The Seventies had been a tumultuous interval for Eric Clapton, full of private highs and lows and a exceptional profession revival. Within the final days of the last decade, he performed on the well-known Budokan Theatre in Tokyo as a part of his world tour to help the 1978 album Backless. The outcomes of that efficiency can be captured on the stay double LP Simply One Night time, which entered the UK charts on Might 10, 1980.
Clapton’s band of the time was, usually, filled with A-list expertise together with his fellow guitar maestro Albert Lee, Procol Harum keyboard participant and frontman Gary Brooker, and widely-traveled keyboard man Chris Stainton (a veteran of Joe Cocker’s band and the Mad Canine and Englishmen tour who was a brand new member of E.C.’s group at this stage). Dave Markee performed bass on the tour and Henry Spinetti, whose credit included Paul & Linda McCartney’s Ram, Gerry Rafferty’s Metropolis To Metropolis, and numerous others, performed drums.
The monitor itemizing for Simply One Night time (truly a two-night stand on the Budokan, on December 3 and 4) was a time capsule of the place “Slowhand” was in his profession as he entered the Eighties. “After Midnight” and “Cocaine,” the staples by his nice favourite J.J. Cale, underpinned the set, and his pop viewers had been effectively catered for with such later 70s hits as “Wonderful Tonight” and “Lay Down Sally.”
Clapton sings Knopfler
Clapton additionally included his model of “Setting Me Up,” the Mark Knopfler track from the primary, self-titled Dire Straits album, as a vocal showcase for Lee. Different covers included bluesman Otis Rush’s “Double Trouble” and the Robert Johnson commonplace “Rambling On My Mind.”
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Simply One Night time made a comparatively modest first exhibiting on the UK album chart at No.27, however the next week it soared to No.3, staying there a second week. Within the US, it peaked at No.2, and was licensed gold inside only one month of its chart debut.
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