Paul McCartney Live at Knebworth 1990 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

Knebworth Festival, Knebworth House, Knebworth, Britain, 6-30-1990, Part 7: Paul McCartney

So we haven’t featured any Macca for a while and this is really nice and a favourite track listing for sure. 

Paul says: The seventh performance at the 1990 Knebworth Festival was by Paul McCartney.

McCartney didn't do any tours for all of the 1980s until the last few months. Then he went on a big world tour that lasted until the end of July 1990. So this was much like another stop on that tour, though playing to an even bigger crowd, of 120,000 people. 

The set list was composed of songs typical from his tour that year, though cut down to fit within the allotted time slot. That included two songs written by fellow ex-Beatle John Lennon, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Give Peace a Chance." Technically, he was promoting his 1989 album "Flowers in the Dirt," but he only played one song from it, "We Got Married." This concert was also the first time he played the Beatles song "Birthday" in concert.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 talk by Cathy McGowan & Timothy Dalton 
02 Coming Up 
03 Back in the U.S.S.R. 
04 I Saw Her Standing There 
05 talk 
06 We Got Married 
07 talk 
08 Birthday 
09 talk
10 Let It Be
11 talk 
12 Live and Let Die
13 talk
14 Someone Else I'd Like to Be
15 talk 
16 Hey Jude 
17 talk
18 Strawberry Fields Forever 
19 Give Peace a Chance
20 talk 
21 Yesterday 
22 talk 
23 Can't Buy Me Love 

Albums That Should Exist | Richard Thompson (feat Zara Phillips) Home Concerts the last one

Richard Thompson - The Fairport Convention Era - Home Concert, London, Britain, 9-27-2020

Paul says : In 2020, the worst year of the Covid pandemic, Richard Thompson performed a few home concerts that were broadcast over the Internet. I could be wrong, but I believe I've already posted all but one of them at this blog. Here, finally, is the last one. 

Richard Thompson was a member of Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1971, the most celebrated years of the band's long musical history. For this solo acoustic home concert, he decided to perform just songs from his Fairport Convention era. I'm not aware of any other concert where he had this exclusive focus, this this is a special treat for both Richard Thompson solo and Fairport Convention fans.

The reason I've never posted this before is because when the concert happened, it was one of those "pay to view" deals. I don't want to deny Thompson of a revenue stream, especially considering it's become increasingly hard for musicians to make a living. But I figure enough time has passed, and I checked the download page for this, and it's defunct. There's no way to pay for it. (By the way, if anyone has any more of these types of "pay to view" shows from artists that are also expired, please let me know so I can help share them.) 

Thompson performed the concert with just his acoustic guitar. Because it was in his home, there was no audience. However, his girlfriend Zara Phillips, who is a talented musician in her own right, joined him near the end of the concert to sing song harmony vocals. He largely played the songs in chronological order of the years the songs were recorded. However, he saved up some harmony one for the end with Phillips.

This concert is especially interesting because Thompson only sang on a minority of songs when he was in Fairport Convention, since the band had other sings, especially Sandy Denny. But in this concert, he sang some songs in public for the very first time that were sang by Denny and others, in order to show off a full picture of the band in that era. He also played a few songs from his first solo album, "Henry the Human Fly" from 1972, apparently since he linked that with the Fairport years in his mind.

There's a lot of interesting banter between songs. In recent years especially, Thompson has an annoying habit of coughing quite a lot when he's on stage. (I'm guessing this is related to a stuttering problem he's had his whole life.) So I edited out most of the coughs.

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Jack O'Diamonds
03 talk 
04 One Sure Thing
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 She Moves through the Fair 
07 talk 
08 Who Knows Where the Time Goes 
09 talk 
10 Reynardine
11 talk 
12 Matty Groves
13 talk 
14 The Deserter
15 talk 
16 Crazy Man Michael
17 talk
18 Sir Patrick Spens
19 talk
20 Sloth 
21 talk
22 Now Be Thankful 
23 talk 
24 Roll Over Vaughan Williams
25 talk
26 The Poor Ditching Boy 
27 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
28 I Still Miss Someone (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
29 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
30 Gone, Gone, Gone (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
31 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
32 Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
33 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
34 Genesis Hall (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
35 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
36 Meet on the Ledge (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
37 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)

I paid for mine but as Paul explains it is now unavailable so we figure it’s fair game 

Leonard Cohen - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Birmingham Odeon, Birmingham, Britain, 12-8-1979 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

Leonard Cohen Live at The BBC Vol III - Birmingham 1979 - Albums That Should Exist

 

Here Leonard at Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1979.

Nice set again from Paul over at Albums That Should Exist this time from Birmingham (UK that is!) and as he says is BBC quality so although shortish as concerts go (under an hour here) it is really well recorded (of course) 

Paul Says : 

"I just posted a Beck concert that was edited way down by the BBC, and this is a similar situation for Leonard Cohen. I don't know the full set list, but I'm guessing a lot of it was cut out, including some of the banter between songs. Still, these BBC concerts are great due to the sound quality, and that's the case here.

An official album of Cohen's 1979-1980 tour has been released, called "Field Commander Cohen." It's a few minutes longer than this one. Luckily though, the set lists are drastically different. There are only two songs shared between that and this, "The Smokey Life" and "The Gypsy's Wife."

But what really makes this concert special is the song "Billy Sunday," also known as "Blues for the Jews." (I don't think there's a firm title, since the song has never been officially released.) According to setlist.fm, Cohen only ever performed this original song six times, all on this tour, and this was the very first public performance. It's quite a song, because it's fifteen minutes long."