The Sex Pistols play the Lesser Free Hall: all of indie Manchester sees the future of music

4 June 1976: Number 8 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicGoogle the words "Sex Pistols Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976", or simply "4 June 1976", and you can use the resultant 22,600,000 pieces of information to piece together a crudely helpful history of a) Manchester music, b) the birth of indie music and c) the "greatest gig of all time" that "changed music for ever". The fact that if you Google the additional words "swear I was there" you come across more details abo...

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