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The Concert in Hyde Park [2 CD + Blu-ray]
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The Concert in Hyde Park [2 CD + Blu-ray]
Current price: $36.99
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The Concert in Hyde Park [2 CD + Blu-ray]
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's 2017 double-CD/single-DVD/single-Blu-ray set
captures a celebratory concert
gave in London's Hyde Park on July 15, 2012. For that show, he reconvened many of the musicians who played on 1986's
, including
and
, and invited
to play an extended mini-set early in the show, while bringing
on-stage to play on "The Boxer" near the close.
runs through almost all of
but not in order ("All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints" is MIA). He punctuates the album with lively versions of his classic hits -- mainly from his solo career, although "The Sound of Silence" is here -- but the focus remains on the elasticity of
, since this band plays lively, somewhat unpredictable arrangements of these familiar numbers. More than the
material itself, these versions show how the album continues to inspire
, pushing him to try new things even on old tunes. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine