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50 anys dels concerts de la Transició. Barcelona, Palau d'Esports
Fifty years on from the 1975-76 Palau d'Esports recitals by Raimon, Lluís Llach and Pi de la Serra, told through photographs, period material and concert footage.
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On 30 October 1975, Raimon played Barcelona's Palau d'Esports with more than a dozen of his songs banned by the censors, and premiered "Jo vinc d'un silenci" anyway. At the interval a statement from the Assemblea de Catalunya was read out. Franco had three weeks left to live, though nobody knew it.
The show follows the six months from the last Francoist executions in September 1975 to Quico Pi de la Serra's concert on 27 February 1976, with Lluís Llach's three January nights in between. You move through photographs by Pilar Aymerich, Manel Armengol and Francesc Fàbregas, original tickets, police reports and Francesc Bellmunt's concert footage, with texts by Joaquim Vilarnau. If someone at home owns the LP Barcelona. Gener de 1976, the tickets for the nights it was recorded are in here.
It is a show of photographs and paper, and it argues against the story of a smooth, peaceful Transition. Entry is free until 15 November, and the museum stays open until 20:00 on Wednesdays.
Look for
The police file on Raimon's recital
Look for the police documentation written after the 30 October 1975 concert, which records the protest in the hall and how the audience reacted.
Tickets for all five concerts
Original tickets from Raimon's night, Llach's three January recitals and Pi de la Serra's February concert, kept from 1975 and 1976.
Photographs from the Palau d'Esports
Pictures by Pilar Aymerich, Manel Armengol and Francesc Fàbregas, who photographed the Transition years and these concerts as they happened.
Francesc Bellmunt's concert footage
Film of the recitals by the director Francesc Bellmunt, the closest you get to being inside the hall.
Raimon in Madrid
The display on February 1976, when the authorities let Raimon play only one of the four Madrid concerts he had planned.
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- 50 anys dels concerts de la Transició. Barcelona, Palau d'EsportsCourtesy of Museu d'Història de Catalunya
- Barcelona Materials: Local Materials for Regenerative ArchitectureCourtesy of Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)
- Disseny en acció. Premis ADG Laus 2026Courtesy of Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del Disseny
- Sim Acquisition, Drawing and WarCourtesy of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
- Museu d'Història de CatalunyaJordiferrer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Moco Museum BarcelonaRolima.moco / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museu Picasso de BarcelonaPere López / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)J Irigoyen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museu Frederic MarèsEnfo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0