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Monday, January 07, 2019

Nice start to the week with an Eurythmics set from the Berlin wall concerts of 1987 and whilst I have said elsewhere I think Annie Lennox possessed of one of the greatest voices in contemporary music I also really rate Dave Stewart and think he is vastly underrated as a guitarist and writer
As Big O reports:


Live at Platz der Republik, Berlin, Germany; June 7, 1987. Very good FM broadcast.
It’s difficult to imagine in 2007 that Phil Collins was ever cool (*he wasn't! ED) - much less that he might have played a small role in the fall of the Berlin Wall (he didn't - ED). But then again, in 1987, few would have dared predict that the end of communist East Germany was nigh. On June 8 of that year, the band Genesis - Collins’ troop of art-rockers-turned-pop-stars - headlined the final night of the “Concert for Berlin,” a three-day open-air festival staged in front of the Reichstag. The stage was only a stone’s throw from, and well within earshot of, the other side of the Berlin Wall.
As had been the case the previous two nights, which had featured David Bowie and Eurythmics, some 2,000 East Berliners headed to the border at the Brandenburg Gate to get a listen. Few got there. “The police had cordoned off the street at the Russian Embassy (about a quarter-mile from the Wall),” eyewitness Tina Krone said. “They kept arresting people, dragging them along the surface of the street. It was like a horror movie. We were enraged.” As many as 200 people were taken into custody in what amounted to a small pitched battle between the cops and the kids. And the frustrated East Berliners, as gleefully noted by West German media, began chanting “The wall must fall!” and “Gorby get us out!”
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Check this FM concert



Now the mistake the cover makes is to show the wonderful 'Perfect' fellow Scottish lassie and another peerless voiced angel, Eddie Reader and on this live set it is the equally wonderful Joniece Jamison. One of the most amazing things about Annie is her ability to have some of the greatest female singers backing her. Listen to Jamison on this she is extraordinary. 




Eddie with Annie

Joniece

read this from the eurythmics site . . . . . .
Interview with vocalist Joniece Jamison vocalist

the line up here is

Lineup:
Annie Lennox - vocals
Dave Stewart - guitars and vocals
Clem Burke - drums
Chucho Merchan - bass
Jimmy Zavala - saxophone, flute and harmonica
Pat Seymour - keyboards
Joniece Jamison - vocals


oh and being a tired old reconstituted sexist pig there has also never been a decade when Annie hasn't also been smoking hot  sorry, I mean breathtakingly beautiful too!




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