Monday, May 18, 2026

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: Alan Price, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Britain, 12-8-1980

As I mentioned in the write-up to the previous album in this series, I found a short series of four televised concerts Alan Price did for the BBC in 1980. Here's the second out of those four. 

Each of the concerts had an overall theme to the song selections. For this one, the theme was "social commentary." Most of the songs fit that theme, but a few are a stretch. How does "Bridge Over Trouble Water" belong, especially? In any case, this meant that most of the songs were covers. Only one from the show, "Jarrow Song," was an original.

However, there's a bonus song of sorts here, "The Trimdon Grange Explosion," that is also an original. But it's from a different BBC T.V. show, "Fundamental Frolics," aired in 1981. I figured that fits well here, since it also could be considered a social commentary song.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 Power to the People (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Blowin' in the Wind (Alan Price)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 Political Science (Alan Price)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Big Yellow Taxi (Alan Price & Linda Taylor)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Alan Price)
10 talk (Alan Price)
11 Sunny Afternoon (Alan Price)
12 Imagine (Alan Price)
13 talk (Alan Price)
14 Jarrow Song (Alan Price)
15 The Trimdon Grange Explosion (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3tdqTEUs 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/zxpvn7o4FOizYmr/file

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

1 comment:

  1. just a thought / guess but Bridge Over Troubled Water was very much associated with George McGovern's presidential run against Nixon in 1972 and the whole Vietnam war era

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