The full text of the “Scottish Daily Mail” article, dated Saturday 11 June 1960, photographed above reads as follows:

Rock’n’Roll Riot.  Police draw their batons as 2,000 screaming teenagers and drunken youths stop show.  Bottles and ashtrays fly in Glasgow Empire.  
Two thousand screaming, shouting teenagers rioted in Glasgow’s Empire Theatre during a Rock’n’Roll show last night.  More than fifty police, called from all over the city, raced to the theatre as ash trays and bottles smashed on the stage during the latter part of the performance - “A Tribute to Eddie Cochran”.

Police inspectors, sergeants and constables, with batons drawn, fought furious teenagers and drunken Teddy boys inside the theatre, up and down West Nile Street and in Sauchiehall Street.  Said one senior police officer “I have never seen anything like this before.  We have had screaming and shouting kids outside the theatre - but this was murder.  It amazes me that no-one was seriously injured.

Last night was a double tragedy for the star of the show Gene Vincent.  For earlier in the day, just before he appeared at the matinee, he was told that his infant daughter had died at his home in America.