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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Shout! Factory
Salesrank: 23361
Released: September 29, 2009 |
| Our Price: $8.43 |
| Used Price: $9.93 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color DVD Full Screen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
In June 1979, Pete Townshend gave a solo acoustic performance at Amnesty Internationals Secret Policeman's Ball benefit show in London, inspiring Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Sting, Bob Geldof, Phil Collins and many others to perform for Amnesty. It also helped inspire the unplugged of the 90s, and galvanized a generation of musicians to become involved in social and political causes: Sting, Peter Gabriel, Bob Geldof (who later founded Live Aid) and Bono all cite the show as the inspiration for their activism. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of that historic first show, Shout! Factory is proud to partner with Amnesty on this collection of the musical highlights from three decades of Secret Policemans Ball shows.
Program Listing:
Pinball Wizard - Pete Townshend
Farther Up The Road - Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck
Roxanne - Sting
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Imagine - Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins
On The Turning Away - David Gilmour
Amnesty - Dave Stewart
I Don't Like Mondays - Bob Geldof
Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck
Message In A Bottle - Sting
Won't Get Fooled Again - Pete Townshend & John Williams
Biko - Peter Gabriel
I Shall Be Released - The Secret Police
Secret Policeman's Ball: The Secret Policeman Rocks! Reviews:
Could of used an audio and video upgrade 
2009-11-15 - If you aren't a fan of [primarily] British comedy but love British music, this DVD is a compilation of the Secret Policeman's Balls [concerts]. You can't really use the term "Rocks" as most of the DVD is acoustic.
On the negative side, they didn't do much to improve the audio or video [still specs in the video] and maybe they had little choice but audio fades aren't great.
On the near positive side, there is also over an hour of interview footage with most of the musicians including a big chunk of recent interviews from Pete Townshend. The interviews are both old and new. What I didn't like much is the editing/splicing.
Real class of musicians' natural skills and abilities 
2009-07-30 - A recent Australian edition concludes some this stuff under title "Secret Policemen's Music Edition".
Short of visual and audio special techno effects, performing presents a real class of musicians' natural skills and abilities.
Hopefully, the US production will be sharper on merits of technical DVD presentation as images are a bit blur.
