In the summer of 2004 I went with ill-fated wife #2 to Hyde Park in London for two gigs. One was Simon & Garfunkel in their possibly ironically named Old Friends tour, the Everly Brothers were the warm-up act. Simon & Garfunkel stood far apart on the stage and from memory didn’t speak to one another once. All the songs sounded exactly as they did on the original albums – something I always found with Eagles gigs, too – but of course the crowd knew every word to every song and still enjoyed the gig.

By far the more enjoyable of the two gigs was Red Hot Chili Peppers. The warm-up act was James Brown. The band played three sell-out gigs over the course of a week, and an album was made of it, Live in Hyde Park, which I can’t find on Spotify. However, I DID find it on YouTube, here, and it’s a little over two hours long. I’ll post a link to that in the chat in a moment. I listened to the whole album this afternoon and the time flew by. Used CDs (double album) available from £2.00 on Amazon, here.

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