Bad Company Eat Up The Road On Their First American Tour
Ron Ross, Circus, December 1974
THERE WAS THE TIME veteran road manager Clive Coulson saved Led Zeppelin from a stadium riot in Milan, Italy. "Zeppelin was the only English band on a long bill padded with bad Italian groups. The audience got restless, started standing on chairs, and throwing things at the Italians onstage. Just as Zeppelin came on the lights went out, and next thing we saw was a ring of soldiers lining the arena.
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