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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
Subscriptions to Rock’s Backpages are available for institutional or personal use.
For institutions, Rock's Backpages is provided as an unlimited access subscription, meaning that all staff, students and library patrons have
unrestricted remote and on-site access to each text and audio file in the database. For full terms, please click here.
Please visit our Institutional Subscriptions page for further information and to arrange for a trial or quote.
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All About The World's Greatest Pop Show: 1966 NME Concert Mightiest Ever!
Keith Altham, Alan Smith,
New Musical Express,
6 May 1966
THOUSANDS upon thousands of fans converging on the massive Wembley Empire Pool for the biggest pop show in the world on Sunday... the staggering, the breathtaking NME Poll-winners Concert with its dazzling host of stars — Beatles, Stones, Walkers, Who, Dusty, Dave Dee, Roy Orbison, Cliff, Shads... and many others!
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