Carly Simon: Live from Martha's Vineyard
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Carly Simon: Live From Martha's Vineyard is a 1987 HBO concert special recorded live on the shores of Martha's Vineyard. It featured Simon and a live band performing the majority of her Coming Around Again album as well as her classic hits such as "Anticipation", "You're So Vain", and "Nobody Does It Better". On its first screening and release on HBO, the concert was entitled "Carly Simon - Coming Around Again".
Production and Release History
The concert was first released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1988, both editions are now out of print. A Region 1 DVD version was released in 2004 by Grandstand Entertainment, which quickly went out of print. Simon reissued the concert in 2009 under the Iris Records label as a Region All DVD, with no changes to the original cover art.
The concert was filmed over two days, the first being cloudy and misty and the second being bright and sunny, Simon recalls in several interviews that the original idea was to film both nights and then choose the best performances of each between them, with the wildly different weather though, of course it was not possible to intercut between performances. As a result, Simon reports that not only did she prefer the first evening's performance overall, but that the clouds and marine spray lent a certain air of mystery and intrigue as a backdrop for the concert.
In addition, Simon tells viewers that she considerably shortened the concert for the first evening due to the cold, but performed the concert in its' entirety the following evening, the missing songs from which can be found on both releases of the DVD as bonus footage.
Live album
Shortly after the concert aired, Arista released Greatest Hits Live, which is the soundtrack album to this concert. The album was a huge success, quickly going Gold, before being certified Platinum in 1996. It is also Simon's only live album to date.
Gathered are 11 songs from the concert, out of the 14 performed, with a different running order from the video version. The soundtrack also features a bonus track, The Right Thing To Do, which didn't make it into the final cut of the aired concert.
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