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| 1st January | Kate & Anna McGarrigle |
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| 17th January | “The Warner Bothers Music Show” with The Doobie Brothers, Montrose |  |
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| 18th January | “The Warner Bothers Music Show” with The Doobie Brothers, Tower Of Power, Bonaroo |  |
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| 19th January | “The Warner Bothers Music
Show” Afternoon show - The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat Evening show - The Doobie Brothers, Graham Central Station |
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| Little Feat upstage everyone with rave reviews | |||||||
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| 10th February | The Bothy Band |  |
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| 15th February | Dr. Feelgood, Chillie Willie & The Red Hot Peppers, Kokomo The Naughty Rhythms Tour |
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| 16th February | Baker-Gurvitz Army, Strife |  |
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| 17th February | Soft Machine, Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House |  |
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| 21st February | Black Oak Arkansas, Sassafrass |  |
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| 26th February | Chuck Berry,Maxin, DJ Bob Stewart |  |
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| 28th February | The Edgar Broughton Band, Dave Ellis |  |
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| 1st March | Return To Forever with Chick Corea, Zzebra |  |
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| 8th March | Suzi Quatro, Cozy Powell's Hammer, The Arrows Featuring acts on RAK Records |
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| 9th March | Caravan, Renaissance |  |
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| 15th March | Mike Heron's Reputation, The Andy Fraser Group | ||||||
| 16th March | Procol Harum, Richard & Linda Thompson, Sassafras, Frankie Miller, Kevin Coyne, John Martyn and Hatfield & The North | ||||||
| This turns out to be the Closing Show as the theatre runs into money trouble again. Biffo were faced with a bill for £180,000 to keep the building in a preserved state. Biffo claimed that they had spent £60,000 on repairs to the building. | |||||||
| Chrysalis releases an album commemorated the passing of The Rainbow Theatre as a rock venue, and included a live rendition of "Saviour", by Kevin Coyne (with Archie Leggatt and Andy Summers), and a longer, but still annoyingly truncated live edit of "Halfway Between Heaven and Earth", than that included on Hatfield and the North's posthumous LP, "Afters". The back sleeve of "Afters" includes a small note from a Japanese fan about the Rainbow gig, claiming that their performance had, "...made my heart a prisoner." | |||||||
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