Judas Priest: The Starwood, Los Angeles
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 21 April 1979
THIRD NIGHT at the Starwood and they're still packing them in. Limbs flailing through the dry ice that fills the stand-up section in imaginary guitar solos, the few girls creaming at the Aryan airline pilot let loose in a leather shop standing on the stage in a flagellatory pose.
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