From The Beatles to The Smiths, from Madonna to Bowie
With festival season well underway, it's the time of year music fans will be basking in the sunshine - or braving the wash out - to catch their favourite bands and artists play live.
The list is subjective and all music fans will have their own take on what should have been included or given a miss. But we have purposely concentrated on individual bands and artists, rather than huge benefit events like One Love Manchester in 2017 or Rock Against Racism back in 1978.
Please Please Me, their debut album, had come out in March, and the wondrous single ‘She Loves You’ in August. On November 20 that year they were in Manchester - it was two days before the assassination of John F Kennedy, and two days before the release of their second album, With The Beatles. Madonna - The Hacienda, 1984 It has been 40 years since Madonna first played a gig in Manchester. It also happened to be her first ever appearance in Britain - at the Hacienda for a live broadcast of The Tube on January 27, 1984.
The superstar waited another 20 years before returning to play live in the city again, at the arena for the opening leg of her Re:Invention world tour in 2004. New Order - Beach Club at Oozits, 1980 Credited as the first-ever New Order show - just months after the passing of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis - the band came together for the Printed Noises benefit. The gig took place at The Beach Club at Oozits, on Newgate Street in Shudehill on July 30, 1980.
But it's the four nights David Bowie played the Hardrock in the same year that are said to be among the most memorable. Bowie appeared on his Ziggy Stardust tour on the opening night of the Hardrock on September 2, 1972, and appeared again the following night. In the second half of the show he was joined by his band The Hawks, who were basically members of The Band, and a guest drummer. And when he switched his guitar for a plug-in Stratocaster, all hell broke loose .
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