Admittedly, Kiedis was concerned about the lack of femme rockers on the bill: the only women featured were in British band Lush, who would open each day's festivities before a few hundred curious onlookers.

There's a plaque recently re-erected in Glasgow Queen Street that commemorates the city's suburban electrification bearing the date November 5 1960.

'T would burst ev'n Heraclitus with spleen / To see those antics, Fobling and Courtin: / The Presence seems, with things so richly odd, / The mosque of Mahound, or some queer pagod.

Thanks to Aaron (my main man) Priest...