Hammersmith Odeon London '75

Infobox Album | Name = Hammersmith Odeon London '75
Type = Live album
Artist = Bruce Springsteen


Released = February 28 2006
Recorded = November 18, 1975
Genre = Rock
Length = 124:52
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, Thom Zimny
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tq5g8qbcbtz4 link]
Last album = "Devils & Dust"
(2005)
This album = "Hammersmith Odeon London '75"
(2006)
Next album = ""
(2006)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Type = live
Last album = "The Essential Bruce Springsteen"
(2003)
This album = "Hammersmith Odeon London '75"
(2006)
Next album = "Magic"
(2007)

"Hammersmith Odeon London '75" is both a concert video and the fourth live album by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, released in 2006 (see 2006 in music). It is a full-length recording of their performance on 18 November 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, during their Born to Run tours. It was first released as a DVD on November 14, 2005 as part of the "Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition" package, and then several months later on February 28 2006 released as an audio CD.

The concert was part of Columbia Records' push to promote Springsteen in the United Kingdom and Europe following the success of the "Born to Run" album in the United States. The large amount of publicity accompanying these appearances, especially the one in London, famously caused Springsteen to react badly and furiously run about pulling down promotional posters proclaiming "Finally London is ready for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band."

This performance marked the European concert debut of Springsteen and the E Street Band, kicking off a four-date mini tour which also featured shows in Stockholm, Sweden and Amsterdam, Holland, as well as a second concert at the Hammersmith Odeon on November 24 that was added due to the huge ticket demand for the first London gig. The two-and-a-half-hour concert film was spliced together from 32 reels of silent 16-mm footage, digitally restored frame by frame in a painstaking process that took editor Thom Zimny a full year to complete.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on March 18, 2006 at number 93 with sales of approximately 12,000 copies sold. It spent 2 weeks on the chart.

Track listing

Disc One

# "Thunder Road"
# "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
# "Spirit in the Night"
#*Contains a portion of "The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)" by Fred Ahlert and Edgar Leslie
# "Lost in the Flood"
# "Mona/She's the One"
# "Born to Run"
# "The E Street Shuffle/Havin' A Party"
#*Contains a portion of "Having A Party" by Sam Cooke
# "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"
# "Backstreets"

Disc Two

# "Kitty's Back"
#*Contains a portion of "Moondance" by Van Morrison
# "Jungleland"
# "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
#*Contains a portion of "Come A Little Bit Closer" by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Wes Ferrell and "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes
# "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"
# "Detroit Medley"
#*Consists of: "Devil With A Blue Dress On" by William Stevenson and Frederick Lang & "Jenny Take a Ride" by Bob Crewe, Enotris Johnson and Richard Penniman, as recorded by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" by Robert Blackwell, John Marascalco, as recorded by Little Richard and "C.C. Rider"
# "For You"
# "Quarter to Three/Closing Credits"
#*Originally Recorded by Gary U.S. Bonds

All songs by Bruce Springsteen except as noted.

Personnel

The E Street Band

*Bruce Springsteen – guitar, vocals
*Roy Bittan – piano, vocals
*Clarence Clemons – saxophone, percussion
*Danny Federici – keyboards
*Garry Tallent – bass guitar
*Steven Van Zandt – guitar, vocals
*Max Weinberg – drums

External links

* [http://www.backstreets.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BR&Product_Code=CDHAMMERS&Category_Code=030 Backstreets sales page]