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unusual facts about Hammersmith Odeon



Alchemy: Dire Straits Live

Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22–23 July 1983, the album features the band's best-known and fan-favourite songs from their first four albums, the ExtendedancEPlay EP, and the Local Hero soundtrack (composed by Mark Knopfler); many of the songs have reworked arrangements and/or extended improvisational segments.

Beast over Hammersmith

Recorded 20 years previously, during The Beast On The Road tour at the Hammersmith Odeon, the footage was specially co-produced and mixed by Steve Harris and Doug Hall to be a part of the Eddie's Archive box set.

Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert

Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert is a live album released by American heavy metal band Anthrax on January 22, 2007 internationally and on November 10, 2009 in the U.S. It contains Anthrax's February 15, 1987 show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London (disc 1), as well as their performance at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington on August 22, 1987 (disc 2).

Live at Hammersmith '79

Live at Hammersmith '79 is a live album by Ted Nugent, consisting of a performance originally broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour, recorded during the second set of a sold-out night at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1979 and not released until 1997.

Nö Sleep at All

Guitarist Würzel is quoted in the insert of the re-mastered CD release, saying; "A lot of fans were saying that they want to hear this line-up on a live album. EVERYBODY seems to record at the Hammersmith Odeon don't they? Or the Fillmore East when that was going, or the Budokan and all those flash places. So we thought we'd do it in Finland".

Recital of the Script

Recital of the Script is a live album by Marillion, recorded at a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon (as it was called then), London on 18 April 1983.

The Court of the Crimson King

The song was covered by King Crimson members Ian McDonald and John Wetton with Steve Hackett on Hackett's Tokyo Tapes and by Greg Lake featuring Gary Moore on Lake's Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1981 live album released by King Biscuit Records in 1996.


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Oberkorn

In addition, Depeche Mode also used the Oberkorn song as a prelude to the My Secret Garden song from the A Broken Frame album when recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon, now named HMV Hammersmith Apollo.

Simon Goddard

Originally planned to mark the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s July 1973 “retirement” concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, the book’s release ended up coinciding with Bowie’s 2013 comeback album The Next Day and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s record-breaking David Bowie Is exhibition.

The Manhattan Transfer Live

The Manhattan Transfer Live was recorded by The Manhattan Transfer live at Manchester on 23 April 1978, Bristol on 28 April 1978, and the Hammersmith Odeon Theatre, London, on 2 May 1978.