RAINBOW Monsters Of Rock (1980 UK 24 page programme for the Monsters Of Rock festival on 16th August. Promoter Paul Loasby planned a day-long summer festival dedicated specifically to bands from within the heavy rock and metal genre. As he hadbeen promoting the recent Rainbow UK tour he asked them to headline the event. The venue chosen for the event was the Donington Park motor racing circuit at Castle Donington in Leicestershire England where it was held annually for seventeeny ears. This was the very first festival with a line-up consisted of a mix of British and international hard rockers and heavy metal bands including Judas Priest Scorpions April Wine Saxon Riot Touch and Running Wild with 35 000 people att