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Judas Priest: City Hall, Newcastle

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 21 May 1977

KING RIFF rools okay? The two coachloads from Dundee said "Yeaah". The Cop crowd joined saying "okay". But the nice thing about being seen to take notes is that you don't go by mass reaction – people come up and offer their apparently unbidden opinions, generally bellowing in your left ear while you're trying to take in the finer points of a 20,000 watt guitar break with your right.

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