A Concert By The Lake [Blu-ray] [2010]

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Mike and the Mechanics would go on to have hits in Europe with “Word of Mouth” and “Over My Shoulder,” but those songs went nowhere in America. The first is with “Hold On I’m Coming”, “Soothe Me”, and the Peter Frampton song “You Don’t Know Like I Know”. Look for Eagle Rock to release blu-ray DVDs of Black Sabbath, Michael Bolton, and the television series Blood Ties in 2010. Clapton performed “Lead Me to the Water” -- the title track from Brooker’s 1982 solo album -- while a picture of the deceased rocker was shown on stage. A Concert By the Lake is a relatively unassuming title for a live concert featuring the likes of Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Procol Harum founder Gary Brooker, and other noteworthy artists.

Other golden discs were presented to Clapton for outstanding sales figures in Australia, Brazil and Canada. This concert brings together a group of rock legends under the musical direction of Procol Harum's Gary Brooker to perform many of their best loved tracks. The set list has been a tightly guarded secret, but don’t expect to see Collins sing “All I Need Is a Miracle” again. Music critic Anneke Brüning notes that the release features a shorter DVD track listing than its rival Live at Montreux 1986, but thinks the Live 1986 release is not less interesting. It was probably childish to be over-protective, but I thought it helped him not to have to face the full horror, himself, of scoring his own heroin supply.A distinctly black-tie affair, the highbrow audience still lets its hair down to enjoy the assembled all-star band.

Eric Clapton: I’d been quite seriously addicted to heroin, then thought I’d got off it by drinking, not knowing that alcohol was probably going to do me more damage. We were all a bunch of lunatics and we were falling into the rock-band ritual where you break things in hotel rooms and you throw food at each other and you release everything. After the visionary highs of the 1960s, Eric Clapton kicked off the 70s mired in a professional, personal and pharmaceutical nightmare.Most of the key performers chime in with their two cents about what a great cause it is and how much fun they've had preparing. King hit that wasn't a Drifters release to begin with – let alone having anything to do with this new version of the group. He appeared with the Band du Lac which included Gary Brooker, Andy Fairweather Low, Dave Bronze, Henry Spinetti, Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack. At the end of that period, I found I had boxes full of playing, as if there was something struggling to survive. The latest appearance was last year in aid of HASTE (Heart And Stroke Trust Endeavour) and released on DVD as One Night Only .

Eagle Rock Entertainment has recently released this 2006 performance on Blu-ray disc, to the nearly certainapproval of classic rock aficionados. After the final song “I Wish” the taper recorded the fireworks display to celebrate the end of a successful concert. ARMS is the first label to release this tape on silver disc and assign it to the Eric Clapton catalogue which is rather strange. He sang a larger segment at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in 1988 as part of a medley of Genesis songs and solo cuts.

Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. The release reached number two on the British music video charts, compiled by the Official Charts Company. In the UK alone, he has written for Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, The Sunday Times, Radio Times, Classic Rock, HiFi News and more.

By the time we reached the end of the set with Key To The Highway and Crossroads, no one had any doubts: Eric was back. It was the second single off their 1985 self-titled debut and it became a big hit all over the world. Under the Boardwalk," which was sung by the late Johnny Moore during his tenure with the group, is also performed. Pete Townshend: Eric lost two people that he based his whole life on – Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman– in fairly close succession. I was so drunk on some stages that I played lying on the stage, flat on my back, or staggering around wearing the weirdest combination of clothes because I couldn’t get it together even to dress properly.Gary Brooker serves as the musical director for the evening, and he is in great voice for the Procol Harum classic "A Whiter Shade of Pale. The legendary guitarist opened his set by honoring Gary Brooker, the founder and lead singer of Procol Harum who died in February. But it wasn’t until the Picnic on the Lake concert, held in Surrey, England, on July 1st, 1989, that he tackled the whole thing. The Rainbow shows might have brought Clapton out of his self-imposed exile, but they were less successful at helping him clean up.