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.