Secrets of student gig circuit that shaped bands from The Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin and The Who

Adrian Bogdan

Before stadiums and gold albums, it was a life of broken down vans, fish and chips, and dodgy sound systems. Some of the world’s biggest bands cut their teeth on the student circuit. And a new book, Rock Goes to College, by Paul Sexton, reveals what life was really like on the road at Britain's university gigs. Paul says: "Everybody's got a story, everybody's got a memory of bands they saw. And people are continuing to tell those stories 60 years later. "You're picturing bands who went on to be