1975

	DATES
	1975
	17th January		“The Warner Bothers Music Show” with The Doobie Brothers, Montrose
	18th January		“The Warner Bothers Music Show” with The Doobie Brothers, Tower Of Power, Bonaroo
	19th January		“The Warner Bothers Music Show” Afternoon show - The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat Evening show - The Doobie Brothers, Graham Central Station
			Little Feat upstage everyone with rave reviews




	10th February		The Bothy Band
	15th February		Dr. Feelgood, Chillie Willie & The Red Hot Peppers, Kokomo
			The Naughty Rhythms Tour

	16th February		Baker-Gurvitz Army, Strife
	17th February		Soft Machine, Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House
	21st February		Black Oak Arkansas, Sassafrass
	26th February		Chuck Berry,Maxin, DJ Bob Stewart
	28th February		The Edgar Broughton Band, Dave Ellis


	1st March		Return to Forever, Zzebra

	8th March		Suzi Quatro, Cozy Powell's Hammer, The Arrows Featuring acts on RAK Records

	9th March		Caravan, Renaissance

	15th		Andy Fraser Group,
	March		Mike Heron's Reputation

	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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