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The Stone Roses: Wembley Stadium, London

Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, June 2017

TO WEMBLEY STADIUM for the sell-out Stone Roses show, my first visit to the "new" Wembley, which towers up far higher than the old one – not that all the seats were filled, just that so many had come down on to the pitch, a massive throng of Roses fans crammed in closer and closer as they neared the big stage, all mad for it on this hot June night.

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