Lionel Richie - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2015

Here's the sole BBC album I can find for R&B superstar Lionel Richie. It's a set from the 2015 Glastonbury Festival.

I wasn't looking for anything from Richie, but I saw musical friend Progsprog had this one, so I figured what the heck, and asked for it. I did then look around, and I found it elsewhere, but only as a very large video file. This could be the first time it's being widely shared as an audio bootleg.

This is the only time Richie has appeared at the massive annual Glastonbury Festival. By 2015, he was past his commercial peak. But he sold close to 100 million records in his career, so he still had to be a very popular act at the festival.

As expected, his set mostly consisted of big hits from his time in the Commodores and his solo career. The final song, "We Are the World," was co-written by him and Michael Jackson. 

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

01 Running with the Night (Lionel Richie)
02 Penny Lover (Lionel Richie)
03 talk (Lionel Richie)
04 Easy (Lionel Richie)
05 You Are (Lionel Richie)
06 talk (Lionel Richie)
07 Three Times a Lady (Lionel Richie)
08 talk (Lionel Richie)
09 Brick House - Fire - Brick House (Lionel Richie)
10 talk (Lionel Richie)
11 Stuck on You (Lionel Richie)
12 Lady (Lionel Richie)
13 My Destiny (Lionel Richie)
14 Angel (Lionel Richie)
15 Say You, Say Me (Lionel Richie)
16 talk (Lionel Richie)
17 Dancing on the Ceiling (Lionel Richie)
18 talk (Lionel Richie)
19 Hello (Lionel Richie)
20 All Night Long [All Night] (Lionel Richie)
21 talk (Lionel Richie)
22 We Are the World (Lionel Richie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tfB3eGCw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/OrxATmvNfRZdi2p/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Honoring Lionel Richie, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, 3-9-2022

In the past couple of weeks, I've posted some award ceremonies from the (mostly) annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. I've found some, and I'm still looking for others. I put out a request from him, and a kind commenter here named Berni found this one for me. So thanks very much to Berni for that. In 2022, it was Lionel Richie's turn to win the prize.

I'm not going to go into Richie's career here. Suffice to say that he's sold over 100 million records, making him one of the best selling musical acts of all time. And if you're wondering why Richie has won this prize and the likes of Bob Dylan haven't yet, keep in mind the word "popular" in the title of the prize. They're basically awarding the most successful, not necessarily the most critically acclaimed.

The recording of this concert is different from all the other Gershwin Prize ones I've heard so far. Richie was awarded the prize after just two songs sung by others. Richie gave his acceptance speech at that point. Then, after some more songs sung by others, Richie returned to perform a couple of songs at the end of the concert. For all the others, the winner of the prize was given the prize at the end of the concert. I don't know if this is the correct order or if the song order was redone by someone for some reason. But in any case, this is what we have, and I don't have any proof it happened otherwise, so I'm keeping it like this.

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality was pretty good. However, I noticed all the vocals were mixed pretty low. So I fixed that with the use of the UVR5 audio editing program.

As an aside, there are two more Gershwin Prize concerts that I'd especially like to find, those for Smokey Robinson and Carole King. But it turns out one can only listen to them if one has a PBS Passport, AND one lives in Wisconsin! Here are the links.

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/in-performance/-performance-carole-king-library-congress-gershwin-prize-full-episode/

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/gershwin-prize/gershwin-prize-smokey-robinson-library-congress-gershwin-prize/

If anyone here has donated to PBS and lives in Wisconsin, please help! That music should be available to people everywhere, not just in one U.S. state. Thanks. 

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Dancing on the Ceiling (Gloria Estefan)
02 talk (emcee)
03 talk (Anthony Anderson)
04 Hello (Andra Day)
05 talk (emcee)
06 talk (Carla Hayden)
07 talk (Lionel Richie)
08 talk (emcee)
09 Say You, Say Me (Chris Stapleton)
10 talk (Anthony Anderson)
11 You Are (Miguel)
12 talk (emcee)
13 Easy (Boyz II Men)
14 talk (Anthony Anderson)
15 talk (Luke Bryan)
16 Lady (Luke Bryan)
17 talk (emcee)
18 Jesus Is Love (Yolanda Adams)
19 talk (Anthony Anderson)
20 talk (Lionel Richie)
21 We Are the World (Lionel Richie)
22 All Night Long (Lionel Richie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6ZazeATH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/BW8kawfLWE2PB2R/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Richie with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.