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THE SEX PISTOLS 🎸 LESSER FREE TRADE HALL 1976 🎸 TICKETS £1

Bob Dylan played the Free Trade Hall in 1965, and again in 1966, the occasion of the "Judas!" shout. The famous bootleg that circulated from Dylan's 1966 tour, which was incorrectly dubbed the 'Royal Albert Hall' concert for years, was in fact the recording from the Manchester Free Trade Hall 1966 concert. This concert was eventually officially released in 1998 as The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert. Duo Simon & Garfunkel played here in 1967, debuting their newly written song 'Punky's Dilemma' with the original opening line of "I wish I was a Kellog's cornflake, floatin' in my bowl takin' movies", and a new song for upcoming film The Graduate, "Mrs Robinson". In the late 1960s Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, The Moody Blues, T. Rex and The Dubliners played there amongst others. Pink Floyd played on five occasions. Genesis played twice, on 30 January 1971 (together with Lindisfarne and Van der Graaf Generator) and in February 1973. On 13 May 1976, Kiss played their first UK concert at the venue. On 4 June 1976, the Lesser Free Trade Hall was the venue for a concert by the Sex Pistols at the start of the punk rock movement. This concert would prove influential as it led to the formation of bands such as Joy Division, Buzzcocks, The Smiths and The Fall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Trade_Hall

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Taken on July 20, 1976