45 years ago today, May 5th, 1977, the Shadows were in sunny Blackpool, at the Opera House, on their 20 Golden Dates tour.
The tour had started on May 2nd, In Bristol, and would continue until the 24th, when they would be in Stoke-on-Trent. I'll admit that, as a 13 year old, I was too young to see them at their two-night residency at Bunny's Place nightclub in Cleethorpes (saw the ad in the local paper and wanted to go!), but have since got a couple of recordings from that tour (but not the Cleethorpes gigs) and these will have to do!
Also managed to get a couple of copies of 20GG on 8-track cartridge - well, one is never enough - and have to wonder how many people in May '77 were listening to these in their car on the way to the gig!