London Rock & Roll Show

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Summary: No Alice Cooper As Advertised
Review: Although this video shows great concert footage of various artists such as Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, it fails to show any footage of the advertised Alice Cooper. Just like as advertised on "Roger Daltrey: A Celebration - With Pete Townshend and Music of the Who (1994)," no Alice Cooper appears in this video either. Please see reviews for Roger Daltrey: A Celebration - With Pete Townshend and Music of the Who (1994) for further infomation:

This may not interest too many people, but since the DVD is listed under "Alice Cooper", and since he performed the song "I'm A Boy" at THIS concert, I went and bought it. BUT THEY CUT THE TRACK OUT! There's no, repeat NO, Alice Cooper track on this DVD! So buy it for any other reason than I did! Or look for a VHS copy of the whole concert or the 2-CD-set.
--Dr. Oliver Spang

DO NOT BUY if you are looking to see Alice Cooper because HE AINT IN IT!!!


Rating:
Summary: The everlasting show
Review: As the same line-up is about to perform again in London in July 2000 it was fascinating to see these rock musicians playing 30 years ago. The camera work is very Seventies - handheld, close-up and all rather amateur - but the footage of London Teds jiving and having a good day out more than made up for that. Bo Diddley did a great guitar break, Screaming Lord Sutch was a bit of fun but the main stars were all on top form. Ignoring Jerry Lee's very strange pink sweater he did his customary set and also ignoring Little Richard's camping it up he showed what energy he had in that decade. But as usual Chuck Berry took the honours when closing the show. Good buy.

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Summary: The First Rock Show At Wembley Stadium
Review: This show is aparently legendary, but I never heard of it, but picking it up from the cheapie bin was no regret after watching it. It started off pretty slow, some guy came out doing some kind of pre Alice Cooper style horror theatrics, but even the crowds hippies and punks didnt seem to enjoy whoever he was very much. They only seemed to react when he brought out the naked dancers.

Bo Diddly - He puts on a nice blues number. Forgive me for forgetting the title of the song, i'm not a fan of his. But he preforms well.

Jerry Lee Lewis - His performance is very ... ummm, if I use my own words i'll end up censoured, he preforms a couple of numbers like he has died and someone has his hand up his behind using him as a vantriliquist dummie. Great balls of fire sounded a bit off key. I skipped through most of his perfromance.

Bill Haley - He only performs the one song, twice, but I gotta say he preforms "Rock Around The Clock" exactly the way he recorded it! Well, singning it anyway.

Little Richard - He brings the house down, pretty much everything sounded excellent, but I think he was gasping for air or just off key during "Lucille".

Chuck Berry - The final act of the night, Chuck Berry is the show stopper. He preforms a lot of his great numbers and does them so well. I'm a hardcore AC/DC fan and when people say that Angus Young is just Chuck Berry with more volume, they arnt wrong! Chuck turns on the distortion halfway through his perfromance and has that much Angus like sound. Chuck rips through many numbers, some combined, some full, some extended. Chuck was "The Man" of the hour perfroming for over 20 minutes, going over his time he was supposed to be on for, they even pulled the plug on him because he wouldnt get off, but they turn it back on so he can finish up.

Theres no extras, no subtitles, no nothing, it's in 2.0 sound, the picture quality is decent, few specks now and then, its not digitaly restored or anything, but much like it has come from a VHS. Mick Jagger is in the interveiws parts in between songs, but there is no Rolling Stones performance's. A lot of fun, sex drugs and rock and roll from the rocker of the 50's who created rock and roll.

Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and Little Richard are the only reasons I will watch the DVD again. The other performances are either boring or terrible, tho if your a fan of Jerry Lee Lewis dont go by reveiw on judgment, i've never liked him much anyway, and I pretty much ignored his performance after GBOF.

The only reason i'm giving it 2 stars is because only 3 of the acts I enjoyed, the scene selections only let you select the artists performance in total, not as each song is played, and Chuck Berry didnt do "Johnny B. Goode" :((