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The Gigging Years: The Voice

by Graeme Cumming | Dec 7, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years | 6 comments

Some time back, I wrote about the first time I saw Thin Lizzy when the original headliners were supposed to be Ultravox. It was a year later, 1982, before I finally got to see the band I was supposed to. In 1981, their biggest hit, Vienna, was cheated of a number one...

The Gigging Years: Ghost in the Machine

by Graeme Cumming | May 21, 2019 | Nostalgia, The Gigging Years | 0 comments

Listening to the radio the other day, I heard Every Little Thing She Does is Magic. Not a big deal until I heard the year it was released: 1981. Was it really that long ago since I saw them? As with a lot of gigs, this one started with a suggestion from Zim. “Do you...

The Gigging Years: A Kind of Magic

by Graeme Cumming | Mar 10, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years | 15 comments

Having been in the wrong kind of mood when I saw Queen in 1984, then missing them at Live Aid as a matter of principle, when the opportunity arose to see them again, I didn’t hesitate. The Magic tour was being held in stadiums, so it was time to head to Wembley....

The Gigging Years: Or Not, In This Case

by Graeme Cumming | Jan 30, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years | 4 comments

I wrote recently about going to watch Bohemian Rhapsody. The film begins and ends at Live Aid, and reproduces in full the set played there by Queen. Watching those fifteen or twenty minutes of film left me feeling very emotional. In part, it was watching this...

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