''BBC Sessions / Live at Reading Festival '86'' is a live compilation album by the British heavy metal band

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

. It was recorded live in studio by the BBC's Tony Wilson for the

BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and Contemporary hit radio, current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including ...

shows of the early 1980s and at the 1986

Reading Festival The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading, Berkshire, Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend ...

, where Saxon were the headliners.

Track listing

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15 February 1980 Studio B15 Live 25 May 1982

/ Friday Rock Show recorded 23 August 1986, broadcast 24 October 1986 The recording here is incomplete, BBC Radio having broadcast:

Credits

Biff Byford Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford (born 15 January 1951) is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon. Early life Byford was born in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, the youngest of four children to Ernest Cha ...

– vocals *Graham Oliver – guitar *Paul Quinn – guitar *

Steve Dawson Steven "Dobby" Dawson (born 24 February 1952) is an English bass guitarist and a founder of the heavy metal band Saxon (band), Saxon. Dawson started out in 1970 in the band Blue Condition, which became SOB after a few shows only, together wit ...

– bass guitar *

Pete Gill Peter Gill (born 9 June 1951) is an English former heavy metal drummer, formerly a member of the Glitter Band, Saxon and Motörhead. Gill was one of the two drummers in the Glitter Band, then formed part of the original line-up of Saxon i ...

– drums *Nigel Glockler – drums ; Production *

Tony Wilson Anthony Howard Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007) was a British record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager and impresario, and a journalist for Granada Television, the BBC and Channel 4. As a co-founder ...

– producer * Tony Wilson – engineer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:BBC Sessions Saxon (band) live albums BBC Radio recordings 1998 live albums 1998 compilation albums EMI Records live albums