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The Reading Rock Festival.
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Reading August 22-24th 1980. |
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Reading Rock Photogallery 6
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Whispering Bob Harris spins a few Des O'Connor discs for the assembled multitude © Paul Rushmer |
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The late lamented Rory Gallagher © Paul Rushmer |
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White Spirit © Paul Rushmer It
was 30 years ago this bank holiday weekend myself and friends went
to the Reading rock festival. We talked with fond memeories of the
event and did a search for photos etc. |
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Krokus © Paul Rushmer |
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Der crowd © Paul Rushmer |
Angelwitch © Paul Rushmer |
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The Roofdude © Paul Rushmer |
Reading 1980 pages
Thanks to photographer Alan Perry for allowing us to use his excellent photos of Reading 1980, you can purchase copies of these pix at his website where he has oodles of top photos of metal bands from the 70s to the 80s
The early festivals.
You can find out the complete line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below .
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Festivals 1965-1990
Most of these have fairly complete documentation .But new contributions of any sort are always welcome regarding any of the festivals.
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