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Hillsborough and the Liverpool music community, April 1989

A strange, sad time of extraordinary solidarity

Penny Kiley
Apr 14, 2023
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A newspaper headline reading: A city weeps for its lost friends.
Headline from the Liverpool Echo, Monday April 24,1989

Everyone from Liverpool (who wasn’t directly involved) remembers where they were when they heard about the Hillsborough disaster. (Our corner shop on Smithdown Road, confused reports coming out of the radio.)

It was a strange, sad time and the solidarity over the days that followed was extraordinary.…

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