Rory Gallagher: Apollo Theatre, Glasgow
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 22 April 1978
RITUAL IS wonderful for those taking an active part in it, but almost totally meaningless to a dispassionate observer. So that's why I got more amusement out of Rory Gallagher's last-minute charter flight/police-escorted dash to the Apollo show than from the actual concert itself.
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