Blues Explosion
Paul Gorman, MOJO, October 2002
FOR MANY A PUNK CHANCER, CRED comes with claims of attending the Sex Pistols' brace of gigs at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in the summer of 1976. But long before the Pistols hit the North, Manchester's larger municipal Free Trade Hall ("The Home Of The Halle") hosted a gig of equally significant proportions for a previous generation of rockers.
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