Do You Remember...THE SUMMER ROCK FESTIVALS & CONCERTS?

From the mid-1970s, outdoor rock music concerts started to be held across Ireland, from Dalymount Park to the greatest of them all - Lisdoonvarna in county Clare.
This photograph shows Boomtown Rats at Dalymount Park in Dublin on August 21st 1977. Other bands on stage on that memorable evening included the 'Radiators from Space' and Thin Lizzy.

It was rumoured at the time that Elvis Costello was to appear at the gig. The story was told that people were to run across the pitch during half time of a GAA match taking place that same afternoon holding banners with the message 'Elvis is playing Dalymount Park'!

But the other Elvis (Presley) had died a few days before the concert. So the publicity stunt was cancelled.