Live Europe '83

Live Europe '83
Live album by
ReleasedJanuary 1984
RecordedVarious dates on 1983 European concert tour
GenreFolk
Length50:42
LabelAriola
ProducerGerard Tempesti
Joan Baez chronology
Honest Lullaby
(1979)
Live Europe '83
(1984)
Joan Baez: Classics
(1986)

Live Europe '83 is a 1984 live album by Joan Baez, taken from performances during her previous year's tour. It found Baez beginning to update her image (which she would continue to do on subsequent releases) by including songs like "Children of the Eighties" (her own composition, written for the children born after the 1960s) alongside old fan favorites like "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Farewell Angelina". She subsequently rewrote some of the lyrics of "Warriors of the Sun", as can be heard on the version of the song that appears on 1989's Speaking of Dreams. The album was not released in the US, due to Baez's lack of a US recording contract at the time. The German version of the album substituted the German songs "Wozu sind Kriege da" and "Wenn unsere Brüder kommen" for the album's two French songs. It was also released in Canada on the Gamma label, and it was the Canadian version that most US fans purchased as an import.

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Track listing

German edition

All tracks are written by Joan Baez, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Farewell Angelina"Bob Dylan3:05
2."Warriors of the Sun" 4:18
3."A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"Bob Dylan5:42
4."Lady Di and I" 4:40
5."Wozu sind Kriege da"Udo Lindenberg4:12
6."Wenn unsere Brüder kommen"Konstantin Wecker2:39
7."(For the) Children of the Eighties" 4:09
8."The Love Inside"Barry Gibb3:52
9."Me And Bobby McGee"Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster3:32
10."No Woman, No Cry"Bob Marley3:46
11."Imagine"John Lennon3:16
12."Jaria Hamuda"Ahmed Hamza1:40
13."Here's to You"Joan Baez, Ennio Morricone2:31
14."Land of a Thousand Dances"Antoine Domino, Chris Kenner3:14

Canadian / French / Dutch / Portuguese / Argentinian / Australian / Italian / edition

All tracks are written by Joan Baez, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Farewell Angelina"Bob Dylan3:05
2."Warriors of the Sun" 4:18
3."A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"Bob Dylan5:42
4."Lady Di and I" 4:40
5."A Tous Les Enfants"Boris Vian, Claude Vence2:50
6."Prendre Un Enfant"Yves Duteil4:11
7."(For the) Children of the Eighties" 4:09
8."The Love Inside"Barry Gibb3:52
9."Me And Bobby McGee"Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster3:32
10."No Woman, No Cry"Bob Marley3:46
11."Imagine"John Lennon3:16
12."Jaria Hamuda"Ahmed Hamza1:40
13."Here's to You"Joan Baez, Ennio Morricone2:31
14."Land of a Thousand Dances"Antoine Domino, Chris Kenner3:14

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)[1] Platinum 400,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ "Les Certifications depuis 1973: Albums". Infodisc.fr. Retrieved November 16, 2019. (select "Joan Baez" from drop-down list)