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"Hello, and welcome to YourHistoryHere, the place where you can share your knowledge about those unusual places, buildings or things that make places interesting to live. This site is on limited circulation at the moment, and is only supposed to be a mySociety demo, not a big posh project like PledgeBank. It may not be obvious, but the most important feature of YourHistoryHere is the construction of an underlying system for collecting and sharing geographic annotations in an open syndicated format, so you can use the yummy local data people leave for your own purposes. We're building two sites that show how this can be useful, this one and Placeopedia.com, and we'd love to share the code for other ideas. Anyone want to build WhereIHadMyFirstKiss.com? Tom Steinberg, mySociety Director - 23/08/2005"

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Site of The Glasgow Apollo

The Apollo provided artists with the opportunity to perform in front of one of the most discerning and demanding audiences in the world. Such was its reputation that one relieved act is reputed to have printed T-shirts saying: "....I played the Apollo and survived". Others, such as Joe Loss, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Status Quo and the SAHB made their names at the venue and many including Paul McCartney, Nazareth and The Stranglers recorded classic live sets there. Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade says that for her "...it was an amazing feeling playing there, better than the Albert Hall". Tom Robinson told us that the Apollo audience was "just the wildest, warmest audience a band could ever want."

Long. -4.25531, Lat. 55.86463 | written on 16th Sep 2005 by andy muir | Email this to a friend | abusive?

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blogolith replies: At one time it was owned by Frankie Lynch, who later moved on to start various clubs in New York. Amongst his early successes, he managed Billy Connoly and Sidney Divine!

written 16th Sep 2005 | abusive?

Scott McArthur replies: I still miss the old place even although it was closed 20 years ago. There are hundreds of stories about the Apollo at www.glasgowapollo.com .

written 16th Sep 2005 | abusive?

tommacknight replies: I remember seeing black sabbath at the apollo in the early seventies my ticket cost the princley sum of 75 pence

written 11th Nov 2008 | abusive?

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