How long a list do you want or can you stand? Better not to go there really but
Stones anywhere , but probably St James Park early 80's -could have gone but didn't and can't remember why. Stones were old news then.
Dire Straits -anywhere
Any of the many half decent punk era bands esp. Rezillos ,Undertones, Stranglers.
ELO- dismissed by many but a big item in the late 70's.
For real time travel-Glenn Miller Orchestra or Ted Heath(the big band not the politician ).
In our teens,reading the NME was about as close as most of us got to the music scene as we were either financially challenged, not just for the ticket but the cost of travelling the n x100 miles to get anywhere, and then time challenged as to where we could get to anyway.
Factor in work , mortgage and discovering cycling after leaving uni and that doesn't leave time or money for gigging.