One thing about BBC concerts is that it's sometimes hard to tell if a given show is from the BBC or not. People don't always keep track of the source, other than marking that it's "FM" if it's from a radio show. In this case, I didn't notice it until the last minute because it's closely related to, yet different from, one of the band's official live albums, "Heart Still Beating." It turns out that the BBC videotaped the band's 1982 concert in Frejus, France, and broadcast that on BBC TV. It later came out on VHS as a show apparently called "The High Road," which also was the name of the band's 1982 tour as a whole. Years later, that came out as the album "Heart Still Beating." However, the song order was mixed up, and some of the songs came from a concert in Glasgow, Britain, as well.
I found the original video, which shows just the Frejus concert in whole, with all the songs in the correct order. I then converted that to audio and broke it into mp3s. There was a slight problem though. I found the lead vocals were low in the mix, and an analysis in the Audacity program confirmed that. So I remixed all the songs using the MVSEP program, specifically boosting the lead vocals relative to the instruments.
There was one other thing that I didn't like about the Frejus concert. Namely, that the song "More than This" wasn't included. That's my favorite Roxy Music song of all time. I thought for sure that would be included, because it was on the band's 1982 album "Avalon," which the tour was promoting, and it was the biggest hit from that album. But it turns out that for the entire tour, the band only played the song one time.
I found a way to include it though, although it's a bit sneaky. It turns out there's an excellent sounding bootleg of the band's tour rehearsal, which took place some time in the summer of 1982. That also included a cover of the Byrds classic "Eight Miles High," which was never performed during the tour. So I added those two at the end. I even patched in some cheering at the end of both songs to make them sound like a continuation of the concert. I think it makes a fitting end. It would have made perfect sense for the band to play "More than This" as the final encore, since it was their most recent big hit.
This album is an hour and 23 minutes long. Without the two extra songs at the end, it's an hour and 13 minutes.
01 The Main Thing (Roxy Music)
02 Out of the Blue (Roxy Music)
03 talk (Roxy Music)
04 Both Ends Burning (Roxy Music)
05 A Song for Europe (Roxy Music)
06 Can't Let Go (Roxy Music)
07 While My Heart Is Still Beating (Roxy Music)
08 Avalon (Roxy Music)
09 My Only Love (Roxy Music)
10 Dance Away (Roxy Music)
11 Love Is the Drug (Roxy Music)
12 Like a Hurricane (Roxy Music)
13 Editions of You (Roxy Music)
14 talk (Roxy Music)
15 Do the Strand (Roxy Music)
16 Jealous Guy (Roxy Music)
17 Eight Miles High (Roxy Music)
18 More than This (Roxy Music)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/QPWuo1Hv
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/ycMF5Z3jdCfluMh/file
The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from the video.
Thanks for the awesome Roxy post.
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