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Sat 11 Nov 2009Woodstock in a rose-tinted lens
THE ICONIC, ground-breaking gig which, if you believe every man in the pub, seems to have been attended by half the world’s population, is a constant of pop mythology. Only a few dozen people saw the Sex Pistols at St Martin’s College in 1975, but several thousand now claim to have been among the pogo-ing throng, writes DONALD CLARKE
The entire population of Manchester – plus large parts of Yorkshire and the English midlands – maintain they saw Bob Dylan anger folk purists at the Free Trade Hall in 1966. You know how these things go.
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