Ticket
Free Trade Hall
10th December 1971

“pretty sure i was at this gig as a long haired 16 year old prog rocker. I remember they played mostly Tarkus. I would never have admitted this a few years later when i cut my hair and became a punk!”

“I turned up at this concert Nearing its end, entering through the doors left open for people to leave, I was looking for my girlfriend who I know had gone to the concert we had fallen out the day before. Me and my best friend went up to the circle and then I saw my girlfriend 17 sat on the steps behind the band on the stage where the Halle orchestra would sit. ELP were playing there encore. She was with her friend. I walked to the edge of the circle and dropped down onto those steps behind the band. I sat down next to my girlfriend and asked her Openly visible in front of 5000 people, whether we were finished, she replied yes I’m going to Scotland with Keith Emerson, I was devastated and climbed back into the circle as the band ended the gig, And she did go to Scotland with Keith Emerson and was on tour with him for a couple of weeks as his groupie. I met her six years later and took her to lunch. Security Would make it impossible to do what I did today”