Richard & Linda Thompson - 25 April 1975: London, England

Artwork

Disc 1

  1. The Dark End Of The Street (Moman/Penn)
  2. Beat The Retreat
  3. The Sun Never Shines On The Poor
  4. A Heart Needs A Home
  5. The Great Valerio
  6. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
  7. The Poor Ditching Boy
  8. Nobody's Wedding
  9. The Wild Side Of Life (Carter/Warren)

Disc 2

  1. Withered And Died
  2. Shaky Nancy
  3. Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
  4. Calvary Cross
  5. Smiffy's Glass Eye
  6. Love Hurts (Bryant)
  7. Hokey Pokey
  8. Mole In A Hole
  1. It'll Be Me (Clement)
  1. When Will I Be Loved? (Everly) *
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w/ Sandy Denny

Recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England on April 25, 1975.

This is one of the best Richard & Linda boots I've heard - a great setlist and a superb performance, with Linda's vocals sounding surprisingly confident and assured. The band consists of Dave Pegg on bass, Date Mattacks on drums and John Kirkpatrick on accordion.

This sounds like a remarkably good audience recording (for the time), although there's a fair amount of "flutter" through most of the tracks. There's also an FM version circulating, sourced from BBC Radio 1's In Concert series, but it only includes 45min of the show.