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Saturday 14th September 1974 was when 72,000 people packed Wembley stadium to see Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young the American Supergroup of "Teach Your Children fame". We loved them....so we were there! Below is the story of the day.... |
| From "Sounds" of September 21st 1974 - |
| "Everyone had their doubts. Throughout the day long musical orgy all 72,000 paying customers sat in nervous anticipation, enjoying the exceptionally fine music and the low key atmosphere but privately wondering if the rave reviews from the States were true. Like a dream come true three masters of the Californian sound and one transplanted Englishman flawlessly revealed how after all these years and all these changes they remain unchallenged title holders as the definitive American band, heavyweight division. C S N & Y had been good in the past but they were even better at Wembley. From the "Love the one you're with" kickoff right on through the passionate "Ohio" finale, C S N & Y turned a content, sane crowd into crazy, raving cup-match brawlers." |  |
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In the middle of this mad crowd, Tats stood
with total dedication holding a microphone, looking like the statue of
liberty, for hours. As a result we have here some sound files of the
actual event, complete with crowd noise (mostly a bunch of drunken
Yorkshiremen shouting "sit down" and "Neil Young"),
clapping, singing along, and plenty of bass echo, with an occasional
hint of the performers! Try clicking on the links below to listen. They
are MP3 files and the sample file is quite small but the full song files
are 3 or 4mb and can take ages to download - only for the dedicated fan!
Click on the links below to play: |
Set lists for CSN&Y and for Joni Mitchell which must have been compiled from memory shortly after the event. |
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| Ohio.....sample
696k 45secs
Helpless.....sample 894k 57secs Helpless.....full 4.3mb 4min41secs Only love....sample 915k 58secs Only love.....full 3.1mb 3min22secs Teach your children...sample 768k 49secs
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Military
Madness.....sample 571k 36secs
Military Madness.....full 3.1mb 3min21secs Old Man.....sample 1mb 1min 08secs Old Man.....full 3.6mb 3mins51secs Our House.....sample 417k 26secs |
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from my diary Friday 13th
Went down to the Marquis at night. Everyone turned up as usual, then me and Hank went up to Anna's and had some coffee and waited for Ade. Hank went to sleep and I waited up for ages then fell asleep. Ade woke the whole house up at 3.00am when he rang then he came up. Had breakfast and set off at 6.00 am.
Of course we had to have a rehearsal before the gig! I think this is us at Annas while awaiting for Tats to arrive! |
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Then Tom Scott
and the LA Express at 4.00 - OK. Then Joni Mitchell - brilliant. Then
from 6.30 till 10.00 CSN&Y - absolutely out of this universe. They
did Ohio as an encore and the whole place went mad, absolutely mad.
72,000 of us.
Sunday 15th Hank kept falling asleep so we stopped at all the services. Got home at 3.30 am and slept till 1.00. Went to the Imperial to see Cisco in the evening.
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| Saturday 14th
Got to the station at about 9.00 and met Mart OK. Got to Wembley and had to wait for about an hour but got good seats when we went in.Jesse Colin Young came on at 12.00 - good. Then The Band - good.
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