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Wembley Arenaversary: A Legendary Venue Turns 50

Johnny Black, Audience, March 2009

FIFTY YEARS AGO, in March, 1959, Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan and rising young songstrel Shirley Bassey appeared in the Record Star Show, the first live music concert to take place at London’s much-mythologised Wembley Arena.

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