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Queen play at The Greyhound, Croydon, England, UK, Europe.Full article:
Howard Bossick (owner, The Greyhound) : When Queen had finished their gig, I had a bit of an argument with Freddie Mercury because he was smashing up my piano. It wasn’t a grand piano but he shouldn’t have been doing it and he was a bit over the top.
Croydon had a thriving music scene and probably the most knowledgeable audiences as far as bands were concerned at the time. It was thought that if a band made it at the Greyhound, they’d made it.
There weren’t many venues in the capital, particularly ones the size of the Greyhound. It was one of the foremost venues in South London, if not the whole of London. On Sundays we ran the ‘Croydon Blues Club’, where you could rock up and pay a few quid to see some of the breaking bands at the time. Some of them turned out to be very important names in the British, and indeed international, music scene: Deep Purple, The Faces, Status Quo, Genesis, Stealer’s Wheel, Hawkwind, Thin Lizzy, The Ramones, The Jam…
(Source : http://thecroydoncitizen.com/culture/croydon-music-greyhound-interview/)
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Croydon had a thriving music scene and probably the most knowledgeable audiences as far as bands were concerned at the time. It was thought that if a band made it at the Greyhound, they’d made it.
There weren’t many venues in the capital, particularly ones the size of the Greyhound. It was one of the foremost venues in South London, if not the whole of London. On Sundays we ran the ‘Croydon Blues Club’, where you could rock up and pay a few quid to see some of the breaking bands at the time. Some of them turned out to be very important names in the British, and indeed international, music scene: Deep Purple, The Faces, Status Quo, Genesis, Stealer’s Wheel, Hawkwind, Thin Lizzy, The Ramones, The Jam…
(Source : http://thecroydoncitizen.com/culture/croydon-music-greyhound-interview/)