Difford & Tilbrook (Squeeze) - BBC In Concert, Friars Club, Aylesbury, Britain, 9-22-1984

First off, understand this is a BBC concert by the British band Squeeze in all but name. The songwriting duo Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook write all the songs in their band Squeeze. Also, Tilbrook is the main lead vocalist and lead guitarist, and Difford occasionally sings lead vocals and plays guitar. Here is the only BBC concert they during a short time when Squeeze had officially broken up.

Squeeze put out their first album in 1977, and were increasingly popular until they broke up in late 1982. Difford and Tilbrook stayed together as a duo, and released an album, cleverly titled "Difford and Tilbrook," in 1984. In 1985, Squeeze reformed. But by 1993, Difford and Tilbrook were the only original members remaining. After that, it was basically just those two with other band members coming and going. At times, they've simply played as a duo with the Squeeze name. So, by later standards, this is definitely Squeeze.

The sole Difford and Tilbrook solo album was a good one, but it didn't do very well commercially, probably because it didn't have a killer single on it, and it wasn't released under the Squeeze name. This concert was meant to support that album, and most of the songs are from it, plus one cover version, Band of Gold," and three Squeeze songs to end the concert. I understand there were two more Squeeze songs on some versions of the BBC recording, "Tempted" and "Is This Love." But I haven't been able to find them. Let me know if you have them.

When I first posted this in January 2025, the sound quality had issues. But in January 2026, I found a different version, recently posted by the "Voodoo Wagon" music blog. Then, musical friend Progsprog saw that posted and sent me an even better version that had four extra songs. So I updated the entire thing. It now sounds just as good you'd expect for a BBC radio broadcast.

Everything here is officially unreleased.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Man for All Seasons (Difford & Tilbrook)
02 Picking Up the Pieces (Difford & Tilbrook)
03 Tempted (Difford & Tilbrook)
04 talk (Difford & Tilbrook)
05 Love's Crashing Waves (Difford & Tilbrook)
06 Woman's World (Difford & Tilbrook)
07 talk (Difford & Tilbrook)
08 Hope Fell Down (Difford & Tilbrook)
09 talk (Difford & Tilbrook)
10 Wagon Train (Difford & Tilbrook)
11 Band of Gold (Difford & Tilbrook)
12 Tears for Attention (Difford & Tilbrook)
13 Action Speaks Faster (Difford & Tilbrook)
14 Annie Get Your Gun (Difford & Tilbrook)
15 Black Coffee in Bed (Difford & Tilbrook)
16 talk (Difford & Tilbrook)
17 Labelled with Love (Difford & Tilbrook)
18 Within These Walls (Difford & Tilbrook)
19 Is That Love (Difford & Tilbrook)

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I couldn't find many good photos of Difford and Tilbrook while they were a duo in 1984. However, I got lucky and found a concert poster for this exact concert. Even better, it nicely fit into a square shape if I cut out some unimportant text at the bottom, so that's what I did. I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop.

Roxy Music - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, Britain, 6-11-2001

A few days ago, I posted the sixth volume of Roxy Music performing for the BBC. I found that at the last minute, having the one all ready to go. So here is it already. This is another BBC concert.

Roxy Music's prime period came to an end after the band's last studio album, "Avalon," in 1982, and then a tour that lasted into 1983. By then, there were only three members remaining, Bryan Ferry, Andy McKay, and Phil Manzanera. Nearly twenty years passed until the band reformed in 2001. The occasion was a tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the band. Since then, the band had occasionally regrouped to tour, with the most recent (and probably last) one taking place in 2022. The band did attempt a new album in the 2000s, but they decided not to finish it as they didn't feel it was strong enough to stand with the band's earlier albums.

For this 2001 tour, the three remaining members, Ferry, McKay, and Manzanera, were joined by another founding member, Paul Thompson. The only founding member not to take part was Brian Eno, who quit the band for good back in 1973.

This concert is essentially the band's best songs. Lead singer Bryan Ferry has had a successful solo career, but none of the songs are from his solo albums.

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. I'm bummed that, once again, the band didn't play my favorite song by them, "More than This." It seems that was only played on about one out of five dates during their 2001 tour.

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

01 talk (Roxy Music)
02 Street Life (Roxy Music)
03 Ladytron (Roxy Music)
04 While My Heart Is Still Beating (Roxy Music)
05 Out of the Blue (Roxy Music)
06 A Song for Europe (Roxy Music)
07 Oh Yeah (Roxy Music)
08 Both Ends Burning (Roxy Music)
09 talk (Roxy Music)
10 Avalon (Roxy Music)
11 My Only Love (Roxy Music)
12 Is There Something (Roxy Music)
13 Mother of Pearl (Roxy Music)
14 Jealous Guy (Roxy Music)
15 Editions of You (Roxy Music)
16 Virginia Plain (Roxy Music)
17 Love Is the Drug (Roxy Music)
18 Do the Strand (Roxy Music)

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The cover photo shows lead singer Bryan Ferry at a concert in London in June 2001.

Various Artists - A Musical Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1-20-1968

In October 1967, one of the all-time musical greats, Woody Guthrie, died at the age of 55. His health started declining in the late 1940s, and in 1952 he was diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, which causes a gradual decline in motor skills and mental abilities. He was hospitalized continuously from 1956 until his death. From the early 1960s onward, Bob Dylan regularly visited him in the hospital and sang songs for him, but so did Pete Seeger and many other folk singers.

Back in the 1960s, musical tribute concerts weren't really a thing yet, but Guthie was such a towering figure that there actually were three such concerts. I plan on posting all three eventually. This is the natural way to start, since it came first chronologically.

This concert was officially released in full as the album "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part 1," in 1972. In 1970, another tribute concert for him happened, and that was eventually released as "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part 2." Then, decades later, highlights from the two were combined onto one CD simply called "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie." 

Normally, I wouldn't post something that has been officially released in full. But I think in this case I can made a more listenable album by subtraction. What I mean is, the 1968 concert was a combination of songs that were sung and spoken word/poetry that was read, going back and forth between the two. I think the songs have a lot of relistening value, but I don't want to hear the spoken word parts that often. So I deleted almost twenty tracks of that, keeping just the music. If you want the full version, the official album is for you.

In removing those tracks, I was careful to manage the applause at the end of each song, since the spoken word part often started while the cheering was still going on. In some cases, I was able to fade the cheering down to bring it to a natural end. But when it was too short for that, I pasted in some cheering from the ends to other songs.

Now, let's get to the music, which consists entirely of songs written by Woody Guthrie, or cover songs he was closely associated with. This concert is most famous due to the appearance of Bob Dylan and the Band. It was important for several reasons. This was Dylan's first public performance since his motorcycle accident a year and a half earlier. It seems he wasn't actually that seriously injured in that accident, and it certainly didn't take him years to recover. But he'd been living a fast and crazy life of stardom and wanted to step away from all that for a while, and the accident gave him an excuse to go into seclusion. After this concert, Dylan basically went back into seclusion for another year or so. But he considered Woody Guthrie so important to his life that he made this rare public appearance during that time anyway.

Also important was the fact that Dylan was backed by the Band. Most members of the Band had backed him on a 1966 tour, and then during his "Basement Tapes" studio sessions in 1967. But at the time of this concert, they still hadn't made a name for themselves... both figuratively and literally! Since they literally didn't have a name to call themselves yet, for this concert, they were billed as "The Crackers," weirdly enough. Later in 1968, the Band would release their first studio album, "Music from Big Pink," to great critical acclaim. They would continue to back Dylan on other projects, including the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival concert and a 1974 tour. This concert was critical to their early career as well as their evolving musical connection with Dylan.

By the way, in addition to playing three songs with the Band, Dylan sang on two others: "This Train Is Bound for Glory" and the finale, "This Land Is Your Land." His voice is just one of many on the finale. As for "This Train Is Bound for Glory," he sang a verse on his own. Unfortunately, the album only included about a 30-second long snippet of that song, and his part wasn't included. I didn't include that snippet since I found it frustrating to only have a bit of the song. I'm guessing there was a flaw with the recording for much of the song.

The other stars of the concert were some of the biggest names in folk music at the time: Arlo Guthrie (Woody Guthrie's son, who had just hit it big with "Alice's Restaurant" in 1967), Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Richie Havens, and Tom Paxton. (I was asked the other day if I could post something by Pete Seeger. I couldn't think of anything worth posting. But then I remembered this concert.)

If you want to know more about this concert, here's an article in Rolling Stone Magazine about it that came out just a month after it took place:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-turns-up-for-woody-guthrie-memorial-197917/

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Oklahoma Hills (Arlo Guthrie)
02 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Judy Collins)
03 Curly Headed Baby (Pete Seeger)
04 Ramblin' Round (Odetta)
05 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie & Judy Collins)
06 Pretty Boy Floyd (Tom Paxton)
07 I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (Richie Havens)
08 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee] (Judy Collins)
09 Vigilante Man (Richie Havens)
10 Pastures of Plenty (Tom Paxton)
11 Grand Coulee Dam (Bob Dylan & the Band)
12 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt (Bob Dylan & the Band)
13 I Ain't Got No Home (Bob Dylan & the Band)
14 Roll On Columbia [Edit] (Judy Collins)
15 Jackhammer John (Pete Seeger & Richie Havens)
16 Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done [The Great Historical Bum] (Tom Paxton)
17 Union Maid (Judy Collins & Pete Seeger)
18 This Land Is Your Land (Will Geer, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta & Everyone)

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What a historic photo for the cover! From left to right, that's Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Arlo Guthrie. I found a bunch of photos from this concert, but all of them were in black and white. I picked this one, and then colorized it with the Kolorize.cc program. It did a really good job, including picking the colors. I only had to make a few fixes in Photoshop.

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 11 - Acoustic Session, BBC Radio 2, London, Britain, 10-15-2014

I think it's undeniable U2's music has declined in quality since the early 2000s. One can see it in critical ratings and well as sales. And that's typical for most musical artists. Very few can stay on top creativity after decades. That said, they still have done some interesting stuff in their later years. This is an interesting BBC studio session because the band played their songs in an acoustic style. Actually, it's more accurate to call this semi-acoustic, since they played most of these songs with bass and drums. But still, these are definitely different arrangements of these songs.

This session took place after the release of the band's studio album "Songs of Innocence." That was the album that was controversially included for free for about 500 million Apple iTunes users. It caused a backlash, since many people felt it was forced on them.

The first six songs all come from the "Songs of Innocence" album. The seventh song, "Ordinary Love," wouldn't be released until the 2017 album "Songs of Experience." Those first six songs were later included on a deluxe edition of "Songs of Innocence," but the seventh is still unreleased. 

This album is rather short. So I added an extra song at the end, "Mysterious Ways." It's also done in a similar style, so I think it fits right in. It's unreleased, coming from a tour rehearsal in 2015.

This album is 30 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On February 15, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same, but I renumbered the album after finding two earlier albums in this series that I'd missed.

01 Every Breaking Wave (U2)
02 California [There Is No End to Love] (U2)
03 Raised by Wolves (U2)
04 Cedarwood Road (U2)
05 Song for Someone (U2)
06 The Miracle [Of Joey Ramone] (U2)
07 Ordinary Love (U2)
08 Mysterious Ways (U2)

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For this session, U2 performed in Abbey Road Studios in London, where the Beatles recorded most of their albums, including "Abbey Road." For fun, the band did a photo shoot that was a nighttime version of the Beatles' iconic "Abbey Road" album cover.

John Lennon - Some Time in New York City - Alternate Version (1972)

For some reason, I've posted very little music from John Lennon's solo career so far. I have lots of albums planned, with many of them basically ready to go (minus tidying up and making the cover art). But then again, there's tons of music I plan on posting and I can't get to it all at once. But this particular album has come to the front of my posting priorities due to a song edit a friend of mine made. I'll explain more about that below.

"Some Time in New York City," released in 1972, was John Lennon's third proper solo album. His first two solo albums, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" and "Imagine," were critical successes, and did reasonably well commercially. Both have made it on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 albums of all time. So expectations were high for this, his third album. But it was considered a compete bust. One reviewer at the time called it "artistic suicide." Even decades later, a reviewer for Uncut Magazine said it was "a contender for the worst LP by a major musical figure" in all of music history. That's pretty bad! Sales were so bad that Lennon was stunned and he suffered songwriter's block for about a year.

So this is an album that's ripe for an alternate version, which I'm making here. In my opinion, there are three reasons this album did so poorly, both critically and commercially. First, it was a very political album, with every original song expressing radical leftist political opinions. The general public wasn't ready for that. 

Second, it wasn't really a John Lennon album, but instead a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album. Three of the songs on the first album were written and sung by Ono, and she sang some lead vocals on some of the other songs as well. People really didn't like that, especially since many at the time blamed Ono for the break-up of the Beatles. (In retrospect, she probably played some role in that Lennon was having more fun making music with her than with the Beatles, but there were many other factors that came to a head, especially financial ones, and basically everyone in the band being sick of everyone else.)

Third, it was a double album, and while the first album was made up of conventional songs, the second album consisted of live musical jams, and it was pretty terrible. It was a lot like the third album of George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass," consisting of jams that most people played just once. Except it was even worse since while Ono sang conventionally on the first album, she did her unusual screaming style over most of the jams. For many people, it was painful and unlistenable.

So here are all the things I did to improve the album:

1) I got rid of nearly all of the second album of jams. I'm one of those people who find it painful and unlistenable. The only song I kept from it was "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)." Unlike pretty much everything else on the second album, this is an actual song. It's a cover of an obscure song by the Olympics, from 1958.

2) Speaking of that song, "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)," I'm using a version created a couple of days ago by my musical friend Lil Panda. He, like me, has been tinkering with the audio editing programs that have advanced greatly in recent years, thanks to AI technology. Both he and I had previously tried to get rid of Ono's screaming from some songs, but found it impossible. But Lil Panda figured it out: it turns out that Ono's screams are so unusual that they're interpreted by the AI program he uses as a saxophone! Unfortunately, Ono's wailing was all over this song. But the saxophone filter got rid of at least 90 percent of it. Thanks, Lil Panda! Note also, that Lil Panda used the version of this song that appeared on the Frank Zappa album "Playground Psychotics." It's the exact same performance as the one on "Some Time in New York City," recorded at a concert in the Fillmore East in New York City in June 1971, but it's about a minute longer.

3) For the first album of conventional songs, I got rid of two out of three songs that were mostly Ono's, "Sisters, O Sisters," and "We're All Water." For this album, Ono actually sings conventionally most of the time, except for about half of "We're All Water." By and large, she did decently when she stuck to conventional singing. It's a far cry from her screaming on the second album of live jams (and some of "We're All Water"). So these two songs aren't terrible. I just don't think they're that strong. Plus, let's face it, nearly everybody puts on an album like this to hear Lennon songs, not Ono songs. 

4) I kept one mostly Ono song, "Born in a Prison." I consider it the best of the Ono songs on the album. It's not fantastic, but it's as good as a couple of the Lennon ones. However, I made a slight edit. Lennon sings backing vocals on the choruses. I used the same editing tool Lil Panda used for the "Well" song to separate out Lennon's vocals from Ono's. Then I boosted his vocals some. I couldn't do more because the two voices didn't completely separate. But you can at least hear him better. That's why this is the other song that has "[Edit]" in the title.

5) I used a live version of "Luck of the Irish." To be honest, I made the alternate version of this album years ago, except for the two recent song edits mentioned above, so I have long forgotten why I chose that version. I listened to both this live version and the studio version again today, and I didn't see much difference at all. Both versions have lead vocals by Lennon and Ono in different parts, and even Ono sang very competently in a live setting. In case you're curious, this version was recorded during a concert/rally on behalf of political activist John Sinclair (who was imprisoned at the time), that took place University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in December 1971.

6) For "Angela," I used the "Ultimate Mix" that came out on the archival album "John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth" that was released decades later. It brings up organ playing that was completely buried in the original album version, and it has less reverb on it.

7) Finally, I added the song "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" to the end of the album. This was a hit single that was released in December 1971, about six months prior to the release of this album. It was only a minor hit in the U.S. because it was released very late in the holiday season. But it was held back a year in Britain to maximize Christmas sales, and it made it to Number Four in the singles charts there. Since then, it has become a Christmas standard, being rereleased many times, and going back into the charts many times around Christmas. It has been widely covered as well. Being a classic, hit song, it really elevates the whole album, and ends it on a high note. Note that the 2005 reissue of the album included it at the end as well.

8) All the other songs are the same versions as on the original "Some Time in New York City" double album.

Ultimately, only so much can be done with this alternate version. This album is still a step down from the greatness of "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" and "Imagine." Some of the songs are a bit slapdash and generic musically. There was nothing I could do about the radical leftist political content, since that's a key part of every song. (Even "Happy Xmas" has an anti-Vietnam War message woven into it.) But being a political progressive myself, I'm in pretty close agreement with most of the political sentiments expressed here anyway. Lennon was going through a political phase and got a little carried away with his enthusiasm at times, but I think most of his political points have been proven right with the passage of time. 

Consider, for instance, the song "John Sinclair," complaining about how Sinclair got sentenced to ten years in prison for being caught with two joints of marijuana. Not only was Sinclair released early due to political pressure (and largely due to Lennon's high-profile involvement, it seems), but now marijuana is legal in half of the U.S. states as I write this in 2025, and medical marijuana is legal in many more. The ten-year prison sentence seems absurd in retrospect.

This album is 40 minutes long. The original double album version is 90 minutes long.

01 Woman Is the Nigger of the World (John Lennon)
02 Attica State (John Lennon)
03 Born in a Prison [Edit] (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
04 New York City (John Lennon)
05 Luck of the Irish (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
06 Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
07 John Sinclair (John Lennon)
08 Angela [Ultimate Mix] (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
09 Well [Baby Please Don't Go] [Edit] (John Lennon with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention)
10 Happy Xmas [War Is Over] (John Lennon)

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For the album cover, I wanted something similar to the official cover, but different. Luckily for me, the cover was done in the style of a newspaper front page, with song lyrics instead of articles. There were two newspaper pages included in the album art to get all the lyrics, so I just kept the title parts and used lyrics from the second page for the rest. 

Roxy Music - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: The High Road, Arenes de Frejus, Frejus, France, 8-27-1982

I'm extra psyched to be posting this, because up until the very last minute, I didn't know this recording existed. What I mean is, I had looked for a BBC recording from the band's 1982 tour, and I couldn't find one. I was all set to post the next (and final) album in this series, a BBC concert from 2001. But as I was writing the write-up for the post, I Googled some information about that, and happened to come across a mention of this show.

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)

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https://bestfile.io/en/X8bYvroRGBCT0d5/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from the video.

Georgie Fame - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: BBC Four Sessions, LSO St. Luke's, London, Britain, 4-24-2005

Here's another BBC album by British singer Georgie Fame. This is the sixth such album. It's a concert.

Fame, like Price, had his commercial heyday in the 1960s. But he was much more successful than Price, including having three Number One singles in Britain. So he remained popular enough in the 2000s for the BBC to broadcast one of his concerts. He boosted his appeal by including some other 1960s stars as guests: Geno Washington, Zoot Money, and Madeline Bell. Each of them got song to sing lead vocals. Then Money and Bell came back to help with the last song.

This concert is unreleased. It's from a BBC TV series called "BBC Four Sessions." I converted the video to audio then broke it into mp3s.

By the way, the date in the title is almost certainly the broadcast date, not the actual date of recording, which I always prefer to use when it's known.

This album is 58 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 12, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. But I found an earlier volume in this series that I'd missed, so the volume number changed. That meant the title, cover art, and mp3 tags changed too. 

01 Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Georgie Fame)
02 talk (Georgie Fame)
03 Get on the Right Track (Georgie Fame)
04 talk (Georgie Fame)
05 Zulu (Georgie Fame)
06 talk (Georgie Fame)
07 Humpty Dumpty (Georgie Fame & Geno Washington)
08 Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame)
09 talk (Georgie Fame)
10 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Georgie Fame & Zoot Money)
11 talk (Georgie Fame)
12 Point of No Return (Georgie Fame)
13 talk (Georgie Fame)
14 The Blues and Me (Georgie Fame & Madeline Bell)
15 talk (Georgie Fame)
16 Get Away (Georgie Fame)
17 talk (Georgie Fame)
18 Flamingo Allnighter (Georgie Fame with Madeline Bell & Zoot Money)

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The cover photo is from a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on March 15, 2004.

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Britain, 12-24-1979

I was rather surprised to find this concert the other day. Alan Price was a big name in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s, but his star had faded by the late 1970s. However, the BBC still gave him a concert. Here it is.

I previously posted two albums of Price's BBC studio sessions, all from the 1960s. Plus, I've posted a short BBC concert he did in 1970. Then in the early 1970s, he became part of a duo with Georgie Fame for a couple of years. I found two more albums of BBC studio sessions from that duo. Then, in 1973, he went back to being a solo artist. He had a big success composing the songs for the 1973 movie "O Lucky Man." After that, his album sales slowly dwindled. But he also had some success acting in movies and TV, and composing for more movie soundtracks.

As hinted above, his late 1970s albums didn't set the world on fire, either critically or commercially. However, this concert mostly consists of his songs from the 1960s, plus those from the early 1970s, especially the "O Lucky Man" soundtrack. So it does a decent job of being a "best of" collection.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 56 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 12, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. But I found an earlier volume in this series that I'd missed, so the volume number changed. That meant the title, cover art, and mp3 tags changed too. 

01 O Lucky Man (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Don't Stop the Carnival (Alan Price)
04 The House That Jack Built (Alan Price)
05 talk (Alan Price)
06 Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear (Alan Price)
07 talk (Alan Price)
08 In Times like These (Alan Price)
09 talk (Alan Price)
10 I'm a Poor Boy (Alan Price)
11 Don't Try (Alan Price)
12 I Know When I've Had Enough - That's Alright Mama - Blue Moon of Kentucky (Alan Price)
13 Poor People (Alan Price)
14 Sell, Sell, Sell (Alan Price)
15 Goin' Down Slow (Alan Price)
16 talk (Alan Price)
17 Left Over People (Alan Price)
18 Away, Away (Alan Price)
19 talk (Alan Price)
20 This Is Your Lucky Day (Alan Price)
21 Baby of Mine (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/s6dJwQuJ

alternate:

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

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the British TV show "The Basil Brush Show" in November 1979.

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 13: 2002-2003

Here's yet another album of David Bowie performing for the BBC. Unlike most others from around this time period, this one is a collection of BBC studio sessions. It so happens all of them were broadcast on TV instead of on the radio.

Everything here is officially unreleased, at least as far as I can tell. The first three songs are from the popular "Top of the Pops" TV show. Most appearances on that show are lip-synced, but these versions are included because they were actually done live. The next four songs are from another BBC TV show, "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross."

The eighth song is from the BBC TV show "Parkinson." The next three, tracks 9 to 11, are from yet another BBC TV show, "Later... with Jools Holland."

Everything I've mentioned so far is from 2002. But the last two tracks are from 2003, a second appearance on the TV show "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross."

Generally speaking, the songs sound really good. But there was a lot of cheering on most of them. So I ran all the songs through the MVSEP audio editing program and removed the crowd noise.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Slow Burn (David Bowie)
02 Fame (David Bowie)
03 I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship (David Bowie)
04 Everyone Says Hi (David Bowie)
05 Fashion (David Bowie)
06 Slip Away (David Bowie)
07 Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
08 Life on Mars (David Bowie)
09 Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)
10 5.15 The Angels Have Gone (David Bowie)
11 Heathen [The Rays] (David Bowie)
12 Modern Love (David Bowie)
13 New Killer Star (David Bowie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8fTrzEZY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/d68cHTrIuHTKqkw/file

The cover photo was taken backstage at a concert for the BBC in September 2002.

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Colston Hall, Bristol, Britain, 4-20-2010

Normally, I'm reluctant to post an album from a musical act that takes place well after their commercial and/or critical prime. For Joan Armatrading, that was mainly the 1970s and 80s. So I wasn't sure if I'd post this one. Then I listened to it. I was pleasantly surprised. 

I had no idea she rocked this much! I tend to think of Armatrading more of a singer-songwriter folkie type. But for this concert, she was in full rocking mode, with power chords and guitar solos and so on, more so than on the BBC concerts I'd posted from her. There were only a couple of songs done in more of an acoustic style. The song selection is very good too. This might be my favorite out of her BBC concerts.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, so I didn't have to make any fixes.

This album is 57 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On April 25, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same, but I changed the album title, after making an earlier volume of BBC music by her that I'd missed.

01 Show Some Emotion (Joan Armatrading)
02 talk (Joan Armatrading)
03 All the Way from America (Joan Armatrading)
04 Into the Blues (Joan Armatrading)
05 Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
06 My Baby's Gone (Joan Armatrading)
07 talk (Joan Armatrading)
08 This Charming Life (Joan Armatrading)
09 The Weakness in Me (Joan Armatrading)
10 talk (Joan Armatrading)
11 Best Dress On (Joan Armatrading)
12 Call Me Names (Joan Armatrading)
13 Me Myself I (Joan Armatrading)
14 Willow (Joan Armatrading)
15 Drop the Pilot (Joan Armatrading)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vFiyKjne

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QKtkhLLe5nQik5W/file

The cover photo is from a concert at Royal Albert Hall, in London, on April 13, 2008.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, BBC Radio Broadcasting Theatre, London, Britain, 4-23-2001

Here's another BBC album by Paul Weller. This one is rather unusual in that it contains a full solo acoustic concert. I believe 2001 was the first time Weller did a major tour in fully acoustic mode.

This concert bears a strong similarity to the official album "Days of Speed," released in late 2001. That is a compilation of various performances in Europe from this acoustic tour. So many of the songs are the same even though all of the exact performances are different. I prefer this though, as I generally prefer single full concerts with banter between songs over live albums that are compilations from lots of concerts. Admittedly, there isn't a lot of banter here, but there is some.

There's not much else to say. The sound quality is excellent despite everything here being officially unreleased.

On a related note, as I write this in January 2025, Weller recently released a new studio album, "66." I gave it a listen, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. In my opinion, most songwriters his age tend to lose some of their creative fire after putting out dozens of albums (the title refers to his age of 66 years old at the time it came out), but Weller is still going strong.

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk (Paul Weller)
02 The Loved (Paul Weller)
03 Brand New Start (Paul Weller)
04 Out of the Sinking (Paul Weller)
05 talk (Paul Weller)
06 Clues (Paul Weller)
07 talk (Paul Weller)
08 All the Pictures on the Wall (Paul Weller)
09 Amongst Butterflies (Paul Weller)
10 talk (Paul Weller)
11 Science (Paul Weller)
12 Back in the Fire (Paul Weller)
13 talk (Paul Weller)
14 Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea (Paul Weller)
15 talk (Paul Weller)
16 Here's One that Got Away (Paul Weller)
17 That's Entertainment (Paul Weller)
18 talk (Paul Weller)
19 Frightened (Paul Weller)
20 You Do Something to Me (Paul Weller)
21 There's No Drinking After You're Dead (Paul Weller)
22 Everything Has a Price to Pay (Paul Weller)
23 talk (Paul Weller)
24 Wild Wood (Paul Weller)
25 Headstart for Happiness (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/D639zJRv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dhF9vWZB3k4aFeF/file

The cover photo is from a concert in London on July 1, 2001.

Final Poll Results

Right at the end of 2024, I made a poll asking you which musical acts would you like to see me post BBC albums for sooner rather than later. Note I have literally hundreds of acts with at least one BBC album I could see post. This poll is specifically for the "big acts" where I have at least four BBC albums I've already made, sometimes a lot more.

The votes have died down, so here is the final count:

Incredible String Band           11
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers    9
Caravan                          8
R.E.M.                           8
Elvis Costello                   8
Crowded House                    8
Emmylou Harris                   8
XTC                              7
Genesis                          7
James Taylor                     6
Eric Clapton                     6
Flaming Lips                     6
Robert Plant                     5
Thin Lizzy                       5
Loudon Wainwright III            5
White Stripes                    5
Amy Winehouse                    4
Johnny Cash                      4
Police                           4
Stone the Crows                  3
Supergrass                       3
Pretenders                       2
Queen                            2
Oasis                            1
Texas                            0

I'm still really surprised the Incredible String Band won. And I'm just as surprised that the likes of Queen and Oasis got so few votes. But I'll abide by these results and soon start posting albums in rough order from this list.

Note though that since I posted that poll, I've been organizing the unposted BBC part of my collection, and I've found a few more acts with at least four BBC albums still to post. It's a shame I didn't think to add them to the poll:

Blur
Peter Gabriel
Robyn Hitchcock
Nils Lofgren
Simple Minds
Bruce Springsteen
Richard Thompson (solo)

D'oh! It's too late to add them to the poll, now, but if you have strong feelings about any of those, please let me know here.

Before I get to posting any of the above BBC albums, I first want to "clean house" and post BBC albums for those artists were I've already posted at least one BBC album and aren't mentioned above. It turns out there's a lot more of those than I'd realized, so this may take me some time. Here's what you're likely to see more of when it comes to BBC albums in the near future:

Joan Armatrading
Joan Baez
Bee Gees
David Bowie
Jackson Browne
Donovan
Richie Havens
Humble Pie
Ronnie Lane
Nick Lowe
Van Morrison
Robert Palmer
Tom Paxton
Roxy Music
Squeeze
Al Stewart
Rod Stewart
Supertramp
T Rex
U2
Paul Weller

If you feel strongly about getting some of those sooner rather than later, please let me know about that too. Thanks. And thanks for your patience. There's so much good music worth posting that it overwhelms me at times. This BBC stuff is just one small part of so much more I want to post here.

John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde - Songwriters' Circle, Subterania Club, London, Britain, 7-9-1999

I recently discovered a bunch of "Songwriters' Circle" albums, and I plan on posting more of them soon. Most of them are pretty hard to find, except this one. It probably gets around more due to the star line-up of John Cale (formerly of the Velvet Underground), Nick Cave, and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders.

By the way, I've already posted two Songwriters' Circle albums. They all follow the same format, in which three singer-songwriters are chosen and take turns singing songs in an acoustic format. Sometimes they join in a bit on each other's songs, sometimes not. Then, at the end, they usually sing a song together. 

I've already posted two such shows. Here's one with Jimmy Webb, Chip Taylor, and Nick Lowe:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/03/jimmy-webb-chip-taylor-nick-lowe.html

And here's one with Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega, and Loudon Wainwright III:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/richard-thompson-suzanne-vega-loudon.html

I have figured out all of these come from a BBC TV show called "Songwriters' Circle." But the odd thing is, this show has had two brief runs. There were a bunch of shows in 1999, including the one I'm posting here. Then there was a second bunch in 2010 and 2011. There haven't been any since. All the episodes remain unreleased as audio albums, but you can often find the videos of them on YouTube.

For this show, I found out there are two versions. One ends with "The Ship Song," and goes into a BBC DJ announcing the end of the show. Another has one more song, a cover of "I'm Waiting for the Man" by the Velvet Underground. I used the shorter version for most of this concert, since I had that in better quality. But I added in the extra song from the other version.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 talk (John Cale)
02 Dying on the Vine (John Cale)
03 talk (Chrissie Hynde)
04 Talk of the Town (Chrissie Hynde)
05 talk (Nick Cave)
06 West Country Girl (Nick Cave)
07 Thoughtless Kind (John Cale)
08 talk (Chrissie Hynde)
09 Kid (Chrissie Hynde)
10 talk (Nick Cave)
11 Henry Lee (Nick Cave)
12 talk (John Cale)
13 Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (John Cale)
14 talk (Chrissie Hynde)
15 I'll Stand by You (Chrissie Hynde)
16 talk (Nick Cave)
17 Into My Arms (Nick Cave)
18 talk (John Cale)
19 Ship of Fools (John Cale)
20 Back on the Chain Gang (Chrissie Hynde)
21 The Ship Song (Nick Cave)
22 talk (Chrissie Hynde)
23 I'm Waiting for the Man (John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ewxUQBev

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/oKg50OZy7rZu2qu/file

The image is from this exact concert. I took it from a high-quality video. Nick Cave was far apart from the others on stage, due to him having to stick by the piano. I moved him in much closer.

David Byrne - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: BBC Four Sessions, Union Chapel, London, Britain, 7-2002

Here's the second of two BBC concerts by David Byrne that I could find. If you know of any others, please let me know.

This is from a TV program, called "BBC Four Sessions," that ran for a few years and generally was edited down to hour-long episodes. But this is a full concert this time, judging by the length, because it was released on DVD only in 1994.

The sound quality is excellent.. And if you want, you can find the DVD video of the full concert on YouTube. (Last I checked, anyway.) 

I've already posted a Byrne concert from 2001, which is only a year earlier. But this one is pretty different, mainly due to the fact that he was backed by a full orchestra for the concert. So he picked songs that worked well for that, including some from his Talking Heads years.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

UPDATE: On January 6, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same, but I renamed the album after finding an earlier BBC concert he performed. I also found out the concert took place in July 2002, not November as I'd thought. So that changed in the title as well. (I'm sure the November month was wrong because it was broadcast on the BBC for the first time in September 2002.)

01 talk (David Byrne)
02 [Nothing But] Flowers (David Byrne)
03 talk (David Byrne)
04 And She Was (David Byrne)
05 Once in a Lifetime (David Byrne)
06 talk (David Byrne)
07 God's Child (David Byrne)
08 The Great Intoxication (David Byrne)
09 talk (David Byrne)
10 Un Di Felice (David Byrne)
11 The Revolution (David Byrne)
12 talk (David Byrne)
13 Sax and Violins (David Byrne)
14 This Must Be the Place [Naive Melody] (David Byrne)
15 What a Day That Was (David Byrne)
16 Like Humans Do (David Byrne)
17 talk (David Byrne)
18 U.B. Jesus (David Byrne)
19 talk (David Byrne)
20 Life during Wartime (David Byrne)
21 Lazy (David Byrne)
22 I Wanna Dance with Somebody [Who Loves Me] (David Byrne)
23 talk (David Byrne)
24 Ausencia (David Byrne)
25 The Accident (David Byrne)
26 Road to Nowhere (David Byrne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pMWFwP7X

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/pf5DWhIrWsWRA56/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Phil Ochs - Burg-Waldeck Festival, Dorweiler, Germany, 6-1968

Here's something I'm especially proud to present. I'm a fan of folk singer Phil Ochs. I've been wanting to post something from him for a long time, but I wanted it to be something special. I finally found it with this concert.

This is a completely unreleased bootleg, with excellent sound quality. It seems that a German radio station made the recording, though it appears it was never actually broadcast. However, despite the quality, this bootleg hasn't gotten around much due to many sonic flaws. But thanks to many recent improvements with audio editing technology, I was able to fix nearly all of the flaws, so this should be a really good listen.

Since this is my first (but hopefully not last) Phil Ochs post, I just want to say that I think he's very underrated. He was most popular in the 1960s, then had increasing mental problems in the early 1970s (he suffered from depression and being bipolar), finally committing suicide in 1976. Being a politically progressive person myself, I like the fact that his songs were very political and pulled no punches. He probably isn't so well remembered today precisely because he was so provocative and radical with his songs. For instance, he didn't just sing in "stop the war" generalities about the Vietnam War, he sang about human rights atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers (this before events like the My Lai Massacre were generally known) as well as the overall immorality of certain aspects of U.S. foreign policy. A lot of people may disagree with his views, but it can't be denied that felt strongly about his opinions and thought he was being patriotic in his own way by shining a spotlight on problems he thought needed fixing.

If you want to know more about him, here's his Wikipedia page:

Phil Ochs - Wikipedia

This concert recording is directly tied to his political activism. It took place during a rock festival, but not a typical one. The following is a relatively short summary of what I learned from the German Wikipedia entry about the festival (translated into English). The Burg-Waldeck Festival began in 1964, held in a remote location near the ruins of the Waldeck castle in Germany. It started out both as a festival and kind of a workshop, where creative people of all types could meet and exchange ideas. There were lectures, poetry readings, training sessions, and more, as well as typical musical performances, mostly of acoustic folk music. 

With each passing year, the festival got larger, but also more radical with its leftist politics. The youth of many countries were getting radicalized as the 1960s went on, thanks to the Vietnam War and the counter-culture movement. That was especially true in Germany, where many youths were having a dramatic opposing reaction to the Nazism of their parents' generation. So, for instance, by the 1967 festival, the official theme of the festival was the political song.

Things got even more radical in the 1968 festival. It also was the biggest, with 6,000 people showing up. Phil Ochs and Odetta were the only big names from the U.S. to show up, but there were performers from other countries, especially Germans singing in German. But even as radically leftist the festival had become, it wasn't radical enough for some. Many German socialists and even communists came to the festival and caused trouble, especially when there were performers who they didn't consider radical enough. They often occupied the stage, waved Vietcong flags, read leaflets, and demanded political discussions instead of musical performances. Due to this chaotic situation, many performers were afraid to go on stage. There were numerous delays and cancellations.

Given all that, it was probably a fortunate thing for Ochs that his songs were almost all political, and often expressed some pretty radically leftist views. But even he had trouble with some elements in the crowd. You can hear that on this recording with his comments in the very first track. And later, he made more comments along those lines, and also played some songs that criticized people on the left as well, for instance "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends."

By the way, the next Burg-Waldeck festival in 1969 would also be the last. The political situation got more out of hand as some people radicalized even more, while others did not. Plus, the general folk music tone of the festival was out of touch with the increasing focus on rock music with full bands. There even was some violence, apparently most done by conservative locals who hated the festival. For instance, cables were cut, car tires were punctured, a wooden stage was burned down, and a stage sculpture was blown up!

Anyway, getting back to the music, the festival went from June 12th to June 17th. Ochs performed multiple times. It seems there's no telling what date or dates this music is from, which is why I didn't give a special date in the album title. It almost certainly is from at least two different concerts, and probably three (if not more), since he performed six songs twice and one song three times in the bootleg recording I took this from. I've cut things down so there is just one version of each song. There's also no telling the "correct" order, so I generally stuck with the order of the bootleg I came across, but I moved two songs to the end that sounded like natural closers.

It turns out there was also great variety in the sound quality of the songs. The first few had no problems. But after that, the overall sound quality stayed high, but there were static interruptions and slight cuts of silence here and there. In the notes I found, this apparently was on the original recording, not some later digital artifacts. For the silent bits, I generally just deleted the gaps when they were small enough, usually only a fraction of a second. But bigger ones were problematic, since simply deleting them interrupted the rhythm of the songs. Luckily, there weren't too many of those. But when there were, I often managed to patch in bits from elsewhere in the song, for instance with repeating choruses. For one particularly big gap in the song "Joe Hill," I had to use a few seconds from a bootleg of a different concert.

But just as common, or more common, were the bursts of noise or static. Up until recently, I would have been helpless to fix this. But I found a way, using the iZotope audio editing program. I ran the troubled parts of songs through that program's "de-rustle" feature, and that got rid of the noises nearly every time while keeping the music. Probably some of the musical richness was lost, so I tried to use that only when necessary. Those are the songs with "[Edit]" in the names. I actually made even more edits than for just those songs (and it would be long and boring to explain them all), but those were the really tricky ones. There's probably a few little problems remaining here and there, but hopefully I got rid of the vast majority of them.

Anyway, it was a lot of work, but this should now be one of a handful of the best Ochs recordings out there, bootleg or official. For all the songs, it was just his voice and his acoustic guitar. There's also a fair amount of interesting banter before most of the songs.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 talk (Phil Ochs)
02 Flower Lady (Phil Ochs)
03 talk (Phil Ochs)
04 Outside of a Small Circle of Friends (Phil Ochs)
05 talk (Phil Ochs)
06 Changes (Phil Ochs)
07 Rhythms of Revolution (Phil Ochs)
08 talk (Phil Ochs)
09 Joe Hill [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
10 talk (Phil Ochs)
11 Draft Dodger Rag [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
12 White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
13 I'm Gonna Say It Now [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
14 talk (Phil Ochs)
15 Crucifixion [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
16 Floods of Florence [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
17 talk (Phil Ochs)
18 There but for Fortune [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
19 Is There Anybody Here [Edit] (Phil Ochs)
20 talk (Phil Ochs)
21 The Highwayman (Phil Ochs)
22 talk (Phil Ochs)
23 Cops of the World (Phil Ochs)
24 talk (Phil Ochs)
25 I Ain't Marchin' Anymore (Phil Ochs)
26 talk (Phil Ochs)
27 The War Is Over (Phil Ochs)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MshzUys6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/jncKXCQM5VejCyU/file

This cover photo is from this exact concert. I found a black and white movie of one of the songs, and took a screenshot from it. Then I used the Palette program to colorize it. After that, I used the Krea AI program to sharpen the image.

Jethro Tull - Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA, 11-25-1987

I've been posting a lot of BBC concerts lately as part of my big BBC project. But sometimes, non-BBC sources are even better. Here's a case in point. 

I wanted a Jethro Tull concert from right after the release of their 1987 album "Crest of a Knave." I'm not a huge fan of this band, but I like that album. In particular, I remember as a kid hearing the songs "Steel Monkey" and "Farm on the Freeway" on the radio a lot, and I think those are very strong songs. Unfortunately, the BBC didn't record a concert for this band in the time period I wanted. But luckily, a local radio station did (in conjunction with the nationwide radio show "King Biscuit Flower Hour").

This unreleased concert has great sound quality and a good set list, including the "Crest of a Knave" songs I was looking for.

This album is an hour and 55 minutes long.

01 Instrumental (Jethro Tull)
02 Songs from the Wood (Jethro Tull)
03 talk (Jethro Tull)
04 Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)
05 Steel Monkey (Jethro Tull)
06 talk (Jethro Tull)
07 Farm on the Freeway (Jethro Tull)
08 Heavy Horses (Jethro Tull)
09 talk (Jethro Tull)
10 Living in the Past (Jethro Tull)
11 Serenade to a Cuckoo [Instrumental] (Jethro Tull)
12 talk (Jethro Tull)
13 Budapest (Jethro Tull)
14 talk (Jethro Tull)
15 Hunting Girl (Jethro Tull)
16 Bach Violin Concerto in E [Third Movement] [Instrumental] (Jethro Tull)
17 Keyboard and Drum Duet [Instrumental] (Jethro Tull)
18 Wond'ring Aloud (Jethro Tull)
19 Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day (Jethro Tull)
20 Jump Start (Jethro Tull)
21 talk (Jethro Tull)
22 Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die (Jethro Tull)
23 Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
24 Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)
25 Thick as a Brick [Outro] (Jethro Tull)
26 Wind Up (Jethro Tull)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DapXhj7P

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MUOAHdYqj9K7u12/file

The cover photo of lead singer Ian Anderson was taken at a concert in Chicago, Illinois, on December 4, 1987.

Ronnie Lane - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 12-13-1974

Here's another BBC album by ex-Faces member Ronnie Lane. This is the third out of four that I've found.

Like the previous volume in this series, this is a BBC concert. Both of them are close in time, set about six months apart. But in between, Lane released his album "Anymore for Anymore." So naturally there are a good number of songs performed from that album.

The concert has been officially released in full as part of the album "You Never Can Tell." However, for some reason, it was badly mixed, with the lead vocals too quiet. So I fixed that for all songs using the UVR5 audio editing program.

The concert is a bit strange in that all the talking between songs is done by a BBC DJ, as if Lane could only sing, not talk. But that was the occasional style for BBC concerts in the early 1970s.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 talk (Ronnie Lane)
02 Last Orders (Ronnie Lane)
03 talk (Ronnie Lane)
04 Anniversary (Ronnie Lane)
05 talk (Ronnie Lane)
06 Roll On Babe (Ronnie Lane)
07 talk (Ronnie Lane)
08 From the Late to the Early - How Come (Ronnie Lane)
09 talk (Ronnie Lane)
10 You're So Rude (Ronnie Lane)
11 talk (Ronnie Lane)
12 What Went Down [That Night with You] (Ronnie Lane)
13 talk (Ronnie Lane)
14 Chicken Wired (Ronnie Lane)
15 talk (Ronnie Lane)
16 Sweet Virginia (Ronnie Lane)
17 talk (Ronnie Lane)
18 Ooh La La (Ronnie Lane)
19 talk (Ronnie Lane)
20 You Never Can Tell (Ronnie Lane)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/d7As1s9C

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AnZiO0wEN8Nw5oZ/file

The cover photo is probably from the year before, when Lane's concerts took on many of the stylings of a traveling circus.

Elton John - BBC Sessions, Volume 17: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-25-2023

I truly thought I was done posting Elton John BBC albums. I'd posted no less than 16 of them already! I could have done even more, but some of them were rather repetitious, with similar set lists. However, I found this and decided, okay, one last time. Elton John suggested this could be his last full concert he ever plays in Britain. Even if that turns out not to be true, sadly, he's getting near to the end of his career. I think this is a good way to sum up his many BBC concerts over the years.

It seems Elton John was determined to go out with a bang. The set list was all killer, no filler. The only recent song performed was "Cold Heart," which was a Number One hit for him in 2021. He also had some guest stars to promote relatively new talent: Brandon Flowers (of the Killers), Jacob Lusk, Stephen Sanchez, and Rina Sawayama.

At the time of this concert, John was about 73 years old. But if there were any signs of age, I couldn't hear them. His voice was still in fine form. 

This concert is unreleased. I could only find a high quality video of it. So I converted that to audio and then broke it up into mp3s.

This album is an hour and 56 minutes long.

01 Pinball Wizard (Elton John)
02 The Bitch Is Back (Elton John)
03 talk (Elton John)
04 Bennie and the Jets (Elton John)
05 talk (Elton John)
06 Daniel (Elton John)
07 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
08 I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (Elton John)
09 talk (Elton John)
10 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
11 talk (Elton John)
12 Are You Ready for Love (Elton John & Jacob Lusk)
13 Sad Songs [Say So Much] (Elton John)
14 talk (Elton John)
15 Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John)
16 talk (Elton John & Stephen Sanchez)
17 Until I Found You (Elton John & Stephen Sanchez)
18 Your Song (Elton John)
19 Candle in the Wind (Elton John)
20 talk (Elton John)
21 Tiny Dancer (Elton John & Brandon Flowers)
22 talk (Elton John)
23 Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John & Rina Sawayama)
24 Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
25 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John)
26 I'm Still Standing (Elton John)
27 talk (Elton John)
28 Cold Heart (Elton John)
29 talk (Elton John)
30 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
31 talk (Elton John)
32 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Elton John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YMLVfJ3Y

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/7VWVGF5njI638qk/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Roxy Music: BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 5-18-1979

The fourth volume in my series of Roxy Music performing for the BBC is a full concert from 1979.

There's a big time gap between the three previous volumes in this series I posted, all from 1972 and 1973, and this one. That's probably mostly because the band had periods of inactivity in those years, in part due to lead singer Bryan Ferry had a successful solo career going on at the same time. In fact, the band disbanded from 1976 to 1978.

At the time of this concert, the band was promoting their latest album, "Manifesto." It was their first album in four years. It contained the hits "Angel Eyes" and "Dance Away." Curiously, "Dance Away," wasn't performed at this concert, but some other songs from the album were, including "Trash," "Manifesto," "Ain't That So," and "Still Falls the Rain."

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 Manifesto (Roxy Music)
02 Trash (Roxy Music)
03 talk (Roxy Music)
04 Out of the Blue (Roxy Music)
05 A Song for Europe (Roxy Music)
06 talk (Roxy Music)
07 Still Falls the Rain (Roxy Music)
08 talk (Roxy Music)
09 Mother of Pearl (Roxy Music)
10 Ain't That So (Roxy Music)
11 talk (Roxy Music)
12 Angel Eyes (Roxy Music)
13 In Every Dream Home a Heartache (Roxy Music)
14 Casanova (Roxy Music)
15 Love Is the Drug (Roxy Music)
16 Re-Make-Re-Model (Roxy Music)
17 Editions of You (Roxy Music)
18 Do the Strand (Roxy Music)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZfrNPTPv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7ejmQAZRc4KuBA5/file

The cover photo of lead singer Bryan Ferry is aaaalmost from this exact concert. It's from the same venue, but the night before. 

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Earl's Court, London, Britain, 10-20-1994

I haven't posted this until now because it's very similar to the official live album "Pulse." but if I want to present a full version of everything Pink Floyd did for the BBC, I should post this too.

"Pulse" is one of those live albums that is drawn from a bunch of different concerts. In this case, all of them were taken from the last month or so of the band's 1994 tour. Personally, I prefer this to "Pulse" because it's a real, full concert, warts and all. All the songs are in the order they were played, as opposed to "Pulse," where they were ordered very differently for some reason. 

About seven of performances from "Pulse" were taken from this exact show. Note also that the entire video of this exact show was included on "The Later Years" box set, but only in DVD format. It's never been released in an audio format.

Some people may say the David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd of the late 1980s and after wasn't the "real" Pink Floyd. I think those people have a point, since Roger Waters was such an essential part of the band. But if that's how you feel, you can just look at this essentially as a David Gilmour concert, and that's a very good thing as well.

Different versions of this bootleg exist. For instance, the video version sounds a bit different than the BBC radio version. I went with the one I thought sounded the best, which is the BBC radio one.

This album is two hours and 30 minutes long.

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I to V (Pink Floyd)
02 Learning to Fly (Pink Floyd)
03 High Hopes (Pink Floyd)
04 Take It Back (Pink Floyd)
05 Coming Back to Life (Pink Floyd)
06 Sorrow (Pink Floyd)
07 Keep Talking (Pink Floyd)
08 Another Brick in the Wall, Part II (Pink Floyd)
09 One of These Days [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
10 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
11 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
12 On the Run [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
13 Time (Pink Floyd)
14 Breathe [Reprise] (Pink Floyd)
15 The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
16 Money (Pink Floyd)
17 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
18 Any Colour You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
19 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
20 Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
21 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
22 Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
23 Run like Hell (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CjnqvC7b

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6a7qYvXdnmI7m0c/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 12: In Concert, BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 6-27-2000

The next album in my series of David Bowie BBC albums in a particularly special concert. This concert took place two days after Bowie performed in front of a massive audience at the annual Glastonbury Festival. This contrast, by contrast, was extremely small, with only 250 people fitting into the venue.

The people lucky enough to get in consisted of fan club members who won a lottery. But also, a number of elites were allowed in, including stars like Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, Boy George, Lulu, Bob Geldof, members of Duran Duran, and more.

This concert was officially released twice. The first version came out as a bonus disc on some versions of the album "Bowie at the Beeb." But it was missing five songs. Later, it was included as part of the box set "Brilliant Adventure." This included the missing songs.

However, both of these versions were missing all the banter between songs, and there was a lot of banter. So I used a bootleg version that contained everything. The sound quality of that was just as good as the released versions. However, I did cut out two false starts to songs.

This concert is a must-have for any Bowie fan. Knowing that he was recording this for the radio as well as probable later official release, he really rose to the occasion.

This album is two hours and nine minutes long.

01 Wild Is the Wind (David Bowie)
02 talk (David Bowie)
03 Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie)
04 talk (David Bowie)
05 Seven (David Bowie)
06 talk (David Bowie)
07 This Is Not America (David Bowie)
08 talk (David Bowie)
09 Absolute Beginners (David Bowie)
10 talk (David Bowie)
11 Always Crashing in the Same Car (David Bowie)
12 talk (David Bowie)
13 Survive (David Bowie)
14 talk (David Bowie)
15 The London Boys (David Bowie)
16 talk (David Bowie)
17 I Dig Everything (David Bowie)
18 talk (David Bowie)
19 Little Wonder (David Bowie)
20 talk (David Bowie)
21 The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
22 talk (David Bowie)
23 Fame (David Bowie)
24 talk (David Bowie)
25 Stay (David Bowie)
26 talk (David Bowie)
27 Hallo Spaceboy (David Bowie)
28 Cracked Actor (David Bowie)
29 talk (David Bowie)
30 I'm Afraid of Americans (David Bowie)
31 talk by Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie)
32 Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
33 talk (David Bowie)
34 The Jean Genie [Instrumental Version] (David Bowie)
35 talk (David Bowie)
36 All the Young Dudes (David Bowie)
37 talk (David Bowie)
38 Starman (David Bowie)
39 'Heroes' (David Bowie)
40 talk (David Bowie)
41 Let's Dance (David Bowie)
42 talk (David Bowie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rh9Yisua

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/8T5iLjZHEZ4BtFh/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Gladys Knight & the Pips - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Beverly Hills Theatre, Beverly Hills, CA, 11-12-1983

I had been under the impression that the only music Gladys Knight and the Pips did for the BBC was a few songs here and there. But then I came across two full BBC concerts from early 1980s. Here's the second one, from late 1983.

As I've mentioned previously, I think soul music in general had a big downturn in the 1980s for a variety of reasons, so this isn't the ideal time for a BBC concert for me. But this is what we've got. At least it came at a strong point for the group. The album they were supporting here, 1983's "Visions," was a commercial and critical comeback. It was their first album to reach Gold status (selling half a million copies) since 1975. That was largely due to the success of the song "Save the Overtime (For Me)," which hit Number One in the R&B singles chart.

This is entirely unreleased. The sound quality is good, though not outstanding.

This album is 56 minutes long.

UPDATE: On February 12, 2025, I renamed the album to "Volume 2" after finding an earlier BBC concert I'd missed.

01 Reach High (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02 Taste of Bitter Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
03 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
04 Neither One of Us [Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
05 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
06 I Will Fight (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
07 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
08 Just Be My Lover (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
09 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
10 Save the Overtime [For Me] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
11 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
12 You're Number One [In My Book] (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
13 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
14 Every Beat of My Heart - Friendship Train - If I Were Your Woman - Daddy Could Swear, I Declare (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
15 Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
16 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
17 She Believes in Me (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
18 On the Wings of Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
19 talk (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
20 I Won't Last a Day without You (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
21 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & the Pips)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UWWkFsvZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/yPvm4NtOSp244Xf/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Chicago, on June 26, 1983. Unfortunately I didn't see one showing all three of the Pips.

Midnight Oil - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-25-1993

I had come across this Midnight Oil concert years ago and I considered posting it here, but I ultimately decided against it because I deemed it too short. However, I recently found a different version that had two extra songs on it, plus some additional banter. It added about 13 minutes, and I believe makes it the complete performance.

I had previously posted a 1990 Midnight Oil concert as their only BBC album. Since I've found this, I renamed that to "Volume 1," making this "Volume 2." So you may want to redownload that other one, with changed title and cover art and mp3 tags. Here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/04/midnight-oil-bbc-in-concert-wembley.html

This concert took place a couple of months after the release of the band's popular "Earth and Sun and Moon" album. It was only three years from the other BBC concert I've posted. But the main difference is the inclusion of songs from that album, like "My Country," "Truganini," "Outbreak of Love," and "Tell Me the Truth."

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
02 talk (Midnight Oil)
03 My Country (Midnight Oil)
04 Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil)
05 Warakurna (Midnight Oil)
06 Outbreak of Love (Midnight Oil)
07 Tell Me the Truth (Midnight Oil)
08 Truganini (Midnight Oil)
09 Forgotten Years (Midnight Oil)
10 talk (Midnight Oil)
11 Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)
12 talk (Midnight Oil)
13 Hercules (Midnight Oil)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zTn2nPKX

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/HqErFYYiHtoGf8d/file

The cover photo of the band's lead singer Peter Garrett is from a concert in San Francisco, California, on September 29, 1993.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Cambridge Theatre, London, Britain, 10-24-1993

Yesterday, I posted a poll asking about which big name artists I should target as part of my big BBC project. But before I get to those, I want to make a concerted effort to finish off the BBC albums of some other big name artists in the next little while. Here's an example. I recently found two more Jackson Browne BBC concerts, with this one and one that comes after.

At the time of this concert, Browne's 1993 album "I'm Alive" was coming out. In fact, it would be released just two days later. The album was well received critically, and Browne naturally played a bunch of songs from it here. (Though note that this concert was almost certainly edited down from a longer concert to fit in an hour-long time slot.)

Listening this, what struck me is how rocking it is, overall. It's pretty different from his typical folky 1970s mode, but I like it.

Everything here is officially unreleased.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
02 talk (Jackson Browne)
03 World in Motion (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 My Problem Is You (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Two of Me, Two of You (Jackson Browne)
08 Miles Away (Jackson Browne)
09 Too Many Angels (Jackson Browne)
10 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
11 Sky Blue and Black (Jackson Browne)
12 talk (Jackson Browne)
13 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yqB6JGKW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4qDmLkoab0BO8Sq/file

The cover photo comes from a concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, on October 11, 1992.