Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005

Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005
Live album by Cream
Publication (s)	October 4, 2005
admission	2-3 and May 5-6, 2005
Label (s)	Reprise Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, DVD, Blu-ray
Genre (s)	Hard rock , psychedelic rock , blues rock , rock
Title (number)	19th
running time	115: 35
occupation	Eric Clapton - guitar , vocals Jack Bruce - bass , harmonica , vocals Ginger Baker - drums , vocals
production	Simon Climie
Studio (s)	Royal Albert Hall
chronology Gold (2005) Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 -

Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 is a live album by British rock band Cream . It was released on October 4, 2005 on CD and DVD under the Reprise Records label and contains a representative film cross-section of the four Reunion concerts.

background

On May 2, 2005, Cream gave the first concert since the breakup 36 years ago. The now 60-year-old Clapton is said to have agreed to the reunion mainly because of the poor health of his colleagues: Jack Bruce, then 62, had recently survived a liver transplant and the now 65-year-old Baker suffered from arthritis. It was the prelude to four appearances in London's Royal Albert Hall . From October 24th to 26th, 2005, the group also gave three concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Track list

CD 1 I'm So Glad ( Skip James ) - 6:18 Spoonful ( Willie Dixon ) - 7:29 Outside Woman Blues ( Blind Joe Reynolds ) - 4:33 Pressed Rat and Warthog (Baker, Mike Taylor ) - 3:21 Sleepy Time Time (Bruce, Janet Godfrey) - 6:08 NSU (Bruce) - 6:02 Badge (Clapton, George Harrison ) - 3:59 Politician (Bruce, Pete Brown ) - 5:08 Sweet Wine (Baker, Godfrey) - 6:28 Rollin 'and Tumblin' ( Muddy Waters ) - 5:02 Stormy Monday ( T-Bone Walker ) - 8:09 Deserted Cities of the Heart (Bruce, Brown) - 3:56 CD 2 Born Under a Bad Sign ( Booker T. Jones , William Bell) - 5:31 We're Going Wrong (Bruce) - 8:26 Crossroads ( Robert Johnson ) - 4:25 White Room (Bruce, Brown) - 5:39 Toad (Baker) - 10:07 Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) - 8:46 Sleepy Time Time (Alternative Take) - 6:07

DVD 1 I'm so glad Spoonful Outside Woman Blues Pressed Council and Warthog Sleepy Time Time NSU Badge Politician Sweet Wine Rollin 'and tumblin' Stormy Monday Deserted Cities Of The Heart Born Under a Bad Sign We're going wrong Sleepy Time Time (Alternative Take) We're Going Wrong (Alternative Take) DVD 2 Crossroads Sitting on Top of the World ( Chester Burnett ) White Room Toad Sunshine of Your Love Sunshine of Your Love (Alternative Take)

reception

Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the work as "not exactly exciting, but very far from the embarrassing". He also said that the album "is nowhere near the previous live and studio albums and the excellent BBC sessions". He awarded a total of three out of five possible stars for the album. JD Considine of Blender magazine, however, noted that Cream "sounds better than ever". He awarded four out of five stars. While the readers of the CDstarts.de website only found the album to be “solid”, their critics rated it “excellent”: Also because of the repertoire, “it is still basically fun today and definitely belongs in every form in some way decent record collection. "

In the UK the album reached # 61 in the UK Top 40 and stayed there for two weeks. In Austria, the album was ranked 51st in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 and number one in the Top 10 music DVD chart. In the United States, the album ranked number 59 on the Billboard 200 .

Awards for music sales

album

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI)	gold	100,000
United States (RIAA)	-	55,000
All in all	1 × gold	155,000

Video

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	platinum	15,000
Germany (BVMI)	gold	25,000
France (SNEP)	gold	10,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	5,000
United States (RIAA)	5 × platinum	500,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	platinum	50,000
All in all	2 × gold 8 × platinum	605,000

Web links

• Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 with Allmusic (English)
• Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6 2005 in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Album review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , blender.com  
2. ↑ Cream - Royal Albert Hall May 2-3-5-6 (Rock) - CDstarts.de , accessed on January 10, 2015, cdstarts.de
3. ↑ CREAM | Artist | Official Charts , accessed January 10, 2015, officialcharts.com
4. ^ Royal Albert Hall London may 2-3-5-6 from Cream , accessed January 10, 2015, chartsurfer.de
5. ↑ Austria Top 40 - Music DVD Top 10 , accessed on January 10, 2015, austriancharts.at
6. ↑ Cream - Chart history | Billboard , accessed January 10, 2015, billboard.com
7. ↑ ^{a b} gold / platinum database. Federal Association of the Music Industry , accessed on January 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Sales for Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 in the United States
9. ↑ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2005 DVD. Australian Recording Industry Association , accessed January 25, 2020 . 
10. ^ Les Certifications - SNEP. Syndicat National de l'édition Phonographique , accessed January 25, 2020 (French). 
11. ^ Dean Scapolo: The Complete New Zealand Music Charts: 1966 - 2006 . Ed .: Maurienne House. 2007, ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8 (English).
12. ^ Gold & Platinum - RIAA. Recording Industry Association of America , accessed January 25, 2020 . 
13. ↑ BRIT Certified - BPI. British Phonographic Industry , accessed January 25, 2020 .