Gallagher & Lyle - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Sight and Sound, Aylesbury Civic Hall, Aylesbury, Britain, 3-2-1978

Here's a second and final BBC album from the singer-songwriter duo Gallagher and Lyle. 

In the early 1970s, Gallagher and Lyle wrote a couple of hits when they were members of the band McGuinness Flint. They went solo as a duo in late 1971. They didn't have much success for a few years. But then they broke through with their 1976 album "Breakaway," which contained three hits in Britain, "Heart on My Sleeve," "I Wanna Stay with You," and "Breakaway." Then, in 1977, they had a minor hit with "Every Little Teardrop." Curiously, this doesn't include "Every Little Teardrop," but it does include their other three hits, plus "When I'm Dead and Gone," which was a big hit they wrote for McGuinness Flint in 1970.

To be honest, I've found three other Gallagher and Lyle BBC concerts. I included a few songs from them on the "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" album. But I don't plan on posting them, as I don't think there would be much demand. Besides, this one is the longest and the best, since it happened after they had their big success in 1976.

Five of the songs here were released on the official album "Live in Concert." Those are tracks 2, 7, 8, 13, and 19. Everything else is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 You're the One (Gallagher & Lyle)
02 Hurts to Learn (Gallagher & Lyle)
03 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
04 Breakaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
05 All Grown Up (Gallagher & Lyle)
06 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
07 Throwaway Heart (Gallagher & Lyle)
08 Next to You (Gallagher & Lyle)
09 Fifteen Summers (Gallagher & Lyle)
10 Stay Young (Gallagher & Lyle)
11 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
12 The Runaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
13 Showdown (Gallagher & Lyle)
14 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
15 I Wanna Stay with You (Gallagher & Lyle)
16 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
17 Heart on My Sleeve (Gallagher & Lyle)
18 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
19 When I'm Dead and Gone (Gallagher & Lyle) 

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I don't know any details of the cover photo. But it obviously was taken in the 1970s. 

Gallagher & Lyle - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1978

I recently posted a couple of BBC albums by the British band McGuinness Flint. I pointed out at that time that most of their success was due to the songwriting talent of two members in that band, Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle, better known as Gallagher and Lyle. In late 1971, they left McGuinness Flint and began a music career as a duo. Here's the BBC studio sessions they left behind. 

Gallagher and Lyle wrote the two big hits McGuinness Flint had, "When I'm Dead and Gone" and "Malt and Barley Blues." But they didn't have much success on their own at first. Their first big success came in 1975, when Art Garfunkel had a Top Forty hit in the U.S. with a song they wrote, "Breakaway." (Their own version is included here.) Then, in 1976, they had Top Ten hits in Britain with "Heart on My Sleeve" and "I Wanna Stay with You." Their success petered out towards the end of the 1970s, and they broke up in 1980. But they continued to have some success as songwriters after that. Most notably, Lyle co-wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It?" which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Tina Turner in 1984.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

Gallagher and Lyle - Wikipedia 

This album is all from BBC sources, and mostly consists of studio sessions. The first seven songs are from the BBC radio show "Top of the Pops" (and not the BBC TV show of the same name). These are from the same helper who gave me access to lots of other stuff from this show. I don't know if these have been easily publicly available before. Those date from 1971 and 1972. The next four songs come from the officially released album "Live in Concert," and are from a BBC concert in 1973. Then tracks 12, 13, and 14 are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show in 1973. Tracks 15 and 16 are from another BBC concert in 1974, and also made it to the "Live in Concert" album. Then tracks 17 and 18 are from another appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show, in 1976. Finally, the last three tracks are from another on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show, in 1978.

For the live tracks from the "Live in Concert" album, I used the MVSEP program to get rid of the applause, so they'd fit in with the other studio tracks. The "Old Grey Whistle Test" songs were performed live, but without an audience.

There's a BBC concert from 1978 that I will be posting as well. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 Desiderata (Gallagher & Lyle)
02 Comfort and Joy (Gallagher & Lyle)
03 City and Suburban Blues (Gallagher & Lyle)
04 Home (Gallagher & Lyle)
05 Among the Birks (Gallagher & Lyle)
06 Give the Boy a Break (Gallagher & Lyle)
07 Joie de Vivre [The Great Australian Dream] (Gallagher & Lyle)
08 Conversation (Gallagher & Lyle)
09 Willie (Gallagher & Lyle)
10 Thoughts from a Station (Gallagher & Lyle)
11 International (Gallagher & Lyle)
12 Shine a Light (Gallagher & Lyle)
13 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
14 I Believe in You (Gallagher & Lyle)
15 Seeds (Gallagher & Lyle)
16 The Clearing (Gallagher & Lyle)
17 Breakaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
18 I Wanna Stay with You (Gallagher & Lyle)
19 Showdown (Gallagher & Lyle)
20 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
21 Throw Away Heart (Gallagher & Lyle) 

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https://bestfile.io/en/o0zLJ4Pd7AXTgbV/file

That's Lyle on the left and Gallagher on the right. 

McGuinness Flint - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1974

I'm continuing my effort to post BBC sessions of lesser known musical acts. Here's a BBC album by the British band McGuinness Flint. This consists entirely of studio sessions.

This also continues my efforts to post "Top of the Pops" sessions. (As usual, note that's a reference to the BBC radio show, not the BBC TV show of the same name. Note that every single song here is sourced from Top of the Pops sessions. However, the vast majority of these have been officially released on the album "Malt and Barley Blues." It's a pretty damn hard to find album, but it does exist. However, three of the songs are unreleased. Those are tracks 15, 16, and 17. I figure the reason they're unreleased is because they come from a short time when then band was actually called "Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint," so one might argue they technically didn't belong on a McGuinness Flint album. Anyway, those three come from my great unknown source of Top of the Pops sessions. I believe those three haven't been available to the public until now.

McGuinness Flint was formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, a bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, a drummer with John Mayall's band. It also included vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle. 

This caused a problem, because the band was named "McGuinness Flint," but in my opinion the main reason for their success was the songwriting of Gallagher and Lyle. The band had a big hit with their very first release in 1970, "When I'm Dead and Gone," which went all the way to Number Two in the British singles chart. The next year, they had another hit with "Malt and Barley Blues," which also made the Top Five in Britain. Both of those songs, plus most of their other songs from those years, were written by Gallagher and Lyle. So it wasn't surprise that Gallagher and Lyle left the band by the end of 1971 to start their own career as a duo. They would have a lot of success, though they didn't have more hit singles until 1976. They also would have success writing songs for each other. For instance, Lyle co-wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It," which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Tina Turner in 1984.

After Gallagher and Lyle left, the band had trouble coming up with new material. For their next album, released in 1972, they had the smart idea of releasing an album, "Lo and Behold," consisting entirely of Bob Dylan songs that hadn't been released by Dylan yet at that time. That is represented by the three unreleased songs I mentioned above, when the band was briefly known as Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint. The band then resumed as McGuinness Flint for two more albums, released in 1973 and 1974. But those flatlined with the public, not making the albums chart at all. The band then broke up in 1975.

Here's the Wikipedia page on the band:

McGuinness Flint - Wikipedia 

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

UPDATE: On October 22, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same, but I changed the title (and cover art) to "Volume 1" after a second volume was found. 

01 When I'm Dead and Gone (McGuinness Flint)
02 Mister Mister (McGuinness Flint)
03 Bodang Buck (McGuinness Flint)
04 Dream Darlin' Dream (McGuinness Flint)
05 I'm Letting You Know (McGuinness Flint)
06 Heritage (McGuinness Flint)
07 Malt and Barley Blues (McGuinness Flint)
08 Conversation (McGuinness Flint)
09 Rock On (McGuinness Flint)
10 Who You Got to Love (McGuinness Flint)
11 Happy Birthday Ruthy Baby (McGuinness Flint)
12 Faith and Gravy (McGuinness Flint)
13 Mama Mine (McGuinness Flint)
14 Oh My Love (McGuinness Flint)
15 Get Your Rocks Off (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
16 Lo and Behold (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
17 Odd and Ends (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
18 Ride on My Rainbow (McGuinness Flint)
19 Rocking Chair (McGuinness Flint)
20 [I Don't Like Your] Country Music (McGuinness Flint)
21 Siren Sadie (McGuinness Flint) 

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The cover photo is from a photo shoot taken at Manchester Square, in London, in December 1970. From left to right: Tom McGuinness, Graham Lyle (sitting in blue shirt), Hughie Flint, Benny Gallagher, and Dennis Coulson (sitting in brown jacket).