Tag: Channel 4
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In the beginning…before Later with Jools Holland…there was The Tube…
There was a time before Later…with Jools Holland. This was a time of The Tube… In 1986 it was still challenging to hear heavy metal on mainstream media. It would have been easier for Ghengis Khan to pass a CRB police check to help out at his local school than for the UK public to…
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Dispatches – The Great Ticket Scandal
The way concert tickets are sold nowadays does little but irritate everyone involved. Twenty five years ago, I was occasionally pretty good at getting good tickets for gigs: front row for Def Leppard, Judas Priest and Anthrax shows at Hammersmith Odeon, and best of all Aerosmith supported by Guns n Roses at Hammersmith. I was…
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