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The Who play at Mister McCoy's, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK, EuropeFull article:
Eugene McCoy (brother of promoter John McCoy) : It was great, an amazing venue, and me and my brothers Peter and Tom opened the original Purple Onion there as a coffee bar.
Stevie Wonder, Georgie Fame, The Who, Rod Stewart, the lot of them came. I used to run the cloakroom and clean up on Saturday mornings.
Rod Stewart's agent rang and said John wasn't to give Rod the fee (for a gig at The Kirk, in nearby Kirklevington), but send it to him instead. So there's Rod, no money, and he comes into the coffee shop complaining he's starving.
All I had in the place was a tin of tomato soup, so I opened it and he just drank it, straight from the tin.
We couldn't cook. It was all simple stuff - sausage, egg and chips and such - but it was the buzz of the place that was so special.
It was full of mods on a Saturday lunchtime and everyone who was anyone came and played there.
The people were brilliant, the bands were amazing. That's when Middlesbrough really was Middlesbrough.
Source : Evening Gazette, Teeside, UK, 15 March, 2004)
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Stevie Wonder, Georgie Fame, The Who, Rod Stewart, the lot of them came. I used to run the cloakroom and clean up on Saturday mornings.
Rod Stewart's agent rang and said John wasn't to give Rod the fee (for a gig at The Kirk, in nearby Kirklevington), but send it to him instead. So there's Rod, no money, and he comes into the coffee shop complaining he's starving.
All I had in the place was a tin of tomato soup, so I opened it and he just drank it, straight from the tin.
We couldn't cook. It was all simple stuff - sausage, egg and chips and such - but it was the buzz of the place that was so special.
It was full of mods on a Saturday lunchtime and everyone who was anyone came and played there.
The people were brilliant, the bands were amazing. That's when Middlesbrough really was Middlesbrough.
Source : Evening Gazette, Teeside, UK, 15 March, 2004)