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Released | August 2009 | |||
Recorded | 2 July 2009 and 3 July 2009 Hyde Park, London, UK |
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123:22 (2 July 2009) 122:22 (3 July 2009) |
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Label | Parlophone | |||
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All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park is a pair of live albums by British band Blur, recorded during their Hyde Park reunion shows on 2 and 3 July 2009. The albums were initially exclusively available on the Sandbag website at £15 for the double CD, or £10 for the mp3 download. The title All the People is a reference to the lyrics in their song "Parklife".
All the People was first released exclusively through the Live Here Now online store on 30 August 2009 as a double disc CD or 320kbit/s digital download. Although the two performances were released as separate albums for each date, both versions had the same track listing. On 23 November 2009, the albums were available to buy from other stores.
To promote the album, a promotional live album was given free in The Sunday Times. The album, titled Live 2009, contains ten tracks performed through various concerts in their 2009 tour, including the "Song 2" performance found on 2 July album and "The Universal" performance found on 3 July album.
It was released in the magazine on 22 November 2009, alongside Culture: The Summer of Blur book
All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree, except for "Out of Time" written by Albarn, James, Rowntree.
The track lengths given as 2 July / 3 July.
Both albums entered the UK Albums Chart in the first week of September 2009 for one week only. The 3 July 2009 version charted the higher of the two albums at number 44.