Jethro Tull: City Hall, Newcastle
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 February 1977
YOU KNOW how supergroups are supposed to open the show with the '1812 Overture' complete with real facsimile nineteenth-century Muscovite cannon and a battallion of the Green Howards rented for the day to pose as Napoleon's army (all marching on their stomachs for authenticity)?
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