London Calling: Live in Hyde Park
Product Description
Captured in London at the Hard Rock Calling Festival on June 28, 2009 in HD, the 163-minute film documents 26 tracks of live Springsteen that begin in daylight and progress through a gorgeous sunset into night. Viewers are able to see Springsteen spontaneously directing the E Street Band and shaping the show as it evolves. The set list spans from ‘Born To Run’ era to ‘Working On a Dream’ and includes rare covers such as The Clash’s “London Calling,” Jimmy Cliff’s “Trapped,” The Young Rascals’ “Good Lovin’,” and Eddie Floyd’s “Raise Your Hand.” Springsteen also performs fan favorite “Hard Times (Come Again No More),” written by Stephen Foster in 1854. Brian Fallon from The Gaslight Anthem joins the band as a guest vocalist on Springsteen’s own “No Surrender.” GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning producer and editor Thom Zimny and director Chris Hilson, both members of Springsteen’s video team dating back over a decade, oversaw the film. Audio was mixed by… More >> London Calling: Live in Hyde Park
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 am
I haven’t seen this Blue Ray disc yet but I’ve seen the set list and the included materials and IT WILL BE AMAZING! Enjoy. Standard 2 DVD disc set or one Blue Ray disc. They’re both available in June. Pounce on it!! Rating: 5 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am
People are writing 5-star reviews for something they’ve never seen or heard, hasn’t been released yet, and basing their comments on whether they liked the tour or not, or the set-list. Unfair. Take them down. (Or, hmmmm, do we work for Jon Landau, perhaps?. . .) Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:50 am
Since I heard that Jon Landau announced the forthcoming release of a live DVD of the working on a dream tour I was wondering which concert might be chosen. Bruce decided to release a concert from the European leg of the tour (once more after live at Hammersmith, live in Barcelona and live in Dublin). In fact, it was a great show in London at a fantastic festival location, a huge audience and with a solid, well diversified but (let’s be honest) pretty average setlist (as in most venues during the European leg of the tour). As you can read out I am slightly disappointed about that choice. Because the last shows of the U.S. leg in late 2009 were that exceptionally outstanding one could hardly imagine that any other show would be chosen for release. Bear in mind, entire classic albums (including Born to run, Darkness on the edge of town, Born in the U.S.A., even The River!) have been played from start to finish at these shows, rare songs never heard live for more than 30 years were played (a dream came true for many long time fans). As a (European) die hard fan I, therefore, was hoping that either a Meadowlands gig (it would have been the first ‘live in New Jersey’ Concert DVD!) or a Philly Spectrum show would have seen the light of day.
Anyhow, it is always great to have something new to wait for and after all there is even more to come (announced Darkness box set, why not enriched with a complete darkness excerpt of a late 2009 show?).
So five stars as always for Bruce and a an incredibly outstanding E Street Band playing better than ever throughout the whole tour, but from the point of view of a die hard fan I’d give ‘em a three.
Rating: 5 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:51 am
now we look forward to the (nearly) whole show…with a Bruce live concert, 5 stars is a lock!!! Rating: 5 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:58 am
Have been to many concerts in the UK and in the US. This concert is still the best concert I have ever been to. CAN’T WAIT! Rating: 5 / 5