow reaching Salop and we spent a lot of time being scared of an outbreak of nuclear war.
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Post by theriverside on May 6, 2004 19:51:40 GMT 1
My Dad was there, but I thought he said it was at the Granada as well?
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 6, 2004 20:07:25 GMT 1
I really think the '60's was a great time to be a teenager, even though free love was a little slow reaching Salop and we spent a lot of time being scared of an outbreak of nuclear war. Oh yes! I'd forgotten about the bomb! It was a BIG deal then, wasn't it? It did nearly happen, though, didn't it? With the USSR? Early 60s? I can remember hanging aroung moody bedsits in Liverpool, listening to some modern Jazz- and the lyrics were"Oh, Lord, don't let that atomic bomb fall on me!" Free love? Oh yes, it had hit Liverpool. But then people still generally paired up - and it was daring to live together in those days. I come from Market Drayton- and there were still plenty of unplanned teenage pregnancies. But it was covered up- the girls were packed off for a while- and the tale was that they'd had appendicitis or something. It was sad, really- the girls got all the stick in those days. A friend of mine was a brilliant student at school- but got pregnant at 15- and people turned away from her in the street and called her a wicked girl! She couldn't give up the baby when it came to it- and the lad married her. They were young, but they stuck together.
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on May 6, 2004 22:10:38 GMT 1
My Dad was there, but I thought he said it was at the Granada as well? In the early days The Beatles played dance halls, they were on the circuit with loads of other Mersey Beat bands. It was later that they did the package tours and played the Granada. In those days pop groups were a new phenomenon and used to be treated as part of the variety circuit. I remember seeing a band supported by a comic and a juggler ;D
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Post by ShrewsAde on May 6, 2004 22:24:35 GMT 1
I'm pretty sure a bloke I worked with - Bernard sommat, used to play in the Deltas.
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Post by harkaboy3 on May 6, 2004 22:52:46 GMT 1
they played the music hall and also the granada when they supported helen shapiro. the wedding present,stone roses,housemartins and house of love all played in the 80's bluetones,shed 7 and the levellers in the 90's/00's older members might remember the durutti column who are at the buttermarket tonight where the guitarist out of the chilli peppers is rumoured to be making a guest appearance the beatles are said to have wrote a song on the tour bus as they drove from york to shrewsbury but i cant remember which one!
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 7, 2004 1:36:27 GMT 1
So- has anyone else actually played in a band- or been the lead singer or anything?
This is a really interesting thread. The great thing about that era was the way that young people could just get together and form rock bands. It was such a creative time.
A couple of friends and I formed a girl rock band when we were students! We were absolute rubbish- but it was great fun! We played on Rag Day in the middle of Crewe. Because it's a Railway town, we called ourselves "The Shunters"!!! How bad is that!!
We didn't have a drummer so we drafted in a lad who played drums for a local band. We played Beatles stuff like "All my loving!" (It was on one of the first albums.)
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Post by Exkeeper on May 7, 2004 13:52:21 GMT 1
Missed the Fab Four at the Music Hall, but was lucky enough to see the Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Freddie and the Dreaners, Spencer Davies and Paul Jones of Manfred Mann, amongst others, at the Granada. It is true that John and Paul wrote a Beatles single, on the road, from York to Shrewsbury. I think it was " From me to You".
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