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08/06/2023
As part of the Manchester Libraries Festival, Mojo's Ed Glinert reveals the most ridiculous and rip-roaring rock n roll revelry stories from the glory days of the Manchester, sorry Madchester, music scene.
On tonight's set-list:
Shaun Ryder
Bez
Moz
Barney
Mark E. Smith
The Gallaghers
and those are just the warm-up act!
Did you see Oppenheimer, the blockbuster, Oscar-winning film about the atom bomb, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945?
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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