The Best of Rory Gallagher at the BBC 2CD

The BBC Collection is an all-encompassing collection of the many recorded performances of Rory Gallagher at the BBC. Featuring eighteen CDs worth of radio concerts and sessions from 1971 to 1986, roughly 75% of this material has not been officially released before. Also included is two Blu-Ray discs of BBC TV concerts and studio performances from 1973 to 1984, all of which has not been officially released previously.

Amassed from the BBC archives and Rory Gallagher’s own transcription discs and off-air cassette recordings, the boxset spans 16 years of his career (1971-1986), taking in highlights such as the 1977 dual television and radio broadcast Sight & Sound concert, Rory’s headlining set at the Reading Festival in 1980 to the emotional ‘At Midnight’ concert live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, 1984.

A ‘best of’ from this collection will be available on 2CD and 3LP, titled The Best of Rory Gallagher at the BBC.

These releases celebrate the importance of the artist Rory Gallagher, who was possibly the most recorded musician of the 1970s by the BBC.

“("Tore Down") That was the first song I ever heard played…It’s a BBC recording of Rory Gallagher playing at the Paris Theatre in London in July 1972. And I was in the audience, aged 15, and those opening bars were enough to make me realize that this was something I wanted to do again and again… "Tore Down" was my introduction to live, loud, amplified blues and when Gallagher had finished, my 15-year-old self could not contain his excitement. He ran down to the front to shake Rory’s hand…When the BBC did eventually broadcast the concert, I taped it by leaning the microphone from my clunky cassette recorder against the speaker of our old transistor radio and I listened to that tape over and over again” Nick Hornby, Author.

Tracklist

CD1
1. Cradle Rock - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1973
2. Back on My Stompin' Ground - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1974
3. I Wonder Who - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1974
4. Continental Op - BBC Radio 2 Paul Jones Blues Show / 1986
5. Tattoo'd Lady - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1973
6. Used to Be - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1971
7. Bankers Blues - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1973
8. Can't Be Satisfied (with Juan Martin) - BBC Radio 1 / 1984
9. I Could've Had Religion - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1972
10. Walk on Hot Coals - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1973
11. Messin' with The Kid - Live on BBC "Sounds of The Seventies" / 1972

CD2
1. Shin kicker - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
2. Last of The Independents - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
3. Keychain - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
4. Follow Me - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
5. Bought and Sold - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
6. Wayward Child - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
7. Mississippi Sheiks - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
8. Out on the Western Plain - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
9. As the Crow Flies - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
10. Do You read Me? - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
11. Philby - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
12. Hellcat - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979
13. Cruise on Out - BBC In Concert / Live at The Venue, UK / 20 September 1979*
(*previously released)