Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (album)

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (album)
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
Live album by Various Artists
Released March 30, 1981 (1981-03-30)
Recorded 26-29 December 1979, Hammersmith Odeon
Genre Rock
Length 77:54
Label Atlantic
Producer Chris Thomas
Paul McCartney chronology
McCartney II
(1980)
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
(1981)
Tug of War
(1982)

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea is a double album from Wings, The Who, Queen, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, The Clash, The Specials, and many more artists of the highlights from the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea held at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England to raise money for the victims of war-torn in Cambodia.

Contents

History

The album starts with four songs from The Who (culled from a 3-hour set list) and finishes with three songs from Wings and three from the all-star lineup called Rockestra. The best of the concerts was also released as a film.

Rockestra was a Paul McCartney-led supergroup of at least thirty English rockers. The credited list appears at the bottom of the back cover of the LP. The name was first given to an assemblage of famous rock stars that were brought together by McCartney for the final Wings album, 1979's Back to the Egg. The supergroup—which consisted of Wings, John Paul Jones and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, Ronnie Lane of The Faces, Kenney Jones and Pete Townshend of The Who, and Hank Marvin of The Shadows—recorded two McCartney compositions, the instrumental "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad to See You Here".

Then, McCartney and Kurt Waldheim re-assembled Rockestra for a series of benefit concerts for the people of Cambodia (also known as Kampuchea), suffering from the reign of Pol Pot. This time, Rockestra consisted of, among others, Wings, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Robert Plant, Rockpile, James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Townshend. Hank Marvin was not available and David Gilmour for tax reasons had to decline, as he was with the rest of Pink Floyd in Los Angeles, California, where they had just finished recording The Wall and were in the midst of rehearsing for an upcoming concert tour to begin in February 1980.

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Album track listing

  1. "Baba O'Riley" (Townshend) - 5:12
  2. "Sister Disco" (Townshend) - 5:16
  3. "Behind Blue Eyes" (Townshend) - 3:46
  4. "See Me, Feel Me" (Townshend) - 5:49
  5. "The Wait" (Hynde / Farndon) - 3:28
  6. "Precious" (Hynde) - 3:23
  7. "Tattooed Love Boys" (Hynde) - 3:18
  8. "The Imposter" (Costello) - 2:10
  9. "Crawling from the Wreckage" (Parker) - 3:02
  10. "Little Sister" (Pomus / Sherman) - 3:33
  11. "Now I'm Here" (May) - 6:49
  12. "Armagideon Time" (Bennett) - 4:15
  13. "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (Dury / Jankel) - 4:30
    • Performed by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
  14. "Monkey Man" (Hibbert) - 2:26
  15. "Got to Get You into My Life" (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:57
  16. "Every Night" (McCartney) - 4:17
  17. "Coming Up" (McCartney) - 4:08
  18. "Lucille" (Collins / Penniman) - 3:03
    • Performed by the Rockestra
  19. "Let It Be" (Lennon / McCartney) - 4:12
    • Performed by the Rockestra
  20. "Rockestra Theme" (McCartney) - 2:30 (*)
    • Performed by the Rockestra

(*) Live version of the track which originally appeared on Wings' album Back to the Egg recorded in October 1978 at the Abbey Road's studio #2.

Rockestra's personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1981 US Billboard 200 36

Album track

Year Title Chart Position
1981 Little Sister US Billboard Top Tracks 8

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