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The Fifteenth National Jazz ,Blues and Rock Festival.
Richfield Avenue. 
Reading 
August 22-24th 1975.


Recordings of the 1975 festival.


Judas Priest

8-22-75 Reading Festival Tape 45min SDB A .

  • Victim of Changes 07:54
  • Dream Deceiver 05:36
  • Deceiver 02:42
  • The Ripper 02:51
  • Mother Sun 09:36
  • Island of Domination / Guitar Solo 08:02
  • Genocide 05:46
  • Rocka Rolla 3:05

An excellent quality soundboard which is for sale on the net - presumably a legit release.

A 55 min audience tape also exists - reportedly of B quality

Caravan

8-24-75 Reading Festival

  • The Show Of Our Lives
  • Memory Lain,
  • Hugh Headloss
  • The Dabsong Conshirtoe
  • The Love In Your Eyes
    No indication of length of show or quality, but this was a bootleg.

Hawkwind

8-22-75

  • Mind Journey
  • Assault and Battery
  • Golden Void
  • Ode To A Crystal Set,
  • Psychadelic Warlords
  • Wind Of Change
  • The Awakening
  • Paradox,
  • Spiral Galaxy 28948
  • Sonic Attack
  • Magnu
  • Opa Loka
  • Master Of The Universe
  • Welcome To The Future
  • Brainstorm
  • Silver Machine
     

Soft Machine

Audience. 40 mins ,quality very good

Thin Lizzy

8-23-75     53:00 mins

  • Fighting
  • It's Only Money
  • Kings Vengeance
  • Still In Love With You
  • Showdown
  • Suicide
  • Rosalie
  • The Rocker
  • Sha-La-La
  • Baby Drives Me Crazy
  • Me and the Boys
  • Whisky In The Jar

 

Yes

    8-23-75

 
  • Firebird Suite
  • Soundchaser
  • Close To The Edge
  • To Be Over
  • High Vibration
  • The Gates Of Delirium
  • Leaves Of Green
  • Your Move/Mood For A Day
  • Long Distance Runaround/Moraz Solo
  • Clap
  • And You And I
  • Ritual
  • Roundabout
  • Sweet Dreams

 

A page of comments about Yes and their performance at the 1975 National Jazz and Blues festival can be found here

Dr Feelgood Setlist (taken from a review, unlikely recording exists)


1975 festival pages and links


The early festivals.

You can find out the complete line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below ,as well as new information recently received in 2004 .
 
  1961
1962
1963
1964

Festivals 65-83

Most of these have fairly complete documentation .But new contributions of any sort are always welcome regarding any of the festivals.
Richmond 1965
Windsor 1966
 Windsor 1967
Sunbury 1968
Plumpton 1969
Plumpton 1970
Reading 1971
Reading 1972
Reading 1973
Reading 1974

 

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