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.