Greatest Albums Live - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Dexys Midnight Runners
Artists perform the albums they believe made them and talk to Jo Whiley about influences, creative process and legacy, beginning with Dexys Midnight Runners.
Stereophonics
Stereophonics take to the stage at London's Clapham Grand Theatre to play Just Enough Education to Perform, the 2001 album that earned them huge international success.
ABC
Accompanied by the Southbank Sinfonia at the London Palladium, pop band ABC perform and discuss The Lexicon of Love, one of the 1980s' most successful debut albums.
Simple Minds
Simple Minds perform their breakthrough 1982 album New Gold Dream at Paisley Abbey, including the hit Promised You a Miracle.
Gregory Porter
The singer-songwriter and his band perform the Grammy-winning Liquid Spirit - his biggest selling album yet - at London's Middle Eight Hotel.
Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton enjoyed huge success in the '70s touring Frampton Comes Alive!. Here, the guitar icon performs the classic album at Tennessee's Tucker Theatre.
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