Description
Label Review.
2003 live album recorded at Royal Albert Hall.
Our Overview.
Originally released in 1967, Love’s third album ‘Forever Changes’ is today seen as a bonafide classic of the time and still amazes listeners with it’s collection of superb arrangements, tinged with psychedelia and capped off with frontman Arthur Lee’s cryptic lyrics and soulful singing. Plus the album contains “Alone Again Or” covered by the likes of UFO, The Damned, Sarah Brightman, Boo Radleys to name a few.
Love’s career trajectory at that point had been perfect - signed by Elektra Records, a promising debut album, a second (‘Da Capo’) that hinted at greatness before plopping ‘Forever Changes’ down at the end of 1967, all this in the space of 18 months. Sadly the band split after this but Arthur Lee retained the band name and kept it alive with further records in the late 60s/early 70s but his own erratic behaviour lead his career off the rails. He eventually wound up in jail on firearm offences in the 1990s.
He was free by 2001 and he endeavoured to get back on the road with a crack band to finally do his legacy justice especially now that in the CD age, Love’s back catalogue had been remastered and reissued and magazine articles were gushing about them. In 2003, billed as ‘Arthur Lee With Love’, and accompanied by a string section, he performed ‘Forever Changes’ in its entirety with some other tracks thrown in for good measure at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The event was recorded and filmed and has been a steady seller since it was first released by Snapper Music that same year. Here, it is being reissued again at its best price yet with both the audio and visual discs in one package.
Track Listing.CD: Alone Again Or / A House Is Not A Motel / Andmoreagain / The Daily Planet / Old Man / The Red Telephone / Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale / Live And Let Live / The Good Humour Man He Sees Everything Like This / Bummer In The Summer / You Set The Scene / Orange Skies / She Comes In Colors / Listen To My Song / August / Seven & Seven Is / Your Mind And We Belong Together / Signed DC / My Little Red Book
DVD: Alone Again Or / A House Is Not A Motel / Andmoreagain / The Daily Planet / Old Man / The Red Telephone / Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale / Live And Let Live / The Good Humour Man He Sees Everything Like This / Bummer In The Summer / You Set The Scene / Arthur Lee Interview / Tour Documentary / Seven & Seven Is (Bonus Track) / Orange Skies (Bonus Track) / Listen To My Song ( Bonus Track ) / She Comes In Colors (Bonus Track) / Always See Your Face (Bonus Track)