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Simple Minds, Silent Running: Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow

Betty Page, Record Mirror, 17 March 1984

BARROWLANDS, THOUGH tacky and well-worn, certainly has a sense of history about it. Twenty years ago. The Stones played here on a minuscule stage. Ten years ago it was the hunting ground of a notorious strangler known as 'Bible John', and because he was never caught, the place fell from grace. But now it, and The Minds, are back...

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