![]() ![]() For it now sits in the undignified guise of a Radisson Edwardian hotel. Incredibly, it seems, its current owners prefer not to openly acknowledge such a legacy. ![]() Feelgood's ferocious 1975 performance and, of course, the two infamous Sex Pistols gigs in the heat of 1976. The end-of-gig riot during Lou Reed's Sally Can't Dance tour. In truth, it cannot be denied that 'things' do seem to happen here. All a touch romantic, perhaps, although Tony Wilson was fond of the connection. Many have claimed the site to be a fracture zone, a place where a social upheaval that fizzed to tragedy during the Peterloo Massacre, resonates down the ages (inspiring Percy Shelley's vitriolic poem 'The Mask of Anarchy'). Ghosts and echoes linger in every corner of what was once the Free Trade Hall, the only major building in England named after a proposition as AJP Taylor perceptively noted. Memories still crowd Manchester's most famous building. ![]()
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