Rory Gallagher – The BBC Collection [2024, 2xBlu-ray, 1080p]

Universal Music will release Rory Gallagher The BBC Collection in October, a 20-disc set (18 CDs & 2 blu-rays) described as “the definitive collection of Rory Gallagher’s recorded performances at the BBC”.

The Irish guitarist and songwriter was one of the most recorded musicians of the 1970s by the BBC and this new box was created from tapes in the Beeb’s archives along with Rory Gallagher’s own transcription discs and off-air cassette recordings. Over three quarters of the audio recordings are previously unreleased. The BBC Collection takes in 16 years of Gallagher’s career (1971-1986) and highlights include the 1977 television and radio broadcast ‘Sight & Sound’ concert, Rory’s headlining set at the Reading Festival in 1980 and the ‘At Midnight’ concert live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, 1984. The blu-rays offer BBC TV concerts and studio performances from 1973 to 1984.

BD1 – 1973-1977

Old Grey Whistle Test 1973
1 Hands Off
2 Walk On Hot Coals

Old Grey Whistle Test Shepherd’s Bush Empire 1 March 1976
3 I Take What I Want
4 Bought & Sold
5 All Around Man
6 Out On The Western Plain
7 Souped-Up Ford
8 Bullfrog Blues

Sight & Sound In Concert Hammersmith Odeon 19 January 1977
9 Do You Read Me
10 Secret Agent
11 Calling Card
12 Bought And Sold
13 Out On The Western Plain
14 Barley And Grape Rag
15 Pistol Slapper Blues
16 Too Much Alcohol
17 Going To My Hometown
18 Souped-Up Ford

BD2 – 1978-1985
Rock Goes To College Middlesex Polytechnic 7 December 1978
1 Shin Kicker
2 Mississippi Sheiks
3 Do You Read Me
4 Brute Force And Ignorance
5 Fuel To The Fire
6 Shadow Play
7 Cruise On Out

Scene Around Six BBC Northern Ireland 5 January 1984
8 Interview

BBC Northern Ireland Rory At Midnight 5 January 1984
9 Double Vision
10 Follow Me
11 I Wonder Who
12 Big Guns
13 Out On The Western Plain
14 Shadow Play

Old Grey Whistle Test 26th February 1985
15 Interview
16 Can’t Be Satisfied

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