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A Night At The Opera
(bootleg CD)

Label unknown - VM001/02
(Released circa August 2000)

Disc One:

  1. Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 1 (5:37)
  2. Dead Or Alive (4:32)
  3. Goin' Home (3:18)
  4. Tore Down A La Rimbaud (3:27)
  5. Fire In The Belly (6:11)
  6. Back On Top (4:14)
  7. Moondance (5:49)
  8. Out Of Time (lead vocal by Chris Farlowe) (4:02)
  9. Precious Time (3:45)
  10. In The Afternoon / Don't You Get Me High / Sex Machine (7:39)
  11. Goin' Down Geneva / Brand New Cadillac (4:39)
    Total time: (53:23)

Disc Two:
  1. All In The Game / You Know What They're Writing About (sic) (9:39)
  2. Baby Please Don't Go (2:39)
  3. Here Comes The Night (2:54)
  4. Brown Eyed Girl (3:22)
  5. Georgia (5:53)
  6. Philosopher's Stone (8:04)
  7. Stand By Me (with Chris Farlowe) (4:59)
  8. It's All Over Now Baby Blue (with Chris Farlowe) (4:34)
  9. The Healing Game (6:33)
  10. Gloria (with Chris Farlowe) (5:39)

    Bonus Tracks:
  11. Shenandoah (4:17)
    (with The Chieftains live at the "Late Late Show"
    RTE Studios, Dublin, March 27, 1998)
  12. Sticks and Stones (2:21)
    (with the Richie Buckley Jazz Band
    live at the Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin, May 29, 1997)
  13. Angeliou (8:55)
    (Montreux Jazz Festival, July 10, 1980)
    Total time: (69:49)

All songs on Disc One, plus Disc Two tracks 1-10 were recorded at the Opera House, Blackpool, England, on April 20, 2000.

Musicians:
Van Morrison: vocals, harmonica
Johnny Scott: guitar
David Hayes: bass
Robin Aspland: piano
Geraint Watkins: Hammond organ
Richie Buckley: saxophone
Matt Holland: trumpet
Chris Barber: drums
GUEST: Chris Farlowe

Notes:
It says soundboard on the 4-color art-work, but this may be the label name. The discs are silver manufactured CD's, not CDr's - a very professional job. On spine it says "A Night at the Opera 20000" (sic it says 20000, not 2000)

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