Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (album)

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 line-up called Rockestra. The best of the concerts was released as a film, Concert for Kampuchea.

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, Bonham, Robert Plant, Rockpile, James Honeyman-Scott and Townshend. Hank Marvin was not available and Gilmour for tax reasons had to decline, as he was with the rest of Pink Floyd in Los Angeles, California, where they were in the midst of rehearsing for an upcoming concert tour.

Album track listing

1. "Baba O'Riley" (Pete 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. Tracks 1–4 performed by The Who
6. "The Wait" (Chrissie Hynde, Pete Farndon) – 3:28
7. "Precious" (Hynde) – 3:23
8. "Tattooed Love Boys" (Hynde) – 3:18
9. Tracks 5–7 performed by The Pretenders
10. "The Imposter" (Elvis Costello) – 2:10
11. Performed by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
12. "Crawling from the Wreckage" (Graham Parker) – 3:02
13. Performed by Rockpile
14. "Little Sister" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:33
15. Performed by Rockpile with Robert Plant
16. "Now I'm Here" (Brian May) – 6:49
17. Performed by Queen
18. "Armagideon Time" (Bennett) – 4:15
19. Performed by The Clash
20. "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (Ian Dury, Chaz Jankel) – 4:30
21. Performed by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
22. "Monkey Man" (Toots Hibbert) – 2:26
23. Performed by The Specials
24. "Got to Get You into My Life" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:57
25. "Every Night" (McCartney) – 4:17
26. "Coming Up" (McCartney) – 4:08
27. Tracks 15–17 performed by Wings
28. "Lucille" (Albert Collins, Richard Penniman) – 3:03
29. "Let It Be" (Lennon, McCartney) – 4:12
30. "Rockestra Theme" (McCartney) – 2:30
31. Tracks 18–20 performed by Rockestra

Rockestra's personnel

Charts

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