BBC Rock Hour #18 (for 1978)
syndicated U.S. broadcast 1978, most likely in April
Golders Green Hippodrome
London
January 19, 1978
01 Brian Matthew - BBC Rock Hour 18 Intro
02 Be Bop Deluxe - New Precision
03 Be Bop Deluxe - Superenigmatix
04 Be Bop Deluxe - Possession
05 Commercial - Toyota
06 Commercial - U.S. Army
07 Be Bop Deluxe - Dangerous Stranger
08 Be Bop Deluxe - Islands of the Dead
09 Be Bop Deluxe - Panic In The World
10 Commercial - Toyota
11 Commercial - U.S. Army
12 Be Bop Deluxe - Lovers Are Mortal
13 Be Bop Deluxe - Love In Flames
14 Be Bop Deluxe - Blazing Apostles
15 Brian Matthew - BBC Rock Hour 18 Outro
Another from the fantastic, fabulous, and fun Sam Elliot's Mustache collection comes a batch of Be Bop Deluxe. My understanding is that this is a pre-FM recorded off the radio reel to reel.
This show was first broadcast on BBC Radio 1's Sight And Sound In Concert on February 4, 1978. The Drastic Plastic tour commenced on February 5, 1978, at Coventry Theatre and included 19 UK dates, so the original British broadcast of this was the day before they launched the tour.
In the United rock n' roll States of America, this show turned up on a BBC Rock Hour in the spring of 1978.
We're missing the tape box for this show, and there is no broadcast date on the cue sheet.
From 1976 through 1979, shows were sequentially numbered for each year, and then started over for the new year. For example...BBC Rock Hour #8 can be Barclay James Harvest...or Melanie/Don MClean...or Robin Trower.
While we're missing the U.S.broadcast date, we can work backwards from the following year's show. BBC Rock Hour #18 for 1979 was broadcast on April 20, 1979 (Friday). Using the 1979 information as a guide, it's likely this was broadcast on April 21, 1978 (Friday) in the USA.
This was officially released on At The BBC 1974-1978, a 3cd set issued in 2013. It appears to be out of print, but copies are available from the usual online vendors. So if you like this, go track down the out-of-print set.