Neil Aspinall, who has died of cancer aged 66, was the Beatles' original roadie, the man who drove them from gig to gig, setting up their equipment on the stages of clubs and halls in the days before Love Me Do, Please Please Me and She Loves You catapulted them first to national fame and then to international superstardom.
At one gig set up by a friend in a more upscale club, "the management asked me to stop, as my set bhangra and breakcore mashups would 'bring in foreigners.'".
Kanye will premiere the album in full at Madison Square Gardens in New York on the night of its release, with the gig set to be live-streamed in cinemas around the world including by UK cinema chain Vue.
I really didn't want to lug my laptop out to a gig and set it on top of my amp that's just not very "rock and roll".
Although she recently accepted a Disney gig set to make her the first black woman to direct a $100m movie, DuVernay understandably suspects that a single setback could see her career flounder in a way that a white, male counterpart's might not.
In honour of drummer AJ Pero, who died in March 2015, Twisted Sister have announced a couple of farewell gigs set for May and June next year.
Get involved with regional competitions, local gigs, set up a brass quintet with some friends, etc. Don't be afraid to make it big when the time comes to make a big decision, such as applying for music school.
The Libertines' early guerilla gigs set the precedent for every awful T-Mobile-sponsored zany cuntfest your lame friends from school post on Facebook.
You can watch a gig and help set the scene, but description and repetition are more closely linked in comedy than in almost any other medium.
They include "Web sites with empty pages" and "bands that show up for a gig, play their set and then pack up and leave, taking all their friends with them -- and often loading out while another band is playing".
