Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 5-22-1993

When I posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 2" album by Joan Baez a few weeks ago, I noted that I probably was missing some other BBC concerts she did. That's still true, but at least I found this one since then. It took place in 1993. 

When I've thought about Baez, I've generally considered her a folk singer in her 1960s and 1970s heyday. But after listening to this, plus another BBC concert I've found from the 1990s, I'm more impressed with her later material. She didn't start out a songwriter, but she eventually grew into being a pretty good one. For instance, her big 1975 hit "Diamonds and Rust" was written by her. And she had good taste in cover versions. So although I wasn't familiar with most of these songs, I thought they were pretty good.

This remains officially unreleased. The sound quality is solid, although this was sourced from relatively low quality mp3s. I edited them a bit, but I couldn't improve things much.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Isaac and Abraham (Joan Baez)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Amsterdam (Joan Baez)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Play Me Backwards (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 Strange Rivers (Joan Baez)
10 talk (Joan Baez)
11 Welcome Me (Joan Baez)
12 There but for Fortune (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Edge of Glory (Joan Baez)
15 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
16 talk (Joan Baez)
17 I'm with You (Joan Baez)
18 talk (Joan Baez)
19 Forever Young (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hVYyh7Nj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/40ohxEKXgAYFDJ0/file

The cover photo is from the Central Park Summerstage concert in New York City in August 1993.

Dave Berry - BBC Sessions (1965-1972)

I mentioned some weeks back that I'm making it a point of posting the BBC sessions of some less popular 1960s musical acts, since nobody else seems to be doing it and it fits into my larger big BBC project. Tim Rose, Chris Farlowe, and the Ivy League are some recent examples. Here's another one, Dave Berry.

Berry was a star in Britain and some European countries from about 1963 to 1966. He never had success on the charts in the U.S. His biggest hits were "The Crying Game," "Little Things," and "Mama," all featured here. He's also known for the original version of "This Strange Effect," which was written by Ray Davies of the Kinks but not released by the Kinks at the time. It barely scraped into the Top 40 in Britain, but it was a Number One hit in the Netherlands. His star faded suddenly in 1967, when musical tastes drastically shifted with the rise of psychedelic music. So it's not surprising the last BBC session here is from early 1967, with one exception.

That exception consists of the last two songs. They come from a BBC session in 1972, long past his hit making era. One of those songs, "Moving On (Turn Around)," sounds like a clone of "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" by T. Rex, which was a huge hit the previous year. It makes for an interesting curio.

Everything here is officially unreleased. But the sound quality is excellent, since all but one of the songs come from acetates of the "Top of the Pops" BBC radio show, which survived in pristine condition. The one exception to that is "The Crying Game." That's my favorite song sung by Berry (it also was a hit by Boy George in the 1990s), so I was disappointed to see that no BBC session of him singing it survived. So I had to resort to using a version he sang on the TV show "Shindig!" I believe this had live vocals over the instruments from the record. There were a few minor gaps in that recording, but I patched them up with some audio editing. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

There are a bunch of other songs with "[Edit]" in their titles too. That's due to the usual problem at the time of BBC DJs talking over the music. (I'm looking at you in particular, DJ Dave Matthew.) As I usually do, I wiped out the talking while keeping the underlying music using the UVR5 audio editing program.

Berry wasn't in the top tier of 1960s artists by any means, but if you like British Invasion music, you should like this. Although these are all BBC versions, I think this also basically works as a "best of" for him.

This album is 57 minutes long.

UPDATE: On May 15, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. I added two songs I'd previously missed, "Me and Bobbie McGee" and "Moving On (Turn Around)."

01 Little Things (Dave Berry)
02 Cadillac (Dave Berry)
03 I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (Dave Berry)
04 The Crying Game [Edit] (Dave Berry)
05 Southern Love (Dave Berry)
06 This Strange Effect (Dave Berry)
07 It Ain't Me, Babe [Edit] (Dave Berry)
08 Roll Over Beethoven (Dave Berry)
09 I'm Gonna Take You There (Dave Berry)
10 Just Don't Know [Edit] (Dave Berry)
11 Now Is the Time [Edit] (Dave Berry)
12 If You Wait for Love (Dave Berry)
13 Hidden [Edit] (Dave Berry)
14 Mama (Dave Berry)
15 Understand Your Man (Dave Berry)
16 My Heart Skips a Beat [Edit] (Dave Berry)
17 Stranger (Dave Berry)
18 God Bless the Child [Edit] (Dave Berry)
19 It's Gonna Be Fine [Edit] (Dave Berry)
20 Forever (Dave Berry)
21 It's So Easy (Dave Berry)
22 Me and Bobbie McGee [Edit] (Dave Berry)
23 Moving On [Turn Around] [Edit] (Dave Berry)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Qo3gkjwk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Gi6sW4kZYEXzcFF/file

The cover photo is from 1965.

The Guess Who - HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY, 9-9-2001

The Guess Who first broke up in 1975. This is a concert from a reunion tour in 2001.

Normally, I'm not a fan for albums by musical acts long past their glory years. But this is an exception. One key reason is that the two main creative forces in the original band, lead singer Burton Cummings and lead guitarist Randy Bachman, didn't actually stay together that long. Bachman left the band in 1970. Then he went on to big success with his band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, even having a Number One single in the U.S. in 1974 with "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." Their reunion in the early 20002s featured Cummings and Bachman together for the first time since 1970 (outside a couple of early reunion shows), which meant Bachman got to play lead guitar on all the Guess Who songs he missed after 1970, and some Bachman-Turner Overdrive hits got incorporated into the set list.

Furthermore, while Cummings and Bachman may not have looked as fit as they were back in the 1970s, their singing and playing was top notch. Furthermore, the rest of the band consisted of members from the 1970s. The one major holdout was Jim Kale, who was the bassist from the band's origin until 1972. In the 1980s, he noticed that the name "The Guess Who" had never been trademarked in the U.S., and he scooped that up for himself without consulting other band members. Then he created a touring group using that name. Not surprisingly, this pissed off Cummings, Bachman, and others. So while Kale didn't take part in the reunion tours, he got a percentage of their profits by allowing them to use the Guess Who name. (In 2024, after many years of legal battles, Cummings and Bachman finally reclaimed the band name.)

This soundboard bootleg sounds great, as good as an official live album. However, note that there is a similar official live album called "Running Back Thru Canada." It was recorded a year earlier at a concert in Winnipeg, Canada. But while the set list is pretty similar, there are unique songs on both. I'm a big enough Guess Who fan to have both that and this.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 talk (Guess Who)
02 Shakin' All Over (Guess Who)
03 Guns, Guns, Guns (Guess Who)
04 Hand Me Down World (Guess Who)
05 talk (Guess Who)
06 These Eyes (Guess Who)
07 talk (Guess Who)
08 You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Guess Who)
09 Clap for the Wolfman (Guess Who)
10 Glamour Boy (Guess Who)
11 Lookin' Out for Number One (Guess Who)
12 No Sugar Tonight - New Mother Nature (Guess Who)
13 Let It Ride (Guess Who)
14 talk (Guess Who)
15 Undone (Guess Who)
16 talk (Guess Who)
17 American Woman (Guess Who)
18 Laughing (Guess Who)
19 Bus Rider (Guess Who)
20 No Time (Guess Who)
21 talk (Guess Who)
22 Share the Land (Guess Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/19RFfoiF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Yyv1Ft0MFSDdSFD/file

The cover photo shows Randy Bachman (left) and Burton Cummings (right) at the Radio and Records Convention in Beverly Hills, California, in 2001. They were further apart, but I moved them closer together in Photoshop.

Supertramp - Reitstadion Riem, Munich, Germany, 7-23-1983

I recently got a request to post more Supertramp music, so here you go. I very much would have liked to post a BBC concert from the last tours with Roger Hodgson, who wrote and sang the majority of the band's hits (with Rick Davies writing and singing the rest). However, I can't find any BBC concerts from those tours in 1979 and 1983, so probably they didn't happen. The 1979 tour is already well represented with the official live album "Paris." But there's no such album from the 1983 tour. So this bootleg serves that role.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Hodgson leaving Supertramp:

"In 1981, Hodgson moved his family from Los Angeles to northern California, where he built a home studio and began contemplating solo recordings. The rest of Supertramp remained in Los Angeles and the geographic separation created a rift between them and Hodgson; feuding was virtually non-existent, but the group harmony was lost. Hodgson felt increasingly constrained in the group context, and during the [1983 tour] he made the decision to leave Supertramp. He has denied any real problems in his relationship with Davies as speculated."

If you listen to the banter between songs in this recording, at one point Hodgson told the crowd that this was his last concert with Supertramp. That wasn't actually true, since the tour continued for a couple more months. Probably, he said something like that at every concert, meaning this was the last time people in that location would hear him with Supertramp. The rest of the band continued without him (though that's a bit like Pink Floyd continuing without Roger Waters). He never did get back with them for a reunion tour or anything like that.

The sound quality here is excellent, as good as an official live album. This is probably the best sounding bootleg from this tour. There were no problems for me to fix.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long.

01 Crazy (Supertramp)
02 Ain't Nobody but Me (Supertramp)
03 talk (Supertramp)
04 Breakfast in America (Supertramp)
05 Bloody Well Right (Supertramp)
06 It's Raining Again (Supertramp)
07 Put on Your Old Brown Shoes (Supertramp)
08 talk (Supertramp)
09 Hide in Your Shell (Supertramp)
10 Waiting So Long (Supertramp)
11 talk (Supertramp)
12 Give a Little Bit (Supertramp)
13 From Now On (Supertramp)
14 The Logical Song (Supertramp)
15 Goodbye Stranger (Supertramp)
16 Dreamer (Supertramp)
17 Rudy (Supertramp)
18 Fool's Overture (Supertramp)
19 talk (Supertramp)
20 School (Supertramp)
21 Crime of the Century (Supertramp) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zcZanQQE 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5KxV2E9fdnhDrWF/file

The cover photo shows the band on the German TV show "Auf Los Gehts Los" in 1983.

The Clash - Lyceum Ballroom, London, Britain, 1-3-1979

The Clash is one of my favorite bands, and I really enjoy hearing live recordings from them, but only when the sound quality is excellent. So I'm posting this bootleg, even though it's pretty similar to another one I've already posted, because live Clash that sounds this good needs to get more attention.

The other concert I've posted already that's pretty similar is from the Agora in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 13, 1979. That's only a month after this concert, so the set lists are fairly similar. But there are enough differences to make both worthwhile.

Note that this concert is just three days into 1979. So while the Clash's big release that year was the "London Calling" double album, that came out at the very end of the year, so there's nothing from that here. Instead, the Clash's second studio album "Give 'Em Enough Rope" had just been released two months earlier, in November 1978, so the set list heavily relied on that.

This bootleg is a soundboard, one of probably only a handful by the band that sound this good. But I've managed to improve the sound quality a little more. The lead vocals were a low in the mix, not by a lot, but I boosted them up to the right level using the MVSEP audio editing program. On a couple of songs, the vocals tended to drop in and out, maybe because the singer was getting too far from the microphone at times. So I went through those line by line and boosted the quiet parts. Some lines were just too quiet to fix, but I improved a lot of them. That's why "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" and "Complete Control" have "[Edit]" in their titles.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Safe European Home (Clash)
02 I Fought the Law (Clash)
03 talk (Clash)
04 Jail Guitar Doors (Clash)
05 Drug-Stabbing Time (Clash)
06 talk (Clash)
07 City of the Dead (Clash)
08 Clash City Rockers (Clash)
09 Tommy Gun (Clash)
10 [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais [Edit] (Clash)
11 talk (Clash)
12 English Civil War (Clash)
13 talk (Clash)
14 Stay Free (Clash)
15 Cheapskates (Clash)
16 Julie's in the Drug Squad (Clash)
17 talk (Clash)
18 Police and Thieves (Clash)
19 Capital Radio (Clash)
20 Janie Jones (Clash)
21 Garageland (Clash)
22 Complete Control [Edit] (Clash)
23 London's Burning (Clash)
24 White Riot (Clash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wf7R47cs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IJOKQHEHrj6vqig/file

The cover photo is from the "Tribal Stomp II" concert in Monterey, California, in September 1979. I darkened some parts of it to give it more of a nighttime feel.

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 14: In Concert, Maida Vale Studios, London, Britain, 9-18-2002

Here's yet another David Bowie BBC album. And even now, I'm still not done, with one more to go.

This album is about an hour long, and there are many cases when the BBC takes a longer concert and edits it down to fit an hour-long time slot. But this isn't such a case. I found a review of this concert that confirms this is the entire show. From that article, I also found out that the concert was done mainly for the BBC radio broadcast, with only about 100 people in the audience.

The concert took place three months after the release of Bowie's album "Heathen," so naturally he played some songs from it. But he also played a couple of rarities, along with the usual classic hits. Most interestingly, he performed "The Bewley Brothers." This song first appeared on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory." But apparently, he'd never performed it in concert before, due to lots of hard to remember lyrics. He did it here with a lyric sheet in hand. According to setlist.fm, this was the first time he'd played it in concert, and he only played it four more times after this. 

I believe everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk by Jonathan Ross (David Bowie)
02 Sunday (David Bowie)
03 talk (David Bowie)
04 Look Back in Anger (David Bowie)
05 talk (David Bowie)
06 Cactus (David Bowie)
07 talk (David Bowie)
08 Survive (David Bowie)
09 talk (David Bowie)
10 5.15 The Angels Have Gone (David Bowie)
11 talk (David Bowie)
12 Alabama Song [Whisky Bar] (David Bowie)
13 talk (David Bowie)
14 Everyone Says 'Hi' (David Bowie)
15 talk (David Bowie)
16 Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)
17 talk (David Bowie)
18 The Bewlay Brothers (David Bowie)
19 talk (David Bowie)
20 Heathen [The Rays] (David Bowie)
21 talk (David Bowie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vQnSgxWH

alternate:

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

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

Bob Dylan - Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA, 2-9-2002

When it comes to posting music by Bob Dylan, I have been working my way chronologically through his career. As I write this in January 2025, I've only made it to the late 1970s, so I have a long way to go. But I'm posting this concert from 2002 way out of chronological order because I only recently discovered it, and I think it's fantastic.

From the late 1980s onward, Dylan has toured a remarkable degree, and he's still going today as I write this. But since the late 1990s, there have been almost no soundboard bootlegs, no FM radio concert broadcasts, and no official live albums that weren't archival from previous decades. So, if you've wanted to hear his concerts from at least 2000 onwards, you've had to cope with audience bootlegs that sometimes sound good, but never great.

However, this concert is a staggering exception. It's one of only two soundboard bootlegs from him after 2000 that I know of. The sound quality and performance is so good that there's even a Rolling Stone Magazine article about it, written in 2021. The title of the article is "Hear a Pristine Recording of a Stunning 2002 Bob Dylan Concert," and it's basically a plea to listen to this show.

Here's some excerpts from that article:

[This bootleg] was reportedly sourced to an Assisted Listening Device connected straight to the soundboard, which explains why the sound quality is absolutely perfect. Simply put, it sounds just about as good as any official live album. The show also captured Dylan during a peak era of the Never Ending Tour. This was just five months after "Love and Theft" hit stores, and the new songs infused the show with incredible energy and purpose. Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell are two of the best guitarists he’s ever played with, and he gave them a lot of freedom to stretch out and even harmonize with him on the vocals.

The song selection is excellent, mixing the Love and Theft tunes with hits like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Like a Rolling Stone," deeper cuts like "Drifter’s Escape" and "My Back Pages," and traditional folk covers like "Searching for a Soldier’s Grave" and set opener "I Am the Man, Thomas." And while his vocals are no match for the heights he reached back in 1966, 1975, or 1980, they’re crisp, clear, and haunting. 

Hear a Pristine Recording of a Stunning 2002 Bob Dylan Concert

I agree with all that. But there was one big problem with the recording, which I have now fixed. Namely, the recording caught what happened on stage perfectly, but at the cost of virtually no audience noise whatsoever. When each song ended, you basically just heard silence, which is weird for a concert. Thankfully, now there are many ways to edit audio files. First, I split each song into crowd noise and everything else using the MVSEP program. The crowd noise part was basically a flat line when I looked at it in Audacity. For some songs, I literally would have to zoom in to see anything there at all. But I tried increasing the volume of the cheering after each song, by ten or twenty times or more. For normal recordings, this wouldn't work, because one would get an overwhelming amount of hiss. But this recording was so pristine that it actually worked really well. After I joined the crowd noise back with the music, the result has the crowd cheering a normal level after every song. And it's exactly what was really there, just buried, as opposed to many times where I've had to paste in cheering from the ends of other songs and things like that.

So even if you have a recording of this concert already, I highly suggest you get this one. And if you're a fan of Dylan's live performances at all, this is a "must have," for all the reasons mentioned in the Rolling Stone article.

This album is two hours and 20 minutes long.

01 I Am the Man, Thomas (Bob Dylan)
02 My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)
03 It's Alright Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Bob Dylan)
04 Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Bob Dylan)
05 Lonesome Day Blues (Bob Dylan)
06 Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
07 Floater (Bob Dylan)
08 High Water [For Charley Patton] (Bob Dylan)
09 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)
10 Masters of War (Bob Dylan)
11 Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
12 Summer Days (Bob Dylan)
13 Sugar Baby (Bob Dylan)
14 Drifter's Escape (Bob Dylan)
15 Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 (Bob Dylan)
16 Things Have Changed (Bob Dylan)
17 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
18 Forever Young (Bob Dylan)
19 Honest with Me (Bob Dylan)
20 Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan)
21 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UpMdJ2zL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/eFnEN5WXekqSuBm/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Bournemouth, Britain, on May 5, 2002.

Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, & Roger Cook - Songwriters' Circle, Porchester Hall, London, Britain, 10-14-2011

I recently got a couple requests to post a BBC album by Buffy Sainte-Marie. I looked, and it seems there's only a couple of songs here and there, not nearly enough for an album. However, I remembered I have this, and I've been trying to make a point of posting more of these interesting "Songwriters' Circle" concerts. So here you are, with Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Roger Cook.

As usual, this BBC TV program brought together three talented and famous singer-songwriters, and had them take turns performing their own songs in solo acoustic mode. In this case more than most episodes of this show, I feel the three musicians liked each other and the music they made. One can hear this with some of the between-song banter, as well as they way they supported each other on some songs with backing vocals and such. In the case of Donovan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, their musical connection went way back, because Donovan covered Sainte-Marie's song "Universal Soldier" in 1965 and had a hit with it, which was the first big commercial success for both him and Sainte-Marie.

I've posted a lot of Donovan's music at this blog already, with more planned to come, so I don't feel the need to introduce him. Sainte-Marie was one of the most famous female singer-songwriters in the 1960s and 70s. But while she had some success with her own songs, for instance "Soldier Blue" reached the Top Ten in Britain and many other countries in 1971, she's had more success with others covering her songs. The most prominent example of this is "Up Where We Belong." She started it, and it was finished off by two professional songwriters. A duet version by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes reached Number One in the U.S. singles chart in 1982, and was one of the biggest hits of the year.

I'm writing this in 2025. In recent years, Sainte-Marie has faced controversy because she prominently identified as Native American for her entire music career, but a 2023 investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) concluded that this wasn't true, and she is of English and Italian descent. She has since stated, "My mother told me that I was adopted and that I was Native, but there was no documentation as was common for Indigenous children at the time," and "I don't know where I'm from or who my birth parents are, and I will never know." She hasn't attempted to settle the dispute by publicly posting DNA results.

Here's her Wikipedia page if you want to know more:

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Wikipedia

Roger Cook never had a successful music career of his own. However, he was an extremely successful professional songwriter, writing dozens of hits from the 1960s to the 1980s, often in partnership with Roger Greenaway. I would say more, except I plan on posting his hits in my "Covered" songwriter series. So I'll wait for more of an explanation there.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Roger Cook (songwriter) - Wikipedia

This unreleased concert has been available as a video on YouTube, but I haven't seen it as an audio bootleg. I found a high quality version of the video and converted that to audio, and broke it into mp3s.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
02 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
03 Until It's Time for You to Go (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
04 talk (Roger Cook)
05 Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (Roger Cook)
06 talk (Donovan)
07 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
08 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
09 Codine (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
10 talk (Roger Cook)
11 You've Got Your Troubles (Roger Cook)
12 talk (Donovan)
13 Colours (Donovan)
14 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
15 Little Wheel Spin and Spin (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
16 talk (Roger Cook)
17 Talking in Your Sleep (Roger Cook)
18 talk (Donovan)
19 Lalena (Donovan)
20 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
21 I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
22 talk (Roger Cook)
23 I Believe in You (Roger Cook)
24 talk (Donovan)
25 Mellow Yellow (Donovan)
26 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
27 Up Where We Belong (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
28 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
29 Universal Soldier (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
30 talk (Roger Cook)
31 I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (Roger Cook)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZPW7vK93

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/Anj3vGR3SMp1NMU/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a YouTube video, so the quality isn't the best. I improved it slightly with the Krea AI program.

The Style Council - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-22-1985

Here's yet another renumbering screw-up. I keep finding things mainly through people sharing music via SoulseekQT. Some are on my wanted list, but most I just stumble upon. Like this one. It turned out Paul Weller's 1980s band the Style Council played the annual Glastonbury Festival one time, in 1985. That also happened to be the first year the BBC broadcast some sets from the festival, including this one.

The Style Council never made much of a commercial impact in the U.S., but they were big in Britain. They actually hit their commercial peak the very same month of this concert, when their 1985 album "Our Favourite Shop" reached Number One in the British album chart. So naturally, this concert featured lots of songs from that album. In fact, ten of the songs here were from it.

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from a BBC recording. I don't think any of this has been officially released.

I mentioned above that I had to renumber the Style Council concert that came after this. If you want the renumbered Volume 4, with updated cover art and such, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-style-council-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Internationalists (Style Council)
02 Homebreakers (Style Council)
03 Come to Milton Keynes (Style Council)
04 talk (Style Council)
05 See the Day (Style Council)
06 The Lodgers [Or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter] (Style Council)
07 The Whole Point II (Style Council)
08 Our Favourite Shop (Style Council)
09 talk (Style Council)
10 Long Hot Summer (Style Council)
11 [When You] Call Me (Style Council)
12 Walls Come Tumbling Down (Style Council)
13 Money-Go-Round (Style Council)
14 Strength of Your Nature (Style Council)
15 It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands (Style Council)
16 The Stand Up Comic's Instructions (Style Council)
17 The Big Boss Groove (Style Council)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/D2qaFFAr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tAc2HDURJlO2AZI/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I happened to find a few. I decided to go with a rather unusual one for variety's sake, instead of just showing a close-up of lead singer Paul Weller or something like that. (Weller is the guy on stage with a raised fist.)

Roxy Music - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 8-2-1980

I screwed up again! I missed a Roxy Music BBC concert, so I'll have to do some renumbering (yet again). But I'm actually happy when I make mistakes like this, because it shows there's more excellent music to be posted. In this case, I'd already posted Roxy Music concerts from 1982 and 2001. Those were Volumes 5 and 6, and now they're getting renumbered to Volumes 6 and 7. 

The new "Volume 5" is a full concert from 1980. I'd already posted a "Volume 4" concert from 1979. The main difference between that one and this one is the band released the album "Flesh and Blood" in the meantime. So naturally a bunch of songs were played from that album, including the hits "Oh Yeah," "Same Old Scene," and "Over You."

This isn't the exact BBC recording. What actually got played on the radio was an hour-long edit of this show. Furthermore, a few of the songs were from a concert a few days earlier. But eventually a soundboard bootleg of the full show became public, with just as good sound quality as the radio broadcast. So I figure why not use that? 

Remember that I mentioned above how I renumbered the recently posted 1982 and 2001 shows. If you want the revised versions, with updated cover art and such, here are the links:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/roxy-music-bbc-sessions-volume-5-high.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/roxy-music-bbc-sessions-volume-6-in.html

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 South Downs [Instrumental] (Roxy Music)
02 The Bogus Man (Roxy Music)
03 Trash (Roxy Music)
04 Both Ends Burning (Roxy Music)
05 Rain Rain Rain (Roxy Music)
06 Flesh and Blood (Roxy Music)
07 Oh Yeah (Roxy Music)
08 A Song for Europe (Roxy Music)
09 Dance Away (Roxy Music)
10 Same Old Scene (Roxy Music)
11 talk (Roxy Music)
12 My Only Love (Roxy Music)
13 talk (Roxy Music)
14 Over You (Roxy Music)
15 Eight Miles High (Roxy Music)
16 Love Is the Drug (Roxy Music)
17 talk (Roxy Music)
18 The Thrill of It All (Roxy Music)
19 talk (Roxy Music)
20 Do the Strand (Roxy Music)
21 Editions of You (Roxy Music)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YJ3ojmeM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/YfDzHrLucxuI9bU/file

The cover photo comes a Roxy Music concert at the Wembley Arena in 1980. But I don't know if it's from this exact concert, since the band performed there the two previous nights as well.

Dave Edmunds - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Freilichtbuhne Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany, 8-20-1983

I just posted BBC concert albums from Joe Cocker and the Steve Miller Band that took place on this same date and location. There was kind of a mini rock festival in Germany on this day, with sets by U2, Dave Edmunds, the Stray Cats, Cocker, and Miller. As I explained in those previous posts, all the sets were broadcast both on the German TV program "Rockpalast" and on BBC radio. So here's the Dave Edmunds set too.

I consider myself fortunate to have found this bootleg when I did, because it's saved me from posting something else. I'd already posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" concert from Edmunds, which took place in 1982. I had a "Volume 2" ready to go, but it was a different 1983 concert. It was a "BBC Rock Hour" concert that took place in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in July 1983. But that concert recording is inferior to this one in every way. It's shorter, only 35 minutes long. And basically all the songs are the same, except there were fewer of them. But most importantly, this one has noticeably better sound quality. So that one has gone in my trash and this is now "Volume 2."

Although only one year had passed since "Volume 1," Edmunds had released a studio album in the meantime, 1983's "Information." It had two medium hits on it, "Slipping Away" (written by Jeff Lynne of E.L.O.) and "Information" (written by Edmunds and a professional songwriter, and produced by Lynne). Those would be the last significant hits for Edmunds. Perhaps due to his declining sales, I don't know of any BBC concerts by him after this.

Billy Bremner, who was in the band Rockpile with Edmunds and Nick Lowe in the late 1970s, was in Edmunds' band at this time. Just as was the case with Rockpile, Bremner was allowed to occasionally sing a song. He put out his first solo album in 1983. He sang the main single from that, "Loud Music in Cars," which isn't on any Edmunds studio album.

As I previously mentioned, I plan on also posting the Stray Cats set from this concert (but not the U2 one because it's too similar to another one I've already posted). However, that'll be "BBC Sessions, Volume 3" for the Stray Cats, so I want to post Volumes One and Two first.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 From Small Things Big Things Come (Dave Edmunds)
02 Dear Dad (Dave Edmunds)
03 Sweet Little Lisa (Dave Edmunds)
04 talk (Dave Edmunds)
05 Loud Music in Cars (Dave Edmunds)
06 talk (Dave Edmunds)
07 Girls Talk (Dave Edmunds)
08 Don't You Double (Dave Edmunds)
09 talk (Dave Edmunds)
10 Queen of Hearts (Dave Edmunds)
11 talk (Dave Edmunds)
12 I Don't Wanna Be in Love (Dave Edmunds)
13 I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds)
14 Trouble Boys (Dave Edmunds)
15 talk (Dave Edmunds)
16 You Ain't Nothing but Fine (Dave Edmunds)
17 talk (Dave Edmunds)
18 I Knew the Bride [When She Used to Rock and Roll] (Dave Edmunds)
19 talk (Dave Edmunds)
20 Information (Dave Edmunds)
21 Slipping Away (Dave Edmunds)
22 Crawling from the Wreckage (Dave Edmunds)
23 Ju Ju Man (Dave Edmunds)
24 Let's Talk about Us (Dave Edmunds)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jpHZpG3w

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2FLmDkMHH0y3PUq/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I took it from a screenshot of a YouTube video.

The Steve Miller Band - BBC In Concert, Freilichtbuhne Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany, 8-20-1983

I just posted a Joe Cocker concert on the same date and location a few minutes ago. I thought it would be fun to post different sets from the same show. The Steve Miller Band was the headlining act.

As I explained with the Cocker post, there was kind of a mini-rock festival here. Five major music acts: U2, Dave Edmunds, the Stray Cats, Joe Cocker, and the Steve Miller Band, all performed from the same stage. Curiously, the entire show was broadcast not only on the German TV show "Rockpalast," but also on a special long edition of the BBC TV Show "In Concert." I hadn't thought the Steve Miller Band ever performed any concerts for the BBC, but we get at least this one through that unusual circumstance.

It makes sense Miller was the headlining act, because he was very popular at the time. After having lots of hit songs in the 1970s, he had the biggest hit of his career in 1982 with "Abracadabra." Not only did it reach Number One in the singles chart in the U.S. and many other countries, it was one of the top ten most popular singles that year. (Note that had this concert taken place a few years later, the order certainly would have been different. Miller never had another Top Forty hit, while U2 became superstars in 1987.)

This is a lucky time for a BBC concert, since it's at the end of his really popular years. He played most of the big hits from earlier albums that you'd expect, while also emphasizing the blues with virtually all the non-hit songs. "Abracadabra" was such a massive hit that he actually performed it twice, as the first song and the last song. Most versions of this bootleg don't have the second version, probably because someone along the way decided it was unnecessary. But I found a version that did have it. The sound quality of that song is a little worse than the rest.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
02 talk (Steve Miller Band)
03 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
04 talk (Steve Miller Band)
05 You You You (Steve Miller Band)
06 talk (Steve Miller Band)
07 Out of the Night (Steve Miller Band)
08 Livin' in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
09 Hoodoo Hoodoo (Steve Miller Band)
10 Just a Little Bit (Steve Miller Band)
11 Buffalo's Serenade [Instrumental] (Steve Miller Band)
12 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Keeps Me Wondering Why (Steve Miller Band)
15 talk (Steve Miller Band)
16 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
17 talk (Steve Miller Band)
18 Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band)
19 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band)
20 Macho City (Steve Miller Band)
21 talk (Steve Miller Band)
22 Honey Hush (Steve Miller Band)
23 My Babe (Steve Miller Band)
24 You Know What I Mean (Steve Miller Band)
25 Look on Yonder Wall (Steve Miller Band)
26 Space Cowboy (Steve Miller Band)
27 Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
28 talk (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/f1LsgtnH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QmakR39GRsbCgDg/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot taken from a YouTube video.

Joe Cocker - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Freilichtbuhne Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany, 8-20-1983

If you think I've posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 3" from Joe Cocker before, you're not wrong. I previously posted a 1986 concert with that name. But I recently discovered this, so the 1986 one will get renamed "Volume 4."

Here's a link to that, if you want to get the updated cover art and mp3 tags and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/04/joe-cocker-bbc-sessions-volume-3-in.html

It was easy for this one to slip my notice, because this concert was actually part of a single-day rock festival broadcast in full by the German TV program "Rockpalast." But for some reason, the BBC weekly radio show "In Concert" had a special day where they also broadcast the festival in full, making it fair game for me. The other musical acts in the festival were U2, Dave Edmunds, Steve Miller, and the Stray Cats. I plan on posting all their sets here too, except for U2, which I'm leaving out because they played pretty much the exact same set they did for their "Under a Blood Red Sky..." live album and their 1982 BBC concert that I've posted already.

This concert came at a good time for Cocker, because his commercial fortunes were drastically improved in 1982, due to his duet with Jennifer Warnes on the song "Up Where We Belong." Not only was that a Number One hit in the U.S., it was one of a handful of the biggest singles of the year. Given the popularity of that song, I was very surprised that he didn't perform it in this concert. Perhaps that's because it was a duet and he didn't have a female like Warnes on hand to duet with. But I think it's more likely he simply didn't want to play it. He had a problem that that very poppy song (from a movie soundtrack) didn't fit with the kind of music he was putting out on his studio albums at the time. In fact, not long after it reached the top of the charts, he was dropped by his record label and had to find a new one! It seems he rarely played it in 1982 and 1983, though he played it more often in later years.

But while I was looking up information about that song, I was pleased to see how Jennifer Warnes came to choose Cocker to do the duet with. She happened to catch him perform a song on TV in 1982, and saw that he was musically revitalized after many years of struggle. She said, "I was so moved, I was hollering out loud with joy, jumping up and down ... After a difficult battle with drugs and alcohol, Joe was in total command once again. I knew at that moment that I would sing with Joe." So that's why I'm saying this was a good time for Cocker, musically.

Cocker's most recent album at the time was "Sheffield Steel," released in 1982. But he only played two songs from that, "Seven Days" (by Bob Dylan) and "Many Rivers to Cross" (by Jimmy Cliff).

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 A Girl like You (Joe Cocker)
02 Feelin' Alright (Joe Cocker)
03 A Whiter Shade of Pale (Joe Cocker)
04 Inner City Blues (Joe Cocker)
05 Don't Talk to Me (Joe Cocker)
06 Just like Always (Joe Cocker)
07 Many Rivers to Cross (Joe Cocker)
08 talk (Joe Cocker)
09 Threw It Away (Joe Cocker)
10 Seven Days (Joe Cocker)
11 Watching the River Flow (Joe Cocker)
12 With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker)
13 You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker)
14 The Letter (Joe Cocker)
15 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Joe Cocker)
16 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Joe Cocker)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/L14KuLyY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/VDgzcAyCvt5IuWq/file

The cover photo is from the ARMS Benefit concert in Dallas in 1983. I've posted that concert at this blog.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2010

Here is the fifth, and probably last, BBC album by Jackson Browne that I plan on posting. I say "probably" because I keep finding ones that I'd missed, and Browne has played so many thousands of concerts that he's the type where some things could get missed.

This concert is from the annual, massive Glastonbury Festival. The BBC broadcasts a great amount of material from Glastonbury most every year, but not everything. In this case, it's clear that this isn't the full show, but was edited down to an hour-long time slot. I found at least one other song on YouTube Browne did that wasn't included. (I didn't include it either, due to poor sound quality.) Normally, some missing songs isn't that big of a deal, but it's very likely that nearly all of the between-song banter was edited out too, and that's more of a bummer since that's a big part of his concerts.

But at least what we have here sounds great, despite being officially unreleased. I didn't have to make any audio edits. You can find the full video of this on YouTube (with the same edits).

At the time of the concert, Browne didn't really have a new studio album to support. His most recent one, "Time the Conqueror," came out in 2008. Only one song from that was included here, "Off to Wonderland." But probably more were played but got cut by the BBC.

By the way, Browne played the Glastonbury Festival once before, in 1982 (as he commented in the one bit of banter that didn't get edited out). But that was before Glastonbury sets started to get played often on the BBC, so I don't have a good recording of that. (From what I can figure out, that started in 1985, but was still intermittent until the 1990s.)

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Off to Wonderland (Jackson Browne)
02 talk (Jackson Browne)
03 Barricades of Heaven (Jackson Browne)
04 Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne)
05 Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
06 I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)
07 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
08 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
09 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
10 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
11 I Am a Patriot (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vVYknxwH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iTwTmRo0Ixvbjh2/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

The Everly Brothers - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Manchester Apollo, Manchester, Britain, 5-24-1997

A while back, I posted an album of BBC studio sessions by the Everly Brothers done in the 1960s and early 1970s. That was all I could find at the time when it came to the Everly Brothers and the BBC. But then I discovered this unreleased 1997 BBC concert.

1997 is later than I'd prefer for this duo. Their hit-making days were long over. But they were in their fifties, and their vocal powers hadn't diminished yet. Plus, they were supported on lead guitar by the very talented Albert Lee.

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. In terms of set list, there aren't many surprises - nearly every song is a classic hit from the 1950s or 60s.

By the way, since I found this one, I renamed the earlier BBC collection "Volume 1," and updated the cover art and mp3 tags. If you want that updated version, you can find it here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-everly-brothers-bbc-sessions-1963.html

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Green River (Everly Brothers)
02 Kentucky (Everly Brothers)
03 Bowling Green (Everly Brothers)
04 talk (Everly Brothers)
05 So Sad [To Watch Good Love Go Bad] (Everly Brothers)
06 Claudette (Everly Brothers)
07 talk (Everly Brothers)
08 Crying in the Rain (Everly Brothers)
09 When Will I Be Loved (Everly Brothers)
10 Ebony Eyes - He Stopped Loving Her Today (Everly Brothers)
11 talk (Everly Brothers)
12 Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers)
13 All I Have to Do Is Dream (Everly Brothers)
14 talk (Everly Brothers)
15 Long Time Gone (Everly Brothers)
16 Blues Stay Away from Me (Everly Brothers)
17 'Til I Kissed You (Everly Brothers)
18 Walk Right Back (Everly Brothers)
19 Cathy's Clown (Everly Brothers)
20 Wake Up, Little Susie (Everly Brothers)
21 Lucille (Everly Brothers)
22 talk (Everly Brothers)
23 Let It Be Me (Everly Brothers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jjcioVYs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/E1gtBbruRuJAHId/file

The cover photo is from 2000. I found a few photos from 1997, but I liked this one better.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 10: In Concert, Braehead Arena, Glasgow, Britain, 10-16-2002

Here's yet another Paul Weller album for the BBC. This time, it's a full band concert from 2002.

Weller is someone who knows the value of getting promoted by the BBC. I've already posted seven BBC albums he did with the Jam, three more with the Style Council, and this is the tenth for him as a solo artist. Plus, I recently found another Style Council one (which I plan on posting soon), and I have another ten solo ones planned (at least). When all is said and done, I'll probably post more BBC albums by him than any other musical act.

And there's even more that I could post, but I won't. In particular, the official box set "At the BBC" has some incomplete concerts with all the banter removed. I'm generally avoiding those if I can find others from the same general era that are full concerts. 

That's what I've done here. This is within the time period of the box set, but it wasn't included on it. So everything here is officially unreleased. It's a full concert, with banter, that was nonetheless broadcast by the BBC. I posted one from just the year before. But that was a solo acoustic concert, whereas this is with a full band.

A month prior to this concert, Weller had released the studio album "Illumination," so naturally there are some songs here from that. But he also played songs from the Jam and the Style Council as well as from earlier in his solo career.

The album is two hours and eight minutes long.

01 talk (Paul Weller)
02 A Bullet for Everyone (Paul Weller)
03 Into Tomorrow (Paul Weller)
04 Bull Rush (Paul Weller)
05 It's Written in the Stars (Paul Weller)
06 talk (Paul Weller)
07 Going Places (Paul Weller)
08 talk (Paul Weller)
09 Friday Street (Paul Weller)
10 talk (Paul Weller)
11 Man in the Cornershop (Paul Weller)
12 talk (Paul Weller)
13 Now the Night Is Here (Paul Weller)
14 Leafy Mysteries (Paul Weller)
15 talk (Paul Weller)
16 One X One (Paul Weller)
17 talk (Paul Weller)
18 Hung Up (Paul Weller)
19 Sunflower (Paul Weller)
20 talk (Paul Weller)
21 In the Crowd (Paul Weller)
22 Broken Stones (Paul Weller)
23 talk (Paul Weller)
24 Picking Up Sticks (Paul Weller)
25 talk (Paul Weller)
26 Bag Man (Paul Weller)
27 talk (Paul Weller)
28 Who Brings Joy (Paul Weller)
29 talk (Paul Weller)
30 Down in the Seine (Paul Weller)
31 talk (Paul Weller)
32 A Man of Great Promise (Paul Weller)
33 Brand New Start (Paul Weller)
34 talk (Paul Weller)
35 All Good Books (Paul Weller)
36 talk (Paul Weller)
37 Can You Heal Us [Holy Man] (Paul Weller)
38 talk (Paul Weller)
39 Porcelain Gods (Paul Weller)
40 talk (Paul Weller)
41 Pretty Green (Paul Weller)
42 Whirlpool's End (Paul Weller)
43 talk (Paul Weller)
44 The Changingman (Paul Weller)
45 talk (Paul Weller)
46 Peacock Suit (Paul Weller)
47 Town Called Malice (Paul Weller)
48 talk (Paul Weller)
49 Standing Out in the Universe (Paul Weller)
50 talk (Paul Weller)
51 Wild Wood (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2Yv9g4Ch

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Mp7NCv3QFbzZ17a/file

The cover photo comes from a concert in Hyde Park, London, in July 2002.

Richie Havens - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1967-1971

Here's a collection of acoustic BBC studio sessions by Richie Havens.

The first three songs here aren't actually from the BBC. But they're unreleased, with excellent sound quality, and are from a very early time in his career, so I figure they're historically important. They're from an appearance on the "Gene Shay's Folklore" radio show in Philadelphia in 1967.

The next three songs, tracks four to six, are from an appearance on BBC DJ John Peel's radio show in May 1968. Then the next four songs, tracks seven to ten, are from another appearance on that same show in June 1968.

So far, everything has been unreleased. But the last three songs have been officially released. They come from the live album "On Stage." This double album has songs from different sources, and according to the liner notes, three of the songs are from a BBC TV show in October 1971. If there's any more of this show, I haven't been able to find it. Since all the other songs on this album don't have any audience noise, I removed the cheering from the last three songs using the MVSEP audio editing program.

Note that I previously posted a Richie Havens BBC concert from 1974. Now that I'm posting this, I've just renamed that one to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2," and changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly. If you want the updated version of that one, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/06/richie-havens-bbc-in-concert-london.html

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

01 San Francisco Bay Blues (Richie Havens)
02 Adam (Richie Havens)
03 Hampstead Incident (Richie Havens)
04 From the Prison (Richie Havens)
05 Just Above My Hobby Horses' Head (Richie Havens)
06 I Can’t Make It Anymore (Richie Havens)
07 Handsome Johnny (Richie Havens)
08 The Things that I Used to Do (Richie Havens)
09 High Flying Bird (Richie Havens)
10 The Dolphins (Richie Havens)
11 Younger Men (Richie Havens)
12 Old Friends (Richie Havens)
13 God Bless the Child (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HQyjt7XE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Gp6bebGmMOwVwFu/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on a TV show in Denmark in 1969.

Rod Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 12-6-1980

I've already posted a bunch of Rod Stewart performing for the BBC. There's an album of him with the mid-1960s band Steampacket, two more as part of the Jeff Beck Group in the late 1960s, seven more as part of the Faces in the early 1970s, and then one solo concert from 1976. Four years later, in 1980, he was a bigger star than ever, thanks to more hit singles, especially "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," which was the fourth best selling single in the U.S. in 1979.

I was a kid at the time, and I remember there was a bit of a Rod Stewart backlash back then, just as there was a Bee Gees backlash. Many people were annoyed that he'd "gone disco," again especially with the unabashedly disco "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy." But you wouldn't really know that from this concert. Yes, he played that song, but very little was disco-y at all. Perhaps the disco craze had ended by late 1980, so Stewart tacked back to basic rock and roll for the most part.

The sound quality is as good as you'd expect from a BBC recording of that era. However, I noticed one problem, which was that usually there was almost no time whatsoever between songs. Often there was just a second or two of cheering before the next song would start. Sometimes, performers do that on purpose, but this didn't sound natural, because often there would be an abrupt switch from loud cheering to a quieter level. So, where I felt appropriate, I added more cheering.

"Get Back," a cover of the Beatles classic, has "[Edit]" in the title. That's because there was a couple seconds of silence in the middle of the song. Luckily, it was in a spot that got repeated elsewhere, so I was able to patch that up with a bit of a different part of the song.

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long.

01 Hot Legs (Rod Stewart)
02 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Rod Stewart)
03 talk (Rod Stewart)
04 Tonight's the Night [Gonna Be Alright] (Rod Stewart)
05 talk (Rod Stewart)
06 You're in My Heart [The Final Acclaim] (Rod Stewart)
07 [If Loving You Is Wrong] I Don't Want to Be Right (Rod Stewart)
08 talk (Rod Stewart)
09 She Won't Dance with Me (Rod Stewart)
10 talk (Rod Stewart)
11 Passion (Rod Stewart)
12 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
13 Carol (Rod Stewart)
14 Da Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart)
15 You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart)
16 I Was Only Joking (Rod Stewart)
17 This Old Heart of Mine [Is Weak for You] (Rod Stewart)
18 Get Back [Edit] (Rod Stewart)
19 The Killing of Georgie [Part I and II] (Rod Stewart)
20 talk (Rod Stewart)
21 Stay with Me (Rod Stewart)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/43jfnZfT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zO4SmzdgHtIBNM8/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. He did a series of shows at the Wembley Arena in December 1980, and the photo is from the December 3, 1980 concert there. I found a bunch of photos from that one, actually. I chose this one because I thought the audience interaction was nice and a bit unusual.

Van Morrison - The Orphanage, San Francisco, CA, 7-29-1974

Before I post more BBC albums by Van Morrison, I have to post this concert. I just found it, and I'm very glad I did, because the sound quality is exceptional, especially for the time period.

As for the performance, the fact that it's from 1974 should tell you all you need to know. Morrison was on fire in concert during that era. Here's what Wikipedia had to say about a live album he recorded a year earlier: "Frequently named as one of the best live albums ever, 'It's Too Late to Stop Now' was recorded during what has often been said to be the singer's greatest phase as a live performer." He was still in that groove in 1974.

This is from an FM radio broadcast. One can tell by the introduction by a DJ named Tom Donahue. No doubt, that explains the sound quality. I made a few subtle audio editing tricks to improve the sound quality a little more.

Also, most versions of this bootleg have appeared without the last song, "Gloria." But I managed to track that down from a different source of the same show and add it in.

In terms of song selection, this is pretty similar to "It's Too Late to Stop Now" and some other live stuff I've posted from him from this time period. But see above about how he was at his performing peak around this time. Note that this concert took place a few months before the release of his 1974 album "Veedon Fleece," so there are no songs here from that.

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.

01 talk by Tom Donahue (Van Morrison)
02 Heathrow Shuffle [Instrumental] (Van Morrison)
03 Ain't Nothing You Can Do (Van Morrison)
04 Warm Love (Van Morrison)
05 Snow in Anselmo (Van Morrison)
06 Help Me (Van Morrison)
07 Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
08 I Believe to My Soul (Van Morrison)
09 Moondance (Van Morrison)
10 Foggy Mountain Top (Van Morrison)
11 Street Choir (Van Morrison)
12 Listen to the Lion (Van Morrison)
13 I've Been Working (Van Morrison)
14 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Van Morrison)
15 Gloria (Van Morrison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xPmPNkHy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/rxxNnMFOBGEel85/file

The cover is from a 1974 concert, but I don't know the details.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: Reading Festival, Reading, Britain, 8-27-1983

There are still many great musical acts where I haven't even begun to post album from them. Legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is a case in point. He's only shown up so far by chance at a B.B. King concert I've posted. I have plans to post several stray tracks albums from him. But those take a lot of work to prepare. In the meantime, I've found three BBC concerts he performed. So here's the first of them.

Vaughan first burst into the mainstream in 1983 with his first proper studio album, "Texas Flood." It sold two million copies in the U.S. alone. That led to many opportunities, including a Europe tour, which included this concert at a prominent rock festival. 

I don't think anything from this concert has been officially released. However, it's been frequently bootlegged, due to it being broadcast by the BBC at the time.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Testify [Instrumental] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
02 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
03 So Excited [Instrumental] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
04 Voodoo Chile [Slight Return] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
05 Pride and Joy [Edit] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
06 Mary Had a Little Lamb (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
07 Love Struck Baby (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
08 Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
09 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
10 Come On [Part III] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PyKfViQk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hMaXT2xlc3nRGxN/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. The image was a little rough, but I fixed it up with the Krea AI program.

The Bee Gees - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 7-7-1991

At first, I wasn't going to post this, because I had already posted a BBC concert by the Bee Gees from 1989, just two years earlier. But I figure it's better to err on the side of posting more music, not less. Besides, on closer inspection I realized there actually is a pretty different set list here, helped by the fact that this is a considerably longer concert, about half an hour longer than the 1989 one. So here you are.

In March 1991, the Bee Gees released the studio album "High Civilization." So naturally this concert was to help promote that. The album was criticized for its dense production. The Wikipedia entry on the album says its "hard, loud percussion ensured that the drums and beats are loud in the mix, pushing the Bee Gees' vocal harmonies further back. The album favors a dance style with electronic instruments and studio effects, such as programmed drums and synthesizers..." One newspaper review at the time said the vocals were "mixed into oblivion." So this concert is a good chance to hear those songs with less of those trendy production techniques, if only because they're hard to reproduce in concert.

This album is unreleased. Apparently, the concert was broadcast not just in Britain as typical for the BBC, but to many other countries, according to the between-song banter. So the group must have given it their all. A big chunk of the middle of it was largely performed in acoustic mode.

I know of one more BBC concert after this, from 2001, so I plan on posting that soon.

This album is an hour and 44 minutes long.

01 Tragedy (Bee Gees)
02 You Win Again (Bee Gees)
03 I've Gotta Get a Message to You (Bee Gees)
04 talk (Bee Gees)
05 Juliet (Bee Gees)
06 House of Shame (Bee Gees)
07 talk (Bee Gees)
08 The Only Love (Bee Gees)
09 When He's Gone (Bee Gees)
10 talk (Bee Gees)
11 To Love Somebody (Bee Gees)
12 Ghost Train (Bee Gees)
13 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Bee Gees)
14 One (Bee Gees)
15 High Civilization (Bee Gees)
16 Words (Bee Gees)
17 Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees)
18 talk (Bee Gees)
19 Morning of My Life (Bee Gees)
20 And the Sun Will Shine (Bee Gees)
21 World (Bee Gees)
22 Too Much Heaven (Bee Gees)
23 Heartbreaker (Bee Gees)
24 Holiday (Bee Gees)
25 Saved by the Bell (Bee Gees)
26 Run to Me (Bee Gees)
27 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
28 Lonely Days (Bee Gees)
29 Dimension (Bee Gees)
30 I Started a Joke (Bee Gees)
31 Massachusetts (Bee Gees)
32 Secret Love (Bee Gees)
33 Jive Talkin' (Bee Gees)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KdoX3NqQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/QOb7Taf08725Lyu/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Wembley in 1991. But I don't know if it's from this one or a different one, since the band played there multiple times that year.

Cheap Trick - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-5-1980

The more I dig for BBC material, the more I find. I didn't expect to find any BBC concerts for the American band Cheap Trick, but I actually found two. The first one is from 1979 and is rather short, with only okay sound. It also has basically the same songs as "Live at Bukokan," only fewer. So I've skipped that one. But this one from 1980 is more interesting. There's no official live album from around that time. So here it is for you.

At the time of this concert, Cheap Trick had just released their fifth studio album, "All Shook Up," a week or so earlier. So naturally there are a bunch of songs from that. 

This concert is officially unreleased. The sound quality was surprisingly below par, considering it's a BBC concert. I've noticed a great many live albums have the vocals too low in the mix, but that was at least doubly so for this one. But I fixed that, as usual, using the UVR5 audio editing program.

I was very disappointed to find that this concert didn't include the song "Dream Police." It was one of the band's biggest hits, from a year earlier, and it's one of my favorites by them. I checked their 1980 setlists at setlist.fm, and they played that song in every concert, usually as the final encore as part of a medley with "Goodnight." No doubt this was a longer concert, edited down by the BBC. So I found another soundboard bootleg from 1980, and added in those two songs at the end. (Details are in the mp3 tags.) Those songs also had the vocals too long, so I fixed that for them as well.

This album is an hour and three minutes long. Without the two extra songs at the end, it's 57 minutes.

01 Hello There (Cheap Trick)
02 Clock Strikes Ten (Cheap Trick)
03 talk (Cheap Trick)
04 I'll Be with You Tonight (Cheap Trick)
05 Southern Girls (Cheap Trick)
06 California Man (Cheap Trick)
07 talk (Cheap Trick)
08 Stop This Game (Cheap Trick)
09 Baby Loves to Rock (Cheap Trick)
10 talk (Cheap Trick)
11 I Love You Honey but I Hate Your Friends (Cheap Trick)
12 Day Tripper (Cheap Trick)
13 talk (Cheap Trick)
14 Gonna Raise Hell (Cheap Trick)
15 Big Eyes (Cheap Trick)
16 I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick)
17 Surrender (Cheap Trick)
18 Dream Police (Cheap Trick)
19 Goodnight (Cheap Trick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/o4aSDKwF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/8M22hsHJHBTd22n/file

The cover photo shows three members of Cheap Trick at the American Music Awards, in January 1980.

Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-20-1977

Since I've posted one Joan Baez BBC concert already, she's on my list of artists to finish off before I get to posting BBC stuff of other artists. Here's a nice unreleased BBC concert from 1977.

Baez was one of the most popular folk singers of the 1960s, and kept her high popularity going well into the 1970s. She had her second biggest hit of her career in 1975 with the song "Diamonds and Rust." I must say I'm rather surprised that isn't included here. But she did play her biggest hit, a cover of the Band's classic "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Generally, she kept a good acoustic vibe going, and even sang acappella some.

It's so common for lead vocals to be low in the mix, I've noticed, even on BBC recordings sometimes. That was the case again here. So I fixed that in the usual way, using the UVR5 audio editing program.

By the way, I only have one more BBC concert from Baez after this that I've found, from 1999. But I'm pretty sure there are some other BBC concerts by her that I can't find. For instance, I've found mentions of them from 1973 and 1993. If you have any that I don't and want to share, please let me know.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

01 Help Me Make It through the Night (Joan Baez)
02 Farewell, Angelina (Joan Baez)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Honey Love (Joan Baez)
05 talk (Joan Baez)
06 Scarlet Ribbons (Joan Baez)
07 talk (Joan Baez)
08 Virgin Mary (Joan Baez)
09 talk (Joan Baez)
10 Michael (Joan Baez)
11 talk (Joan Baez)
12 Honest Lullaby (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Gracias a la Vida (Joan Baez)
15 talk (Joan Baez)
16 Natalia (Joan Baez)
17 talk (Joan Baez)
18 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Joan Baez)
19 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez)
20 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
21 talk (Joan Baez)
22 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
23 Sweet Sir Galahad (Joan Baez)
24 Kumbaya (Joan Baez)
25 Imagine (Joan Baez)
26 Let It Be (Joan Baez)
27 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
28 talk (Joan Baez)
29 Amazing Grace (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BDkdP4fx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MCGup30nw9lsKSv/file

The cover photo shows Baez at a concert in Santa Barbara in 1977.

Ronnie Lane - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 2-16-1976

Here is the fourth and last album of Ronnie Lane performing for the BBC. It's another BBC concert.

This is another episode of the "In Concert" radio series, with a BBC DJ doing most of the talking between songs. That portion of this album is rather short, 25 minutes, making up tracks two through eleven. I don't know if it's the whole show. Probably not, since there were no introductions of Lane and his band at the beginning. All of those tracks come from the official album "You Never Can Tell." It's possible they didn't include some songs since they were similar to other versions on that album, since it has another BBC concert on it.

Because the concert I had available is rather short, I decided to add a couple of songs to it. The first song, "The Poacher," is an unreleased version from the TV show "Supersonic" in 1976. The last song, "One for the Road," is also unreleased, and comes from the BBC TV show "Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1976. Both of these songs didn't have applause at the end, but I added some so they would fit in with the rest.

Unfortunately, this is the last BBC concert for Lane because his career more or less petered out not long after this. He'd been having health problems since the early 1970s, though he mostly was able to cover them up. But by 1977, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as his condition got worse. His last studio album was released in 1979. He continued to occasionally play and record, but he wasn't nearly as active as he was before. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 51.

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 The Poacher (Ronnie Lane)
02 talk (Ronnie Lane)
03 Don't Try and Change My Mind (Ronnie Lane)
04 talk (Ronnie Lane)
05 Walk On By (Ronnie Lane)
06 talk (Ronnie Lane)
07 You Never Can Tell (Ronnie Lane)
08 talk (Ronnie Lane)
09 Steppin' and Reelin' (Ronnie Lane)
10 talk (Ronnie Lane)
11 Ooh La La (Ronnie Lane)
12 One for the Road (Ronnie Lane)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CS1WsNbN

edit:

https://bestfile.io/en/vK1LtYMkeQ21xdz/file

The cover photo shows Lane at the Great British Music Festival in London in January, 1976.

Help Wanted

As many of you know, I've had some trouble with copyright issues, which has forced me to take some album links down. After a while, I found a workaround with the help of a person who wants to remain anonymous. That person created a website and posted download links there. Then I was able to post links to that. That one step removed process seemed to work, and I didn't have any trouble as a result.

Unfortunately, this person told me recently that he's in very bad health and can't continue helping in this way. Also, the website he currently has with those links will go poof at the end of 2025. So I would love it if anyone else could take on his role. Please let me know if you're interested. Otherwise, I may not be able to share several dozen albums. Thanks.