Otis Redding - Live in London & Paris
Artist:
Otis Redding
Review:
Otis Redding didn’t simply “play concerts.” The soul giant was a
human Mount Vesuvius: He erupted. Redding was at the height of his
fame in March 1967, when he played these two brief shows in London
and Paris. (He would die in a plane crash in December that year.)
And the audience’s reaction is ecstatic — it’s a fair bet
that few of these Europeans had ever witnessed a spectacle quite
like Redding and the all-star Stax house band, Booker T. and the
MG’s and the Mar-Key horns, tearing into…
Rating:
4 Stars
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