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''BBC Radio One Live in Concert'' was a live
album
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by
Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe) are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid-1980s. They a ...
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in 1982 and released in 1995. It was the group's first official live album and remained their only official live album until the release of ''
The Projected Passion Revue'' in 2007 (from a 1981 recording). The album is unique as it is Dexys' only live recording where the members of ''
The Projected Passion Revue'' horn section (Big Jim Paterson, Paul Speare, and Brian Maurice) are present alongside the ''
Too-Rye-Ay'' strings (
Helen O'Hara
Helen O'Hara (born Helen Bevington; 5 November 1956) is a British musician. She was a member and violinist of Dexys Midnight Runners from 1982 to 1987, including performing on songs such as "Come on Eileen", and in 2021 rejoined the band.
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and Steve Brennan). Immediately after this concert, the horn section left the group and formed
The TKO Horns
The TKO Horns were a horn section formed in 1982 when Big Jim Paterson (trombone), Paul Speare (tenor saxophone) and Brian Maurice (alto saxophone) left Dexys Midnight Runners. After a brief spell touring with Paul Young's Q Tips they began perfor ...
.
This concert is included in full (including one track, "I'll Show You", omitted from this release) on the second disc of the 2007 ''
Too-Rye-Ay Deluxe Edition'' release.
Track listing
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Kenneth Gamble
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Leon Huff
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# "Burn It Down" (Rowland) – 3:58
# "Let's Make This Precious" (Paterson, Rowland) – 4:18
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Come on Eileen
"Come On Eileen" is a song by the English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom in June 1982 as a single from their second studio album '' Too-Rye-Ay''. It reac ...
" (Adams, Billingham, Paterson, Rowland) – 6:30
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) – 6:25
# "Soon" (Paterson, Rowland) – 1:34
# "Plan B" (Paterson, Rowland) – 4:04
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" (Paterson, Rowland) – 3:29
# "Old" (Paterson, Rowland) – 4:36
# "
The Celtic Soul Brothers" (Billingham, Paterson, Rowland) – 2:47
# "There, There, My Dear" (Archer, Rowland) – 5:22
# "Show Me" (Paterson, Rowland) – 3:38
Personnel
*
Kevin Rowland – guitar, vocals
*
Seb Shelton
Seb Shelton is a British musician, who was the drummer for bands such as the Young Bucks (1978–1979), Secret Affair (1979–1980), and Dexys Midnight Runners (1980–1983).Larkin, Colin (1997) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music'', Virg ...
– drums
* Giorgio Kilkenny – bass
* Kevin "Billy" Adams – banjo, guitar
*
Mickey Billingham
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– organ, piano, accordion
* "Big" Jim Paterson – trombone
*
Paul Speare – saxophone, flute, tin whistle
* Brian Maurice – saxophone
*
Helen O'Hara
Helen O'Hara (born Helen Bevington; 5 November 1956) is a British musician. She was a member and violinist of Dexys Midnight Runners from 1982 to 1987, including performing on songs such as "Come on Eileen", and in 2021 rejoined the band.
Early ...
– violin
* Steve Brennan – violin
References
Dexys Midnight Runners albums
BBC Radio recordings
1995 live albums
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