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The Selling Of Reading Festival

Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 30 August 1975

THE SUN was westering in a haze of towering cumulus, fire-orange against midnight black, filling the still air with speckled light, as we came over the Borgo Pass and into the secret valley. The very hoofbeats of the horses seemed strangely muffled.

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