Back Street Crawler: City Hall, Newcastle
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 6 December 1975
IT WAS a fairly complete emotional experience watching Back Street Crawler at the City Hall. You wondered where performance ended and real life began. Was it the birth and death of a great band all within a couple of hours?
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