The Four Tops - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 2-24-1989

I've only come across one concert the Four Tops did for the BBC. Perhaps one or more will come along, and I'll be forced to rename this one. But for now, here it is.

I would prefer if this concert took place earlier in their career. But 1989 isn't a bad time, because they had hits right up until then. The band had some lean years in the late 1970s and much of the 1980s, many of them with no hits, or only minor hits. But they did occasionally have a bit hit, such as "When She Was My Girl" in 1981, which just missed the Top Ten in the U.S. and made it to Number Three in Britain. They also had a big hit with "Loco in Acapulco," which was co-written by Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier, of the great Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team for Motown Records. In 1988, that song missed the Top 100 entirely in the U.S., but it made the Top Ten in Britain. Another song from that same year, "Indestructible," did make the Top Forty in the U.S., as well as in Britain.

The year of 1989 is also a good time for a concert recording, because it was the effective end of the band as a creative entity. They only released one more album after this, in 1995, and it consisted of covers of Christmas songs. It's also great that the band still consisted of all four original members at this point. That would continue until one of the members died in 1997.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is pretty good, though not great. One problem was that the vocals were low in the mix. So I fixed that by running all the songs through the UVR5 program, and adjusting the balance. 

This album is 31 minutes long.

01 Reach Out, I'll Be There [Instrumental Version] (Four Tops)
02 Loco in Acapulco (Four Tops)
03 7 Rooms of Gloom (Four Tops)
04 When She Was My Girl (Four Tops)
05 Bernadette (Four Tops)
06 Mean Green Mother from Outer Space - Bernadette [Reprise] (Four Tops)
07 Walk Away Renee (Four Tops)
08 Reach Out, I'll Be There - Standing in the Shadows of Love - I Can't Help Myself (Four Tops)
09 Indestructible (Four Tops) 

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The cover photo is from a TV show appearance in Hof, Germany on March 4, 1989.