Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
(album and EP)
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
Live album by Various Artists
Released March 30, 1981 (1981-03-30) (US),
3 April 1981 (UK)
Recorded 26-29 December 1979
(Hammersmith Odeon)
Genre
Rock
Length
77:54
Label
Atlantic
Producer Chris Thomas
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Paul McCartney chronology
McCartney
II
(1980)
Concerts for the People
of Kampuchea
(1981)
Tug of
War
(1982)
Concert for Kampuchea
EP by The Rockestra
Released
24 September 1980
Recorded
Hammersmith Odeon
December 31, 1979
Genre
Rock
Length
12:08
Label
Atlantic Records
Producer
Paul McCartney
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea is
a double album from Wings, The Who,
Queen, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, The
Clash, The Specials, and many more artists of
the highlights from the Concerts for the
People of Kampuchea held at the Hammer-
smith Odeon in London, England to raise
money
for
the victims of war-torn
in
Cambodia.
History
The album starts with four songs from The
Who (culled from a 3-hour set list) and fin-
ishes with three songs from Wings and three
from the all-star lineup called Rockestra. The
best of the concerts was also released as a
film. A promotional Rockestra EP was re-
leased in 1980, with four songs. The EP has a
track not released on the album, "Rockestra
Theme" (a 58-second intro track); the other
songs are the same.
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (album
and EP)
1
Rockestra was a Paul McCartney-led su-
pergroup of at least thirty English rockers.
The credited list appears at the bottom of the
back cover of the LP. The name was first giv-
en to an assemblage of famous rock stars
that were brought together by McCartney for
the final Wings album, 1979’s Back to the
Egg. The supergroup—which consisted of
Wings, John Paul Jones and John Bonham of
Led Zeppelin, David Gilmour from Pink
Floyd, Ronnie Lane of The Faces, Kenney
Jones and Pete Townshend of The Who, and
Hank Marvin of The Shadows—recorded two
McCartn