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The 22nd Reading Rock Festival. Richfield
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Iron Maiden onstage at Reading 1982 © Frederick Moulaert |
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Courtesy Robert Axelsson |
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The twenty second festival possibly had a more attractive lineup than 1981, at least if one was a heavy rock devotee. The inclusion of hard rock guitar stalwarts Gary Moore, Randy California, southern rockers Blackfoot and erstwhile pub rockers Dave Edmunds and Wilko Johnson gave the lineup spine that was missing from the previous year. The headliners were also a tad more prestigious. The Scorpions/UFO former lead guitarist Michael Schenker, whose repertoire veered into the sort of metal jazz/rock territory inhabited by Jeff Beck- as well as delivering more predictable hard rock fare -gave Sunday night a touch of class . Budgie and Iron Maiden were guaranteed to deliver an exciting hard rock show, regardless of whether one thought of them as innovators within the genre or not. Maiden's credentials were reinforced by the presence of Bruce Dickinson , the erstwhile Samson lead vocalist , who had taken over the vocal spot from Paul Di'Anno . All three of these artists were recorded by the venerable BBC and broadcast on the Radio One Friday night rock show in 1983 . |
Y & T onstage at Reading 1982 |
Once again, Reading delivered a mid range experience for the punters , no top end acts like Pink Floyd or the Stones which needed a mega crowd to return the organisers a profit, but a solid workmanlike bill that would leave the attendees satisfied in the main . This was what Reading was about at the time, but the formula was about to change , as 1983 would be the last Reading for several years, at long last , the never ending story was about to come to a ( temporary ) stop.
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The site in 1982, as one can see the arena was not full to bursting by any means .... |
This release featured tracks from various years -not just 1982 . |
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Djs :Jackie Lynton, Jerry Floyd
Courtesy Robert Axelsson |
Cheetah © © Frederick Moulaert |
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Twisted Sister © Frederick Moularet |
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Fish of Marillion |
Y& T. |
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Steve Harris of Iron Maiden with his misses backstage and right , treading de boards © Frederick Moulaert
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Setlists and recordings
Audience recordings seem rare for 1982,almost all the sets out here seem to be sourced from BBC fm. If you know of any sets that exist we have missed please send us details.
Friday
Diamond Head 8-27-82
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Randy California 8-27-82
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Praying Mantis 8-27-82
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Budgie 8-27-82
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Saturday
Gary Moore Band 8-28-82
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Looks like this would have been a HOT band Looking for cover of this disc |
Tygers Of Pan Tang 8-28-82
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thanks to Glen Little for setlist |
| Iron Maiden 8-28-82
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Twisted Sister 8-29-82
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Sunday
Marillion 8-29-82
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| Y & T 8-29-82
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Michael Schenker Group 8-29-82
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For this MSG show, vocalist Graham Bonnet had been recently replaced by Gary Barden. Apparently Bonnet had collapsed on stage at a show only days before this recording and Barden was brought back to stand in for the indisposed Bonnett.
Can we get a witness ?
We need more info on this and the other Reading festivals, we are now in the curious situation of having better documentation on some of the earlier festivals, so c'mon headbangers, get yer photos out and fire up whats left of the aging braincells .Send your recollections and scans to us NOW ! !! Contact us
External Links
Reading in the 80s to date- Fat Regs excellent site covers Reading from 1982 onwards .
Photos of Reading in the 80s at the Reading Musuem.
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 date.
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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