Rory Gallagher Live in Madrid back in 1975, an amazing performance which is still remembered well.
Rory Gallagher Million Miles Away The Old Grey Whistle Test Live
I attended my second ever rock concert around 1969 But In the coming years the gigs I still recall the most and always an absolute blinder was with Rory Gallagher one of the most consummate and charismatic showmen on the circuit pulling out all the stops in Birmingham Town Hall that was so hot by the end it felt like a Florida swamplands With his beat up old Sunburst Fender Stratocaster he was a guitar player of such staggering ability that seasoned guitarists and bluesmen would watch in shock and awe. In the seventies this unassuming Irishman spent so much time on the “Old Grey Whistle Test” and European TV broadcasts that he ought to have paid council tax to the BBC. Indeed in those days before video I recorded his 1976 OGWT special on a Grundig Reel to Reel Tape Re-corder with a the microphone taped to the television speaker .
Gallagher was one of the most prolific touring artists and his great live albums of this era especially the “Irish Tour 1974” are peerless. He was also constantly in demand from television across the US and Europe and thus we have the Beat Club Sessions. These are previously unreleased live recordings made for the German TV series of the same name and recorded over three different appearances in the early seventies.
The Fat Angel Sings 