Live In The Air Age: Hammersmith Odeon ConN(REX22)

Description

Digitally remastered and expanded three CD version. This legendary live album was released in July 1977 and would prove to be the band's most successful album, peaking at #10 in the UK charts. The album was issued at a time of growing commercial success for the band and followed on the heels of two highly acclaimed studio albums in thirteen months, Sunburst Finish and Modern Music, both of which reached the Top 20 of the UK album charts. Live! In the Air Age would be the band's only live record and was recorded on a series of dates in the UK in February and March 1977 on the Rolling Stones mobile unit with John Leckie, who had engineered co-produced the band's previous two albums, supervising the location recordings. This set features the original album, newly remastered from the original master tapes, and restores the correct running order of the original LP release and has three bonus tracks drawn from a BBC Radio One John Peel Show session from January 1977. Importantly, this 3 CD edition includes the entire concert recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in London on 26th March 1977, one of the stand-out concerts from that memorable tour, which has been newly mixed by Stephen W. Tayler and is presented here for the very first time. The recording reveals the improvisational side of Be Bop Deluxe, particularly on pieces such as ?Shine? and ?Blazing Apostles? which made each Be Bop Deluxe concert unique. This release includes an illustrated booklet with many photographs and an essay of recollections by Bill Nelson. This expanded and remastered edition boxed of Live! In The Air Age is a fitting tribute to a fine live band and the creative vision of Bill Nelson.

Disk 1

1. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
2. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape (BBC John Peel Session -January 1977)
3. Aerosol Grey Machine
4. Afterwards
5. Aquarian
6. Black Smoke Yen
7. Blazing Apostles
8. Fair Exchange
9. Ferret And Featherbird
10. Giant Squid
11. Into A Game
12. Introduction ? Blimps
13. Life in the Air Age
14. Maid In Heaven
15. Mill Street Junction
16. Mill Street Junction(BBC John Peel Session ?January 1977)
17. Necromancer
18. Octopus
19. Orthentian Street (Parts 1 & 2)
20. Piece Of Mine
21. Running Back
22. Shine
23. Ships In The Night
24. Sister Seagull
25. Still Shining(BBC John Peel Session ?January 1977)
26. Swansong
27. Ghosts
28. The Magdalene Fields
29. Each Day a Colour
30. Cast Away
31. The Angel and the Dreamer
32. Beneath a Perfect Sky
33. Sycophant
34. And When the Sky Was Opened
35. Pilgrim
36. As the Lights Go Out
37. The Kindest Eyes

Disk 2

1. Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
2. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
3. Afterwards (Bbc Session ? November 1968)
4. Bill Nelson?s Introduction
5. Fair Exchange (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
6. Firebrand (1967 Demo)(Previously Unreleased)
7. Firebrand (Single Version)
8. Introduction ? Blimps (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
9. Life In The Air Age (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
10. Maid In Heaven (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
11. Mill Street Junction (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
12. Modern Music Suite
13. Necromancer(Bbc Session ? November 1968)
14. Octopus(Bbc Session ? November 1968) (Previously Unreleased)
15. People You Were Going To (Single Version)
16. People You Were Going To(Bbc Session ? November 1968)
17. Piece Of Mine (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
18. Shine
19. Shine (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
20. Ships In The Night (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
21. Sister Seagull (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
22. Sunshine (1967 Demo) (Previously Unreleased)
23. Swansong (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
24. Twilight Capers

Disk 3

1. Aerosol Grey Machine
2. Afterwards
3. Aquarian
4. Bill Nelson?s Introduction (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
5. Black Smoke Yen
6. Blazing Apostles
7. Blazing Apostles (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
8. Forbidden Lovers
9. Forbidden Lovers (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
10. Into A Game
11. Modern Music Suite (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
12. Necromancer
13. Octopus
14. Orthenthian Street
15. Running Back
16. Terminal Street
17. Terminal Street (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)
18. Twilight Capers (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 26.3.77)

Disk 4

1. Firebrand
2. People You Were Going To

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