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Concert for Kampuchea (EP)

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
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Live album by Various Artists
Released 30 March 1981 (1981-03-30)
Recorded 26–29 December 1979, Hammersmith Odeon, London
Genre Rock
Length 77:54
Label Atlantic
Producer Chris Thomas
Wings chronology
Back to the Egg
(1979)Back to the Egg1979
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea
(1981)
Wingspan: Hits and History
(2001)Wingspan: Hits and History2001

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea is a double album by Wings, the Who, Queen, Elvis Costello, the Pretenders, the Clash, the Specials, and other artists featuring highlights from the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea held at the Hammersmith Odeon in London to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia. It has yet to be released on CD.

The album starts with four songs from the Who (culled from a 3-hour set list) and finishes with three songs from Wings and three from the all-star line-up called Rockestra. The best of the concerts was released as a film, Concert for Kampuchea.

Rockestra was a Paul McCartney-led supergroup of at least thirty English rockers. The credited list appears at the bottom of the back cover of the LP. The name was first given 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 McCartney compositions, the instrumental "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad to See You Here".


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