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• The Ultimate Eddie Izzard Collection | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £31.05   |  Saving you £13.94 (44.90%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Ultimate Eddie Izzard Collection: Definite Article / Unrepeatable / Glorious / Circle / Sexie / Stripped / Dress To Kill (7 Discs)

• Shania Twain - Live | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  For erstwhile "new country" outsider Shania Twain, the commercial impact of her first live video doubtless carries the sweet smell of revenge. Twain's mid-1990s breakthrough, fuelled by formidable production polish and carefully groomed videos, conspicuously delayed live shows until long after the expatriate Canadian's success crossed into platinum territory--an omission that prompted some sceptics to theorise the would-be megastar's talent was accomplished through studio legerdemain. Shania Twain Live may benefit from plenty of polish and more than a little calculation in its staging, but the singer/songwriter's long apprenticeship in lounge bands and resort revues north of the border is apparent. Whether one loves or loathes her songs, Twain herself comes across as a seasoned performer who knows how to work the audience.Equally apparent, and equally unlikely to resolve the division between fans and foes, is Twain's crossover agenda. Scaled for the arenas that Twain and her handlers targeted early on, the concert is closer in pace and power-chords to a mainstream rock show than most country acts, an orientation that aligns the star with Garth Brooks's swaggering attack rather than most country songstresses. Her band may boast three fiddlers, but their slashing attack emulates the kilowatt buzz of the rock guitarists that share the scrim, who pull off familiar string-bending flourishes. As for the front woman, in her electric-green leopard-print top, hip-hugging pants, and meticulously permed, waist-length hair, she resembles some improbably aerobicised white Rastafarian.The set list is a generous one, reproducing most of Twain's back-to-back platinum albums, and illustrates her skill at mixing melting ballads, flirtatious rockers that enable her to strut her physical beauty, and songs testifying to her self-reliance. Still, for all Twain's assertions that she won't suffer fools gladly, the songs ultimately reveal a traditional romanticism with a moderate, post-feminist spark. One need only check out the power equation behind such songs as "Honey, I'm Home" and "Any Man of Mine" to recognise Twain's themes are ultimately much older than their crossover wrappers. --Sam Sutherland

• Boz Scaggs - Greatest Hits | DVD | (29/01/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tracklisting: 1. Lowdown 2. Slow Dancer 3. Heart Of Mine 4. It All Went Down The Drain 5. Harbour Lights 6. Jo Jo 7. Ask Me 'Bout Nothin' 8. But The Blues 9. Breakdown Dead Ahead 10. Look What You've Done To Me 11. I Just Go 12. Georgia 13. Miss Sun 14. Lido Shuffle 15. Runnin' Blues 16. Loan Me A Dime 17. We're All Alone

• Duran Duran | DVD | (29/01/2009) from £10.09   |  Saving you £-0.10 (-1.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Duran Duran fans have known for years that Duran Duran is really a rock act in pop music clothing and these performances of frantically rocky 'Hungry Like The Wolf' 'Thunderous' 'Wild Boys' and the stadium rock of 'View To A Kill' deliver the right sound and visual aesthetic. A true Duran Duran fan has been there from the first single to right now ask any member of the crowd and they'd tell you it was fantastic. Being a Duranie is a case of selfless love. This DVD features a perfor

• Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £8.45   |  Saving you £11.54 (136.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This award-winning performance continues to delight Eddie Izzard fans worldwide. In 'Dressed To Kill' Izzard satirizes the history of Western culture through his unique comedic unique style of fun and wit.

• Don Henley - Live Inside Job | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £9.38   |  Saving you £5.61 (59.81%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Don Henley helped define the 70's as a member of the enormously successful rock band the Eagles before launching an impressive solo career that includes such hits as 'Dirty Laundry' 'The Boys Of Summer' and 'All She Wants To Do Is Dance'. On May 25 2000 he returned to his Texas roots for a remarkable concert recorded before an enthusiastic audience at Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas. This rock legends live performance captures all the passion satire and originality that fans around the world most treasure in his influential music. Track listing:- Dirty Laundry; Sunset Grill; Workin' It; Taking You Home; The Boys Of Summer; Lilah; Everything Is Different Now; The End Of The Innocence; All She Wants To Do Is Dance; New York Minute; Talking To The Moon; They're Not Here They're Not Coming; The Heart Of The Matter; Desperado; The Long Run; My Thanksgiving; Hotel California

• Barry Manilow - Manilow Live! | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  30 Live Musicians. 24 Top Hits. One Amazing Night. Barry Manilow is a master showman who makes each lyrical passage an intimate gift to his fans. His sold-out performance in the heart of Nashville proves why this performer's 25-year career has been so exceptional. From the first standing ovation to the last Barry Manilow's diverse style will enchant any music enthusiast. Tracklisting includes; Could It Be Magic? Somewhere In The Night Tryin' To Get The Feeling Can't Smile Wit

• Barry Manilow - Manilow Live | DVD | (16/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Even before he steps out onto the stage, the audience is on its feet clapping and screaming for Barry Manilow in Manilow Live!, which was filmed in Nashville in February 2000. Walking out and launching into "Could it Be Magic?" Manilow proves his pipes are as strong and clear as ever and his suits still as dapper. He promises "beautiful melodies, passionate lyrics, great grooves, and maybe even some swivelling hips", to the delight of the sold-out house. A consummate showman, Manilow performs 24 of his biggest hits accompanied by full orchestra. During "Can't Smile Without You", the audience holds up signs bearing smiley faces, hearts, and "ME" in hopes that the singer will pick them for his traditional duet. "Bandstand Boogie," the long-time theme song for American Bandstand, rocks the house, then Manilow brings it down for perennial favourite, "Mandy", which segues into "Even Now". His timing is impeccable, and he knows exactly how to work the adoring crowd. The accordion interlude is particularly amusing, as is "Flight of the Bumblebee" played on a kazoo. Mixing pop, jazz, disco and big band, Manilow moves smoothly through the two-hour set, alternately sitting at the piano or standing at the mike. The bluesy "That's Life" gets an infusion of energy from audience participation, and "Copacabana" is just as infectious as ever (with Manilow doing a little of that hip-swivelling). Ending with a heartfelt encore of "Stars in the Night", Manilow Live! is a must-have for fans. --Dana Van Nest, Amazon.com

• Electric Light Orchestra - Zoom Live | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £19.00   |  Saving you £-9.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Since the early 1970's England's Electric Light Orchestra has combined intricate full orchestration with an underlying pop skeleton becoming one of the most popular and influential ""prog-rock"" bands in history. After a long hiatus from touring the United States ELO - led by Jeff Lynne - is filmed in a return to the American stage. Filmed at Los Angeles's CBS Television City Zoom Tour Live has the group performing tracks like ""State of Mind"" and ""10538 Overture"" with their typical

• Don Henley - Live Inside Job | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Don Henley helped define the 70's as a member of the enormously successful rock band the Eagles before launching an impressive solo career that includes such hits as 'Dirty Laundry' 'The Boys Of Summer' and 'All She Wants To Do Is Dance'. On May 25 2000 he returned to his Texas roots for a remarkable concert recorded before an enthusiastic audience at Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas. This rock legend's live performance captures all the passion satire and originality that fans around the world most treasure in his influential music. Tracklist: 'Dirty Laundry' 'Sunset Grill' 'Workin' It' 'Taking You Home' 'The Boys Of Summer' 'Lilah' 'Everything Is Different Now' 'The End Of Innocence' 'All She Wants To Do Is Dance' 'New York Minute' 'Talking To The Moon' 'They're Not Here They're Not Coming' 'The Heart Of The Matter' 'Desperado' 'The Long Run' 'My Thanksgiving' and 'Hotel California'.

• Blondie - Live By Request | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £18.24   |  Saving you £-0.25 (-1.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Originally performed and broadcast for A&E on May 7, 2004 from Manhattan's John Jay College, Blondie: Live by Request finds New York City's cherished punk-popsters older, rounder, and still in possession--if not always in complete control--of the fire needed for credible performances of classics like "Dreaming," "Rapture," "Call Me," and "Heart of Glass." The 2004 Blondie includes founders Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke solidly backed by Paul Carbonara (guitar), Kevin Topping (keyboards), and Leigh Foxx (bass). The disc's 17 tracks comprise Blondie's biggest hits, with "Atomic" notably absent and four cuts from 2003's Curse of Blondie (including a touching tribute to Joey Ramone) holding their own against the tried and true. Harry remains her flamboyant self, compensating for a diminishing vocal range with fresh phrasings and boundless pizzazz. Lead guitarist Stein seems lost at times, while drummer Burke plays tighter than ever, cementing the songs with a mix of disco sass and punk fervor. Keep your remote handy: caller requests and the show's vapid emcee get old fast. DVD sound is timbrally on target but dynamically compressed to within an inch of its life, but the mix breathes better in surround (Dolby or DTS) and it's easier on the ears in DTS. --Michael Mikesell

• Rush - Replay | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Live performances of all Rush classics plus 12 songs never previously available on DVD! Exit...Stage Left: (60 mins) 1. Limelight 2. Tom Sawyer 3. The Trees 4. Xanadu 5. Red Barchetta 6. Freewill 7. Closer To The Heart 8. YYZ 9. By-Tor And The Snow Dog / In The End* / In The Mood / 2112 Finale 10. YYZ Grace Under Pressure: (63 mins) 1. The Spirit Of Radio 2. The Enemy Within* 3. The Weapon* 4. Witch Hunt 5. New World Man 6. Distant Early Warning 7. Red Sector A 8. Closer To The Heart 9. YYZ / Temples Of Syrinx / Tom Sawyer 10. Finding My Way / In The Mood A Show Of Hands: (89 mins) 1. The Big Money 2. Marathon* 3. Turn The Page* 4. Prime Mover* 5. Manhattan Project* 6. Closer To The Heart 7. Red Sector A 8. Force Ten 9. Mission* 10. Territories* 11. The Rhythm Method 12. The Spirit Of Radio 13. Tom Sawyer 14. 2112 / The Temples Of Syrinx / La Villa Strangiato / In The Mood * - Indicates a live performance previously unreleased on DVD

• Kenny Rogers - Live By Request | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Though a little older and a little more gruff. Kenny Rogers is still a charmer who knows how to rope in an audience and keep them happily captive. Broadcast live from Sony Music Studios in New York City Kenny Rogers: Live by Request (2001) is an hour and a half of the country artist's greatest hits and audience favourites backed by a tight and smooth band. Tracklist: 1.Islands In The Stream 2.Daytime Friends 3.She Believes In Me 4.Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town 5.Love Wi

• Hall And Oates - Live In Concert | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Shania Twain: The Specials | DVD | (20/11/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £11.76 (58.80%)   |  RRP £31.76

• K.D. Lang - Live By Request | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Live by Request is, most certainly, a live recording of KD Lang, though nobody in the audience seems to do much requesting. Taped in December 2000 in New York, it shows Lang and her band before a smallish audience, rattling out a few of her better-known songs and some of Lang's generally creditable readings of standards, in between interruptions from a host who walks Lang through brief discussions of her career and influences. Listening to Lang sing is, of course, no hardship: few indeed are the vocalists who can mix it with the legacies of Roy Orbison ("Crying") and Patsy Cline ("Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray") and emerge with dignity intact, never mind reputation enhanced. That said, whatever intensity there may have been about the show on the night has not translated to this recording, and this is little more than a succession of polite performances greeted by polite applause. On the DVD: The picture format is the 4:3 television standard, and there are three sound modes to choose from (Dolby Digital Surround, DTS Surround, PCM Stereo). The menu of songs is easily navigable, but there are disappointingly no bonus features. --Andrew Mueller

• Electric Light Orchestra - Zoom Tour Live | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Zoom Tour Live is a superlative concert video that will be a godsend for fans of Electric Light Orchestra, since ELO's Zoom tour was sadly cut short due to lacklustre ticket sales. Judging from this tour-opening performance (in May 2001 at the CBS studios in Los Angeles), those cancelled gigs were a major loss, because Jeff Lynne's revamped ELO is in top form, playing six new songs from Zoom (ELO's first release in 15 years) and 17 hits from the band's beloved legacy. Like the meticulous producer he is, guitarist-composer Lynne plays cordial frontman to an appreciative audience, and his re-creation of ELO's classical-rock sound is astonishing in its fidelity to the studio recordings. From the moment ELO's signature space-ship stage blossoms to reveal Lynne's eight-piece ensemble (including, of course, two cellists), there's not a weak song in the brisk 98-minute set. Zoom Tour Live is ample compensation for those who bought useless tickets to an ill-fated show. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Korn - Live On The Other Side | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £3.00   |  Saving you £16.99 (85.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arena rockers Korn return to the intimate Hammerstein Ballroom to launch their new record 'See You On The Other Side' for a group of their closest fans. 'Live On The Other Side' brings you an up-front all-access pass to Korn from the first chord to the closing bow and much more. Shot in High Definition and recorded in Digital Surround Sound Korn 'Live On The Other Side' delivers the Korn event of a lifetime into your own living room. Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Here To Stay 3. Twist 4. Got The Life 5. Liar 6. A.D.I.D.A.S. 7. Coming Undone 8. Dirty 9. Falling Away From Me 10. Twisted Transistor 11. Did My Time 12. Shoots And Ladders 13. One 14. Freak On A Leash 15. Another Brick In the Wall/Goodbye Cruel World 16. Blind 17. Somebody's Someone 18. Hypocrites 19. Y'All Want A Single

• Sheryl Crow - Rockin' The Globe - Live | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £8.68   |  Saving you £6.31 (42.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sheryl Crow fans looking for a straightforward concert video can't go wrong with this 83-minute set, recorded in Detroit during the Globe Sessions tour of early 1999. Appearing in black leather pants and a black string-strap top, Cheryl is poised and professional, driving through 15 songs (nine from The Globe Sessions) with studio-set precision, despite the handicap of a receptive but oddly lifeless audience. (Perhaps the Motor City was merely idling that night.) Moving from acoustic guitar to bass, electric guitar, harmonica (on "It Don't Hurt"), and finally piano (for an exquisite rendition of "Home"), the Grammy winner makes it clear that she's as musically skilled as she is drop-dead gorgeous. Accompanied by a flawless six-piece band (with honorable mentions to guitarist Peter Stroud and violinist Lorenza Ponce), Crow rocks when it's time to rock (the climactic jam on "Riverwide" and "If It Makes You Happy" being standouts), but her strength remains in the more delicate passages of "Am I Getting Through", "The Kind", "Stong Enough", and the aforementioned "Home", an encore visually enhanced by rural images projected on an upstage scrim. Crow dedicates the set-closing rocker "Mississippi" to Bob Dylan, and even if a few favoured hits are not included, this remains a noteworthy performance. Camera coverage is slick and editing tight, and while VHS viewers will likely be satisfied, the DTS DVD is mildly problematic, failing to achieve the "you-are-there" dynamics that videophiles have a right to expect. Fortunately, the concert itself is not compromised; the recording is crisp and carefully mixed. Crow no doubt had more lively gigs during this particular tour, but with an accommodating stage and a first-rate band in good spirits, this was a pretty good night to have the cameras around. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £63.34   |  Saving you £-55.35 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Mariah Carey captured live at the legendary Proctor's Theatre in upstate New York. Tracklist: 1. Emotions 2. Hero 3. Someday 4. Without You 5. Make It Happen 6. Dreamlover 7. Love Takes Time 8. Anytime You Need A Friend 9. Vision Of Love 10. I'll Be There