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Harry Shapiro

"We got mobbed for autographs – thousands of screaming schoolgirls and we had to escape in a limo": the wild ride of Pacific Gas & Electric

Pacific Gas & Electric

It’s December 1968 and Pacific Gas & Electric have made the front page of the Miami Herald, and are being lauded by The New York Times as being “among the best and most underexposed talent in the country”. 

At the Miami Pop Festival, of all the rock talent on show – Paul Butterfield, Joni Mitchell, Booker T, Chuck Berry and more – and in front of 80,000 people, it was this hard-driving, multi-racial, muscular blues-rock band that blew the crowd away. 

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