A Night To Remember
‘By the end of the show, grown men were visibly weeping.’
Guns N’ Roses
Dallas Starplex Amphitheater
July 23, 1988
Dallas Starplex Amphitheater July 23, 1988
In the moments before Guns N’ Roses went on stage there was a strange atmosphere in the band’s dressing room. Slash, having turned 23 the previous day, was presented with a cake on which it was written in icing: ‘HAPPY FUCKIN’ BIRTHDAY YOU FUCKER’. But amid the boozy celebrations there was tension emanating from Axl Rose, who warmed up by singing to The Needle Lies by Queensrÿche – a thinly veiled warning to the other members of the band.
Paul Elliott
The Clash
Sheffield Top Rank
January 27, 1980.
There they were: The Clash, at the back of the Top Rank’s barely lit stage, wearing trench coats, collars turned up, grinning like naughty schoolboys, skanking away to support act Mikey Dread’s sliver-tongued toasting. Most of, ready to pogo, albeit through hemmed-in necessity rather than artistic statement.
