Turning back the clock back 30 years to the best of fests

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Exactly 30 years ago, 20,000 music fans flocked to Lanarkshire’s Strathclyde Park for what was the birth of T in the Park – then, Scotland’s biggest-ever pop festival.A weekend ticket to the inaugural T in the Park in 1994, bought from the iconic Virgin Megastore on Glasgow’s Union Street, set revellers back £43 – top dollar, back in the day.But thousands of cheeky music lovers turned the extravaganza into FREE in the Park by pitching tents in the festival’s car park to enjoy the tunes for free.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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