Chords for Reading And Leeds - Ultimate Guide
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For true music fans, Reading and Leeds is the [Gbm] king of festivals.
It [D] attracts the biggest bands and draws the best performances from them.
With little in the way of frills, gimmicks or distractions, it really is all about the music.
And [Gbm] that's why tens of [D] thousands descend on the two sites year after year.
This is the ultimate guide to Reading and Leeds.
[Gbm] Given [D] [Ab] that it's now synonymous with rock, it's [Em] hard to believe Reading and Leeds [D] began life as the National Jazz Festival in [Ab] 1961.
Back then, it didn't even take place in Reading, but rather Richmond, [E] southwest London.
It was [G] the brainchild of Harold [D] Pendleton, founder of Soho's legendary Marquee Club,
who gradually moved [G] it down the Thames until it settled in Reading in 1971.
The 70s saw heavy-duty rock acts dominate the bill, with headliners including Rory Gallagher, [D] The Faces, Traffic and Hawkwind,
before the organisers saw sense and renamed the festival [Ab] Reading Rock in [D] 1976.
The new breed arrived in 1978 when The Jam and Patti Smith [G] headlined,
but older acts [D] like Thin Lizzy and Black [Ab] Sabbath kept coming back until the festival was plunged into turmoil in the [G] mid-80s.
Reading went bankrupt in [N] 1988, and the owner of it then, a guy called Harold Pendleton,
and he was sort of punting around for a promoter to work with that had got better contacts in music,
and nobody was interested, none of the big promoters were interested, and Vince said he'd have a go,
and me and this mate of mine went and saw Vince and said,
we know about festivals and we [D] know about selling beer and we want to sell the beer at Reading and we want to get involved,
and that's it, that's how it happened.
Beginning with [A] New Order and The Post, Reading started [E] to put on the kind of leading indie rock names that have cemented its reputation ever since.
[D]
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The next big change came in 1999, when [D] increasing demand persuaded the festival to take on a new site at Temple Newsome in Leeds.
We started Leeds in [G] 1999, and I was shitting myself.
[E] What you don't know is whether people say, OK, great, I don't have to go so far now,
so you end up with 25,000 here in Reading and 25,000 in Leeds, and you're buggered,
because now you've got two [D] festivals and neither of them are full.
As it [A] happened, it worked better, and then we moved to Bramham [D] Park,
and [A] two wonderful [D] people that own Bramham Park, who'd just been
I think Blair might have been one of the first acts that we had there,
so they thought Tony Blair was coming.
They got to realise pretty quickly [N] that actually it was the likes of Metallica that were going to turn up and ask for a cup of tea.
[D] Within a couple of years, the [Am] two festival sites had settled on a system [C] of alternating bills, which has survived to this day.
[Am]
[F]
[C] Something's filled up [A]
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For true music fans, Reading and Leeds is the [Gbm] king of festivals.
It [D] attracts the biggest bands and draws the best performances from them.
With little in the way of frills, gimmicks or distractions, it really is all about the music.
And [Gbm] that's why tens of [D] thousands descend on the two sites year after year.
This is the ultimate guide to Reading and Leeds.
[Gbm] Given [D] [Ab] that it's now synonymous with rock, it's [Em] hard to believe Reading and Leeds [D] began life as the National Jazz Festival in [Ab] 1961.
Back then, it didn't even take place in Reading, but rather Richmond, [E] southwest London.
It was [G] the brainchild of Harold [D] Pendleton, founder of Soho's legendary Marquee Club,
who gradually moved [G] it down the Thames until it settled in Reading in 1971.
The 70s saw heavy-duty rock acts dominate the bill, with headliners including Rory Gallagher, [D] The Faces, Traffic and Hawkwind,
before the organisers saw sense and renamed the festival [Ab] Reading Rock in [D] 1976.
The new breed arrived in 1978 when The Jam and Patti Smith [G] headlined,
but older acts [D] like Thin Lizzy and Black [Ab] Sabbath kept coming back until the festival was plunged into turmoil in the [G] mid-80s.
Reading went bankrupt in [N] 1988, and the owner of it then, a guy called Harold Pendleton,
and he was sort of punting around for a promoter to work with that had got better contacts in music,
and nobody was interested, none of the big promoters were interested, and Vince said he'd have a go,
and me and this mate of mine went and saw Vince and said,
we know about festivals and we [D] know about selling beer and we want to sell the beer at Reading and we want to get involved,
and that's it, that's how it happened.
Beginning with [A] New Order and The Post, Reading started [E] to put on the kind of leading indie rock names that have cemented its reputation ever since.
[D]
[G] [D]
[G]
The next big change came in 1999, when [D] increasing demand persuaded the festival to take on a new site at Temple Newsome in Leeds.
We started Leeds in [G] 1999, and I was shitting myself.
[E] What you don't know is whether people say, OK, great, I don't have to go so far now,
so you end up with 25,000 here in Reading and 25,000 in Leeds, and you're buggered,
because now you've got two [D] festivals and neither of them are full.
As it [A] happened, it worked better, and then we moved to Bramham [D] Park,
and [A] two wonderful [D] people that own Bramham Park, who'd just been
I think Blair might have been one of the first acts that we had there,
so they thought Tony Blair was coming.
They got to realise pretty quickly [N] that actually it was the likes of Metallica that were going to turn up and ask for a cup of tea.
[D] Within a couple of years, the [Am] two festival sites had settled on a system [C] of alternating bills, which has survived to this day.
[Am]
[F]
[C] Something's filled up [A]
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ For true music fans, Reading and Leeds is the [Gbm] king of festivals.
It [D] attracts the biggest bands and draws the best performances from them.
With little in the way of frills, gimmicks or distractions, it really is all about the music.
And [Gbm] that's why tens of [D] thousands descend on the two sites year after year.
This is the ultimate guide to Reading and Leeds.
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] Given _ [D] _ _ [Ab] that it's now synonymous with rock, it's [Em] hard to believe Reading and Leeds [D] began life as the National Jazz Festival in [Ab] 1961.
Back then, it didn't even take place in Reading, but rather Richmond, [E] southwest London.
It was [G] the brainchild of Harold [D] Pendleton, founder of Soho's legendary Marquee Club,
who gradually moved [G] it down the Thames until it settled in Reading in 1971.
The 70s saw heavy-duty rock acts dominate the bill, with headliners including Rory Gallagher, [D] The Faces, Traffic and Hawkwind,
before the organisers saw sense and renamed the festival [Ab] Reading Rock in [D] 1976.
The new breed arrived in 1978 when The Jam and Patti Smith [G] headlined,
but older acts [D] like Thin Lizzy and Black [Ab] Sabbath kept coming back until the festival was plunged into turmoil in the [G] mid-80s.
Reading went bankrupt in [N] _ 1988, _ and the owner of it then, a guy called Harold Pendleton,
and he was sort of punting around for a promoter to work with that had got better contacts in music,
and nobody was interested, none of the big promoters were interested, and Vince said he'd have a go,
and _ me and this mate of mine went and saw Vince and said,
we know about festivals and we [D] know about selling beer and we want to sell the beer at Reading and we want to get involved,
and that's it, that's how it happened.
Beginning with [A] New Order and The Post, Reading started [E] to put on the kind of leading indie rock names that have cemented its reputation ever since.
_ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ The next big change came in 1999, when [D] increasing demand persuaded the festival to take on a new site at Temple Newsome in Leeds.
We started Leeds in [G] 1999, and I was shitting myself.
[E] What you don't know is whether people say, OK, great, I don't have to go so far now,
so you end up with 25,000 here in Reading and 25,000 in Leeds, and you're buggered,
because now you've got two [D] festivals and neither of them are full.
As it [A] happened, it worked better, and then we moved to Bramham [D] Park,
and [A] two wonderful [D] people that own Bramham Park, who'd just been_
_ I think Blair might have been one of the first acts that we had there,
so they thought Tony Blair was coming.
_ They got to realise pretty quickly [N] that actually it was the likes of Metallica that were going to turn up and ask for a cup of tea. _
_ [D] Within a couple of years, the [Am] two festival sites had settled on a system [C] of alternating bills, which has survived to this day.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ Something's _ _ filled up [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ For true music fans, Reading and Leeds is the [Gbm] king of festivals.
It [D] attracts the biggest bands and draws the best performances from them.
With little in the way of frills, gimmicks or distractions, it really is all about the music.
And [Gbm] that's why tens of [D] thousands descend on the two sites year after year.
This is the ultimate guide to Reading and Leeds.
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] Given _ [D] _ _ [Ab] that it's now synonymous with rock, it's [Em] hard to believe Reading and Leeds [D] began life as the National Jazz Festival in [Ab] 1961.
Back then, it didn't even take place in Reading, but rather Richmond, [E] southwest London.
It was [G] the brainchild of Harold [D] Pendleton, founder of Soho's legendary Marquee Club,
who gradually moved [G] it down the Thames until it settled in Reading in 1971.
The 70s saw heavy-duty rock acts dominate the bill, with headliners including Rory Gallagher, [D] The Faces, Traffic and Hawkwind,
before the organisers saw sense and renamed the festival [Ab] Reading Rock in [D] 1976.
The new breed arrived in 1978 when The Jam and Patti Smith [G] headlined,
but older acts [D] like Thin Lizzy and Black [Ab] Sabbath kept coming back until the festival was plunged into turmoil in the [G] mid-80s.
Reading went bankrupt in [N] _ 1988, _ and the owner of it then, a guy called Harold Pendleton,
and he was sort of punting around for a promoter to work with that had got better contacts in music,
and nobody was interested, none of the big promoters were interested, and Vince said he'd have a go,
and _ me and this mate of mine went and saw Vince and said,
we know about festivals and we [D] know about selling beer and we want to sell the beer at Reading and we want to get involved,
and that's it, that's how it happened.
Beginning with [A] New Order and The Post, Reading started [E] to put on the kind of leading indie rock names that have cemented its reputation ever since.
_ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ The next big change came in 1999, when [D] increasing demand persuaded the festival to take on a new site at Temple Newsome in Leeds.
We started Leeds in [G] 1999, and I was shitting myself.
[E] What you don't know is whether people say, OK, great, I don't have to go so far now,
so you end up with 25,000 here in Reading and 25,000 in Leeds, and you're buggered,
because now you've got two [D] festivals and neither of them are full.
As it [A] happened, it worked better, and then we moved to Bramham [D] Park,
and [A] two wonderful [D] people that own Bramham Park, who'd just been_
_ I think Blair might have been one of the first acts that we had there,
so they thought Tony Blair was coming.
_ They got to realise pretty quickly [N] that actually it was the likes of Metallica that were going to turn up and ask for a cup of tea. _
_ [D] Within a couple of years, the [Am] two festival sites had settled on a system [C] of alternating bills, which has survived to this day.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ Something's _ _ filled up [A] _ _ _ _ _