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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Prague Spring Festival,
1993(Image: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall)

But it was so popular it carried on, with other artists coming on board, with

music legends like Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, James
Brown, The Who, and Elton John gracing the famous green and yellow big top.

It was originally set up on Kings Dock - on the future site of the M&S Bank

Arena.

Jonathan said: "The great Carl Davis led that whole programme and that

started a whole season that went on and morphed into something bigger with

rock concerts and Elton John performing. It kind of paved the way for the
building of the arena - it's another way the orchestra kind of led an

experiment that led to something that's now a huge asset to the city. You

couldn't make that up."