Grateful Dead: Rainbow Theatre, London
Richard Cook, NME, 10 October 1981
IT MUST be a resurrection year if the San Franciscan pensioners come over twice to play. No danger of saturation for the faithful, though. Saturday night saw the Rainbow sold out and bursting with the dogged followers of Uncle John's Band.
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