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On this day, 7 September 1980, Irish musician, singer, and songwriter Rory Gallagher played Cardiff’s Top Rank.
He was about to release his eleventh album Stage Stuck later in the month. It documents his world tour in support of his 1979 album Top Priority. Accordingly, it features many songs from that album, but it also includes songs from his previous albums.
The album sees Gallagher taking a faster-paced, more hard rock sound than on his previous blues-dominated live albums. Originally released with eight tracks, Stage Struck was augmented with two bonus tracks ("Bad Penny" and "Keychain") when reissued in 1999, four years after Gallagher's death, by his younger brother and manager, Dónal Gallagher.
