John Denver - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: John Denver in Person, Talk of the Town, London, Britain, 4-14-1976

Here's the second of three BBC concerts I've found by John Denver. This one is from 1976, which was probably the peak of his popularity.

Denver was extremely successful in the early to mid-1970s, but that dropped sharply after 1976. As an example, he had nine Top Twenty hits in the US from 1971 to 1976, but none after that. So this is an ideal time for a concert recording. It does a good job serving as a best of, missing only a couple of key hits like "Rocky Mountain High" and "Back Home Again."

This concert is mostly acoustic, but he had other instruments backing him up on some songs, including strings sometimes. The recording quality is excellent, and there's a lot of enthusiastic banter between songs.

Because this wasn't done for the half hour long "In Concert" TV show, it wasn't subject to that short time restriction. But I'd still bet it's only part of a full concert, because it's only 49 minutes long.

UPDATE: In February 2025, I renamed this to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2" after finding an earlier BBC concert by him that I'd missed.

01 talk (John Denver)
02 Starwood in Aspen (John Denver)
03 talk (John Denver)
04 Mother Nature's Son (John Denver)
05 Sunshine on My Shoulder (John Denver)
06 talk (John Denver)
07 Spirit (John Denver)
08 talk (John Denver)
09 Fly Away (John Denver)
10 talk (John Denver)
11 Grandma's Feather Bed (John Denver)
12 Thank God I'm a Country Boy (John Denver)
13 talk (John Denver)
14 Leaving on a Jet Plane (John Denver)
15 talk (John Denver)
16 Calypso (John Denver)
17 talk (John Denver)
18 Annie's Song (John Denver)
19 Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)
20 talk (John Denver)
21 This Old Guitar (John Denver)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7FFvj6Gq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/o15YXCBZopdOomm/file

The cover photo is a screenshot from a YouTube video of this exact concert. In February 2025, I upgraded the image with the use of the Krea AI program.