Rod Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Festival in a Day, Hyde Park, London, Britain, 9-13-2015

Here's the sixth BBC album I'm posting of Rod Stewart performing for the BBC. It's probably the last, unless something I missed pops up. This time, it's a concert from 2015.

I have to be honest. I planned on posting this only due to wanting to be complete in posting the main BBC concerts I'd but I was pleasantly surprised, because it wasn't what I was expecting. For some reason, Stewart decided to avoid performing all of his biggest hits from his career. There's no "Maggie May" here, no "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," no "You're in My Heart," no "The First Cut Is the Deepest," no "Tonight's the Night," and so on. In fact, the website setlist.fm lists the number of times he's played over the entire duration of his solo career. NONE of the top twenty most performed songs in his career were performed in this concert!

Instead, he chose to play hits, but lesser hits that he generally hadn't performed in concert in many years, sometimes decades. So this is an ideal complement to some of the other BBC concerts I've posted from him, with very little overlap. I think that was a great idea. It's too bad more musical acts don't do it. But then again, not many have so many hits that they could play so many songs familiar to the audience while avoiding the best known ones.

There were some interesting choices here. For instance, "In a Broken Dream" was a song by the band Python Lee Jackson, with Stewart singing lead vocals on it. It was released in 1970, and was a Number Three hit in Britain. It still gets played on the radio. However, according to setlist.fm, Stewart only ever performed it in concert three times, and this concert was one of those times. 

Jim Cregan was a special guest on the last song. Cregan was a guitarist and songwriter in many bands. He was a member of Stewart's band for most of the 1980s and 1990s, and co-wrote about 30 songs with him, including some hits.

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 talk by James Corden (Rod Stewart)
02 Every Beat of My Heart (Rod Stewart)
03 talk (Rod Stewart)
04 The Motown Song (Rod Stewart)
05 talk (Rod Stewart)
06 What Am I Gonna Do [I'm So In Love with You] (Rod Stewart)
07 talk (Rod Stewart)
08 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Rod Stewart)
09 talk (Rod Stewart)
10 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Rod Stewart)
11 talk (Rod Stewart)
12 Gasoline Alley (Rod Stewart)
13 talk (Rod Stewart)
14 The Killing of Georgie [Parts I & II] (Rod Stewart)
15 talk (Rod Stewart)
16 Ooh La La (Rod Stewart)
17 talk (Rod Stewart)
18 Tom Traubert's Blues [Waltzing Matilda] (Rod Stewart)
19 talk (Rod Stewart)
20 Please (Rod Stewart)
21 talk (Rod Stewart)
22 Angel (Rod Stewart)
23 talk (Rod Stewart)
24 I'm Every Woman (Rod Stewart)
25 talk (Rod Stewart)
26 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Rod Stewart)
27 In a Broken Dream (Rod Stewart)
28 talk (Rod Stewart)
29 Love Is (Rod Stewart)
30 You Can't Stop Me Now (Rod Stewart)
31 talk (Rod Stewart)
32 I Was Only Joking (Rod Stewart with Jim Cregan)

https://bestfile.io/GdcVFa5XyR0a9ZI/file

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PaoK5rpb

The cover photo is from this exact concert.