I found this old scribble in a draw this week. Years ago I obviously tried to remember who I had seen. Maybe some recent ones and all classical missing.
I think it gives my age away. 
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Oh, that list looks very familiar. I guess we are in the same age category 
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I’ll have a stab at 66.
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Absolutely spot on. Wow.
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The cool guys at school saw Roxy, Skynyrd and Paul Rodgers. They were a couple of years above me. (And wore army surplus great coats and platforms.)
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I didn’t keep any note of gigs (I am awful at diary keeping), but my list would start Deep Purple, possibly next was Pink Floyd (with Mountain and Faces), and then in my first two or three of years of gig-going, in no particular order, Black Sabbath, ELP, PFM, Curved Air, Wishbone Ash, Who, Yes, Focus, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, etc (some several times)…
Probably gives my age away as well - and how affordable gig tickets were in those days.
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Yep, I remember the army great coats and stack heels with big flared jeans.
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Where did you see The Police? We saw them at the Rainbow after their first hit, they were a support act (forgotten). Half way through their set Andy Summers started reciting a poem he’d written. It was beyond awful, and with the majority of the audience being punk the boos and cat-calls were very very loud. Sting asked for peace and quiet, but he didn’t yet have the authority.
The poetry stopped.
N.B. Andy, like Hugh Cornwell was an old hippie (Zoot Money, Burden’s Animals)
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I saw the Police at the other end of their journey from you. I saw them at the NEC in Brum in Dec 83. Synchronicity tour. I think they did more than one night there. Big slick arena stuff. I’m not sure they were getting on by that point, they certainly didn’t look like they were having much fun.
I also felt that we were hearing stuff they were not playing. ( Some enhancements shall we say).
Must’ve been great to see KLF.
(I never did, even tho I love em)
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I think their live performances were almost non existent. I saw them perform at the Brit Awards in 92 when Drummond fired blanks from an automatic weapon at the crowd which shocked a few people. Oh, and they left a dead sheep in reception.
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