February 15, 1975 Palasport, Rome, ITY

In Rome, where we return to recover the missed concert, it is worse. The radical group of Alternative Press incites to civil disobedience to pay the ticket and distributes flyers against "the masters of music". There are scuffles and fights already at the entrance, Branduardi starts among the whistles then, when he is about to climb Lou Reed, from the top of the steps begins to rain all over. At that point to go on stage are the carabinieri, who are starting to shoot bunches of tear gas on the public. Panic and general fuggi-escape

Police and Carabinieri have repeatedly loaded with the jeeps inside the Palasport and outside. The clashes continued until the early hours of Sunday. The director of «Alternative Press», Marcello Baraghini, asked the magistrate on duty to carry out analyzes of the urine of agents and carabinieri in the hypothesis that, without their knowledge, they had been administered «psychostimulant substances». This morning at the radical rally for abortion, signatures were collected for a criminal complaint against the heads of the local police station "for attempted murder, attempted massacre and seditious demonstration". A telegram was sent to the Minister of the Interior Gui, to request the suspension of the leaders of the police station and the police chief of Rome (...)

Who are the provocateurs? "Il Messaggero" of today speaks of recognized neo-fascists. «Time» indicates them as «left-minded». The same newspaper observes, then, that the work of police and carabinieri is censurable and questionable: firing tear gas from above against an audience of six thousand-seven thousand people crowded below has caused panic and scenes of terror. The damage to the Palasport exceeds one hundred million.

(La Stampa, 17/2/1975)