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“OUR 35 MINUTES ON-STAGE

FELT LIKE 30 SECONDS, BUT

IT WAS MAGICAL.”

92 PLANET ROCK

Stand up and be counted:

Saxon’s Paul Quinn, Biff

Byford and (far right) Pete Gill

prepare for their Donington

debut; (top, left) Riot’s Guy

Speranza salutes the MOR

crowd; (left) Scorpions’ Rudolf

Schenker riffs out.

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