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Next month will see the release of what promises to be an outstanding three-DVD set containing the best footage from last year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary shows held at Madison Square Garden. The shows took place over two nights last October and featured a top line up, including Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, John Forgerty, Billy Joel, Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, Sting, Mick Jagger, Simon and Garfunkel, Metallica, Ray Davies, Dion DiMucci and more.

This set will contain the four-hour edit that aired on HBO last November, as well as many bonus performances and a collector’s issue of Rolling Stone magazine featuring behind-the-scenes stories. The total running time for the set is 330 minutes.

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I’ve been looking forward to this release since I first saw the shaky audience-shot footage a day or so after the shows. I’d be tempted to buy it for the Springsteen footage alone, as it’s guaranteed to raise a smile. Here’s the duet between Bruce Springsteen and John Fogerty on “Fortunate Son.”

Another highlight was Simon & Garfunkel’s fine set, including the classic “The Boxer.”

The full track list is as follows:

Introduction:
My Prayer
Tom Hanks

Jerry Lee Lewis
Great Balls of Fire

Crosby, Stills & Nash
Woodstock
Almost Cut My Hair
Love Has No Pride with Bonnie Raitt
The Pretender with Jackson Browne
Love the One You’re With with James Taylor

Stevie Wonder
For Once in My Life
The Tracks of My Tears with Smokey Robinson
The Way You Make Me Feel with John Legend
The Thrill Is Gone with B.B. King
Higher Ground/Roxanne with Sting
Superstition with Jeff Beck

Paul Simon
Intro montage
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Bonus performance not seen on HBO)
You Can Call Me Al
Here Comes the Sun with David Crosby and Graham Nash
The Wanderer with Dion DiMucci
Little Anthony and the Imperials:
Two People in the World

Simon & Garfunkel
The Sounds of Silence
The Boxer
Bridge over Troubled Water

Aretha Franklin
Intro montage
Baby I Love You
Don’t Play That Song
Chain of Fools with Annie Lennox

Metallica
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sweet Jane with Lou Reed
Iron Man/Paranoid with Ozzy Osbourne
All Day and All of the Night with Ray Davies
Enter Sandman

U2
Vertigo
Magnificent
Because the Night with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Roy Bittan
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For with Bruce Springsteen
Gimme Shelter with Mick Jagger, Fergie and will.i.am
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of with Mick Jagger
Beautiful Day

Jeff Beck
Intro montage
People Get Ready with Sting
Let Me Love You Baby with Buddy Guy
Foxey Lady with Billy Gibbons
A Day in the Life

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Hold On! I’m Comin’/Soul Man with Sam Moore
The Ghost of Tom Joad with Tom Morello
Fortunate Son with John Fogerty
Oh, Pretty Woman with John Fogerty
Jungleland
A Fine Fine Boy with Darlene Love
New York State of Mind with Billy Joel
Born to Run with Billy Joel
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher with Darlene Love, John Fogerty, Sam Moore, Billy Joel and Tom Morello

Bonus footage

Crosby, Stills & Nash
Mexico with James Taylor
Teach Your Children with Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and James Taylor

Stevie Wonder
Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
I Was Made to Love Her
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) with John Legend

Simon & Garfunkel
Mrs. Robinson/Not Fade Away

Metallica
Turn the Page
Iron Man/Paranoid with Ozzy Osbourne (Full-length version not seen on HBO)

U2
Mysterious Ways
Where Is the Love/One with the Black Eyed Peas

Jeff Beck
Freeway Jam
Big Block

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
London Calling with Tom Morello
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher with Darlene Love,John Fogerty, Sam Moore, Billy Joel and Tom Morello (Full-length version not seen on HBO).

There’s such a diversity of artists on this set and such an array of talent that there is a performance to match most moods. It is set to be one of the best music DVD releases of the year.

The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concerts three-DVD set will be released on September 28. It is available for pre-order now at:

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