Like a real life field of dreams Alf Hyslop built it - the Grey
Topper music venue in Jacksdale, an obscure Nottinghamshire pit
village - and they came - glam kings Sweet, Mud, Bay City Rollers,
Hot Chocolate, soul legends Ben E king, Geno Washington, Edwin
Starr, reggae greats Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff, heavy metal
acts UFO, Judas Priest, Saxon. Then came the punk rock and new wave
explosion - The Stranglers, The Vibrators, UK Subs, The Members,
The Ruts, Angelic Upstarts, Ultravox, Adam and the Ants, The
Pretenders, Toyah, The Specials, Simple Minds. Inevitably with
punk, violence flared, culminating in the Angelic Upstarts riot gig
that has gone down in Jacksdale folklore. The Palace and the Punks
tells the amazing, hilarious (imagine a 1970's Phoenix Nights if
Top of the Pops was filmed there), and occasionally sad, true story
of the Grey Topper, centred around its last rise and fall and pogo
in 1979. From the same author of the acclaimed If the Kids are
United. www.manutdbooks.com
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