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Wembley Stadium has hosted many great music events, but it all started this weekend in 1972, Geoff marks the event with tracks from; Chuck Berry, Little Richard, & Bo Diddley.

Wembley Stadium has hosted many great music events down the years, but it all started this weekend in 1972, with `The Wembley Rock n Roll Festival`.
Still the greatest gathering of American rock n roll legends ever seen in the UK, Geoff marks the event with tracks from; Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley & Bo Diddley.

Plus the British contingent, which included Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Screaming Lord Sutch.

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Sun 4 Aug 201922:00
BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset & BBC Radio Wiltshire

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Music Played

  • Chuck Berry

    No particular place to go

  • Little Richard

    Lucille

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Shake rattle and roll

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    High school confidential

  • Bo Diddley

    You can`t judge a book by it`s cover

  • Frankie Ford

    Sea cruise

  • The Collins Kids

    I`m in my teens

  • Glen Campbell

    Blue moon of Kentucky (live)

  • The Holloway Echoes

    Custard powder blues

  • Stan Freberg

    Rock island line

  • Buddy Holly

    Reminiscing

  • Big Mama Thornton

    Hound dog

  • Ruth Brown

    This little girl`s gone rockin

  • Rodney Crowell

    Tell me the truth

  • Webb Pierce

    Teenage booogie

  • Joe Tex

    You little baby faced thing

  • Mark Keeley`s Good Rocking Tonight

    Do you want me to

  • Tony Crombie & The Rockets

    Sticks and stones

  • Ray Charles

    What`d I say

  • Bo Diddley

    Roadrunner (live)

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Chantilly lace(live)

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

  • Little Richard

    Lucille (live)

  • Chuck Berry

    Let it rock/Carol (live)

  • Billy Fury

    Halfway to paradise

  • Joe Brown

    Darktown strutters ball (2008)

  • Emile Ford & the Checkmates

    What do you want to make those eyes at me for

  • Heinz & The Outlaws

    Just like Eddie

  • Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages

    Good golly miss molly

  • Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis

    Roll over Beethoven

  • Cliff Richard & The Drifters

    Move it

  • Rodney Crowell with Johnny Cash

    Walk the line revisited

  • Elvis Presley

    Make me know it

  • Glen Campbell

    Turn around look at me

  • The Skyliners

    This I swear

  • The Righteous Brothers

    Unchained melody

Broadcasts

  • Sun 4 Aug 201918:00
    BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Guernsey & BBC Radio Cornwall
  • Sun 4 Aug 201922:00
    BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset & BBC Radio Wiltshire