You Don't Have to be in Harlem: Story of the Glasgow Apollo

by RussellLeadbetter (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $34.18

  It lasted 12 years and has been gone for seven, but thousands of people in Scotland and abroad still mourn its absence. The Glasgow Apollo - the final incarnation of Green's Playhouse - was a shabby, rundown venue. Yet it had stunning atmosphere and rock groups were desperate to play there. Many acts rated it amongst the top venues of the world and it has attained almost mythical proportions in the minds of those who played there or who went there as fans. At least one rock giant reportedly wept as he visited the ruined and empty site where the Apollo once stood. With anecdotes and photographs, this book sets out to reveal the magic that was the Glasgow Apollo.