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The New Book!!!! Release date 1st October 2025...
...Volume 2 - The 1960s/1970s
The Keele Gigs!
(The Classic University Concerts)

The Keele Gigs! (The Classic University Concerts Volume 2 - The 1960s/1970s) by Dave Lee (Proverbial - Oct 2025). Return to the days when Pink Floyd Dire Straits Thin Lizzy Julie Felix The Buzzcocks Fairport Convention Jethro Tull Simple Minds Al Stewart XTC Cockney Rebel Ultravox The Moody Blues Mott The Hoople Annie Lennox ...and c500 more! played Keele's Student Union Ballroom stage. Even Eric Clapton's Cream headlined at Keele, and there was also the classic Deep Purple line-up (albeit as a support band!), a pre-LedZep appearance by Robert Plant, and even ELO's Jeff Lynne and also Mike Oldfield & Robert Palmer. And wasn't that Huey Lewis, Gary Moore and Crowded House?! Hundreds of bands passed through, including The Scorpions and Roy Wood's The Move, plus Can and Hawkwind. There's the real full story of the Edgar Broughton spray paint incident and the subsequent sensational court case: "I thought the judge was going to punch me!" Then there were the crazy names: Colonel Bagshot's Incredible Bucket Band Dr Strangely Strange Roger Ruskin Spear's Giant Kinetic Wardrobe Uncle Dog Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra John Street & The Inmates Of Number 12 But who out there has Keele's holy grail, a film copy of the 1967 Commem Ball (featuring Cream!), now worth a small fortune? Well, before you search your attic for film canisters, relive the excitement of the 500 bands that played at Keele in the 1960s/70s. It's all in: The Keele Gigs - Volume 2 The 1960s/1970s

Note: The Keele Gigs Volume 1 (1978-82), published September 2021, sold out quickly, but a Kindle version is still available.