IN answer to N Jackson's letter yes, the Rolling Stones did play in York.

It was absolute bedlam, with girls screaming and Mick & Co playing/singing louder.

It was at the Rialto, where Jack Prendergast also brought a lot of other stars to York, including his son, John Barry.

The following are as many as I can recall: The Beatles (twice); Cliff Richard And The Shadows; Billy Fury; Tommy Steele; Gerry And The Pacemakers; Adam Faith; Joe Brown; Marty Wilde; Paul Anka (Diana); Dion (Let's Dance); Gene Vincent (Be-Bop-A-Lula); Wee Willie Harris (with green hair and of Willie and the hand-jive fame); Brenda Lee; Helen Shapiro; Jerry Lee Lewis; Little Richard; Colin Day (Jezebel); Searchers; Guy Mitchell (Singing The Blues); Freddie And The Dreamers; Frankie Vaughan; Brian Poole And The Tremeloes; Alvin Stardust; Wayne Fontana; Del Shannon; Alma Cogan; Ruby Murray; Rosemary Clooney; Dickie Valentine; Long John Baldry; and vocalist Eartha Kitt, who opened her act by being carried on stage on a couch as she sang.

Did Ella Fitzgerald and Satchmo sing? Cleo Laine and John Dankworth? Acker Bilk, The Temperance 7?

Those were the days! Thanks for the memories.

John Hind, Sycamore Terrace, Bootham, York.