Sayer was a pretty big star in the late 1970s. He wrote most of his own songs, and even co-wrote most of the songs on the first solo album by the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey in 1973, including the hit "Giving It All Away." His biggest success was in 1977, when he had two huge Number One hits, "You Make Me Feel like Dancing" and "When I Need You." However, his success declined a lot in the mid-1980s, when he suffered a bunch of personal problems and legal and financial problems related to bad management and record company woes. You can read his Wikipedia entry here:
I found an audio bootleg of this concert, but it had lots of issues. The person who recorded it off the T.V. at the time apparently missed the start of a couple of songs due to turning the recording off for commercial breaks. Those two songs were "In My Life" and "The Show Must Go On," which is why they have "[Edit]" in their titles. I found other versions from that era to fill in the missing sections. For "In My Life," the version I found, from a 1976 concert, had a drastically different pitch, so I hope the result here is decent. That song also seemingly broke into a different bluesy instrumental song in the middle in a way that I'm not sure was actually what happened on stage. But I'm not sure, so I kept that.
I had to make some other minor changes here and there. The sound quality is good, but not great, probably due to it being taped off the T.V. in the 1970s.
Also note that I added a bonus track at the end. I was very surprised that maybe his biggest hit of all, "When I Need You," wasn't included, despite it being released a year before this concert. So I added that at the end, using a version performed on "The Midnight Special" TV show in 1980.
This album is 48 minutes long.
01 One Man Band (Leo Sayer)
02 How Much Love (Leo Sayer)
03 In My Life [Edit] (Leo Sayer)
04 Train (Leo Sayer)
05 You Make Me Feel like Dancing (Leo Sayer)
06 Dancing the Night Away (Leo Sayer)
07 Raining in My Heart (Leo Sayer)
08 Thunder in My Heart (Leo Sayer)
09 Long Tall Glasses [I Can Dance] (Leo Sayer)
10 The Show Must Go On [Edit] (Leo Sayer)
11 When I Need You (Leo Sayer)
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The cover image is from a different 1978 concert. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any video or photos from this exact concert.
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