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Added 7th October 2013 by mark shaw

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Free Trade Hall
31st May 1974

Lou Reed at the Free Trade Hall 31/05/1974. This was a great gig, but Lou wouldn't do an encore, and it kicked off and a riot ensued with some pretty nasty violence, and the cops came sharpish.
Lou had played at The Palace the previous year, that too was problematic, he was bloated and out of his brains, couldn't remember lyrics etc. I overheard a security bloke saying they'd been trying to sober him up in the shower. The set was very short, and they had to bring the safety curtain down cos the audience were chuckin' allsorts at the stage, because of no encore.
So it made people even angrier the following year !
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“Great story, Mark!”
08 Oct 2013
“Hi Mark,

I'm a big collector of Tangerine Dream memorabilia and am currently working on a large format photo book (11x13") of their concert memorabilia and would be thrilled to add your flyer to it!

Do you think you could help me out? (I've got one chance to get the book right before going to print, so any help would be huge!)

Thanks!

Brad”
16 Jun 2015
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