Product: Music for Montserrat (1997)
Rating: 5.0
Almost like being there again!
What an amazing concert! I was there at Albert Hall in 97 and this DVD does justice to this exceptional Performance. Kudos to Sir George Martin for staging this incredible benefit. (Too bad they couldn't show the whole concert.) I'm very glad to have the video of Carl Perkins(just before he died). He had a lot of fun out there. I was a little disappointed in Clapton's playing but there were just so many great performances. Knopfler's Brothers in Arms (with those amazing kettle drums...sounded like the blitz over our heads!)left the audience literally weeping. Money for Nothing was fabulous. Sting was in great form. If that wasn't enough, Elton John (who had just finished the Diana tribute only weeks before)doing "Your Song". I'd never seen him live before and I now understand why he is such an incredible performer. Just him and a piano. If that still wasn't enough.. Paul McCartney playing Albert Hall (34 years to the day) that he was last there. When he came out solo and strummed the first few chords of "Yesterday", there wasn't a dry eye in the place. And the Beatles tunes too! Overall an amazing concert, great camera work, great sound and a worthy cause. Buy it.