[Music] Fifty years ago today

[Worried Man Blues]

They built Clair Hall on our football pitch, bar stewards, as an aside saw Genesis support Lindisfarne, weird. Didn't even know I'd seen Genesis until I looked at the ticket stub some 30 years later!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

More nostalgia than anything else. That said, when I was 15, I was the singer in a little band based in Burgess Hill (we played the Clare Hall in HH once) that did covers, and this was one of the songs I (badly) belted out.

I really liked CCR as well. When I was a kid (born 1953. so in the 1960s, I had their first four albums. I can still remember, in the kitchen of my dad's shop in Worthing, hearing Proud Mary for the first time on the radio - Saturday lunchtime on the Emperor Rosko show!

 

[Robinjakarta]

Clair Hall, Rock'n'Roll. One up from the Martlets at Burgess Hill which I note has now been demolished. Saw Roger McGuinn (yes, that one) play a solo concert there. Perhaps another thread of big names at unlikely venues, for which I also put forward Hall and Oates at Crawley Leisure Centre?

Saw The Small Faces at The Downs Hotel, Hassocks when they were Number One in the charts.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I saw Dean Friedman at the Crawley leisure centre about 10 years ago - albeit in the small hall. He was brilliant though. As we all left he was standing outside shaking everybody’s hand and saying thanks for coming.

Well, well.

 

[GT49er]

songs from 50 years ago? I’m like a pig in shit

can you imagine the outrage if this film clip was from today?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzppy9hjya8

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[GT49er]

They built Clair Hall on our football pitch, bar stewards, as an aside saw Genesis support Lindisfarne, weird. Didn't even know I'd seen Genesis until I looked at the ticket stub some 30 years later!

That tour visited Worthing too (1972?) - couldn't get in to see Genesis, it was packed out. Loads of people outside who also couldn't get in to see Genesis - We could easily have got into to see Lindisfarne, because half the audience left after Genesis, but nobody bothered!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

That tour visited Worthing too (1972?) - couldn't get in to see Genesis, it was packed out. Loads of people outside who also couldn't get in to see Genesis - We could easily have got into to see Lindisfarne, because half the audience left after Genesis, but nobody bothered!

Still love Lindisfarne, I think I can remember someone with a funny hat, must have been Genesis Peter Brophy don't care....

 

[el punal]

That tour visited Worthing too (1972?) - couldn't get in to see Genesis, it was packed out. Loads of people outside who also couldn't get in to see Genesis - We could easily have got into to see Lindisfarne, because half the audience left after Genesis, but nobody bothered!

Got a feeling that was November 1971 - I would imagine it was the same tour as I saw Lindisfarne at the Dome (Brighton) then.

 

[GT49er]

Got a feeling that was November 1971 - I would imagine it was the same tour as I saw Lindisfarne at the Dome (Brighton) then.

Not sure - I 'discovered' Genesis when I bought Nursery Cryme on spec - that was released in November '71, and I think I'd had the album for a while before finding that they were supporting Lindisfarne in Worthing on an occasion when I popped home to visit my parents.
Still, it was 50 years ago (well, nearly) so........................!