10 Greatest Music Gigs You Wish You Could Have Been At
5. Stone Roses - Spike Island
When The Stone Roses played Spike Island in 1990 it was as a band at the very peak of their powers; they could do no wrong. The fact was they could have played anywhere, Knebworth, Wembley or any other established mega venue. What they chose instead was the site of a reclaimed toxic waste dump - a deliberate statement that they were not just going to play by all the old music biz rules.
With an audience of 30,000, plenty of fans had the chance to be there for this pivotal moment in the band's history, but with very little in the way of footage and poorly recorded audio bootlegs available, only those who were actually there will know how great this was.
There have been criticisms of the organisation of the event, the sound quality and even the band's performance, but as anyone who has been to one of those 'special moment in time events', all that you remember is the magical feeling of being present at something you will cherish forever. An event that will 'Live Forever'.