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John Denver is one of the most successful and best loved recording artists of the 20th century. His easy going manner, fine voice, superb songwriting and dedication to environmental issues all combined to build a huge global fanbase that has continued to grow since his untimely death in a plane crash in 1997. This superb 5 disc set is the definitive John Denver DVD release. There are three complete live performances with full band from Australia in 1977, Japan in 1981 and England in 1986. These are complemented by a solo acoustic performance from Japan in 1984 and his performances at Farm Aid from 1985, 1987 & 1990. The final disc has two hour long documentaries made by John Denver, his 1990 Earth Day programme about environmental issues and his 1972 show about the Bighorn sheep of his beloved Rocky Mountains.
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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Although the release of this wonderful DVD box is still a couple of months away, I thought I'd post the track listing here. Needless to say this is a must have for any John Denver fan!
TRACKLISTING - JOHN DENVER - AROUND THE WORLD LIVE
Disc One - Thank God I'm A Country Boy - Live In Australia 1977
1. Farewell Andromeda
2. Spirit
3. Fly Away
4. Looking For Space
5. Come And Let Me Look In Your Eyes
6. Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight
7. Druthers
8. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy
9. How Can I Leave You Again
10. Singing Skies And Dancing Waters
11. Love Is Everywhere
12. Pickin' The Sun Down (Blue Grass & High Sierra)
13. I Want To Live
14. Rocky Mountain High
15. Follow Me
16. Moreton Bay
17. To The Wild Country
18. Grandma's Feather Bed
19. Back Home Again
20. Matthew
21. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
22. Take Me Home, Country Roads
23. Annie's Song
24. Eagle And The Hawk
25. Calypso
26. Sunshine On My Shoulders
27. Leaving On A Jet Plane
Bonus Tracks:
1. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
2. Thirsty Boots
3. Boy From The Country
4. Like To Deal With The Ladies
5. When I'm 64
Total Running Time: 136 minutes
Disc Two - Rocky Mountain High - Live In Japan 1981
1. Starwood In Aspen
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Follow Me
4. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy
5. Leaving On A Jet Plane
6. Goodbye Again
7. Rocky Mountain Suite
8. Matthew
9. Fly Away
10. Dancing With The Mountains
11. Back Home Again
12. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
13. Sleepin' Alone
14. Rocky Mountain High
15. Eagle And The Hawk
16. Annie's Song
17. Calypso
18. Sunshine On My Shoulders
Bonus Tracks:
1. Mother Nature's Son
2. How Mountain Girls Can Love
3. Sweet Surrender
4. Johnny B. Goode
5. Memphis
6. Lil Suzie
7. Boy From the Country
Total Running Time: 99 minutes
Disc Three - Country Roads - Live In England 1986
1. Farewell Andromeda
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Grandma's Feather Bed
4. Back Home Again
5. Matthew
6. Dreamland Express
7. The Harder They Fall
8. I Can't Escape
9. Flying For Me
10. What Are We Making Weapons For
11. Sunshine On My Shoulders
12. Eagle And The Hawk
13. Wild Montana Skies
14. Relatively Speaking
15. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy
16. How Can I Leave You Again
17. I'm Sorry
18. Shanghai Breezes
19. Fly Away
20. My Sweet Lady
21. Heart To Heart
22. Rocky Mountain High
23. Annie's Song
24. Calypso
25. Peace (poem)
26. It's About Time
27. Perhaps Love
Bonus Tracks:
1. Boy From The Country
2. Claudette
3. Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight
4. I Remember You
5. Sweet Surrender
Total Running Time: 142 minutes
Disc Four - Solo Acoustic Show - Live In Japan 1984 / Farm Aid
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Sunshine On My Shoulders
3. Leaving On A Jet Plane
4. Goodbye Again
5. Follow Me
6. Matthew
7. Grandma's Feather Bed
8. I Want To Live
9. Rhymes & Reasons
10. Eagle And The Hawk
11. The Gold And Beyond
12. Take Me Home, Country Roads
13. Biwako Shuko No Uta
14. Seasons Of The Heart
15. Annie's Song
16. Calypso
17. It's About Time
Farm Aid 1985:
1. Take Me Home, Country Roads
2. Back Home Again
3. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
Farm Aid 1987:
1. Take Me Home Country Roads
2. Matthew
3. What Are We Making Weapons For
Farm Aid 1990:
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Matthew
Total Running Time: 99 minutes
Disc Five - Documentaries
1. The Bighorn (1972)
2. Earth Day Documentary (1990)
Total Running Time: 116 minutes
TRACKLISTING - JOHN DENVER - AROUND THE WORLD LIVE
Disc One - Thank God I'm A Country Boy - Live In Australia 1977
1. Farewell Andromeda
2. Spirit
3. Fly Away
4. Looking For Space
5. Come And Let Me Look In Your Eyes
6. Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight
7. Druthers
8. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy
9. How Can I Leave You Again
10. Singing Skies And Dancing Waters
11. Love Is Everywhere
12. Pickin' The Sun Down (Blue Grass & High Sierra)
13. I Want To Live
14. Rocky Mountain High
15. Follow Me
16. Moreton Bay
17. To The Wild Country
18. Grandma's Feather Bed
19. Back Home Again
20. Matthew
21. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
22. Take Me Home, Country Roads
23. Annie's Song
24. Eagle And The Hawk
25. Calypso
26. Sunshine On My Shoulders
27. Leaving On A Jet Plane
Bonus Tracks:
1. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
2. Thirsty Boots
3. Boy From The Country
4. Like To Deal With The Ladies
5. When I'm 64
Total Running Time: 136 minutes
Disc Two - Rocky Mountain High - Live In Japan 1981
1. Starwood In Aspen
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Follow Me
4. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy
5. Leaving On A Jet Plane
6. Goodbye Again
7. Rocky Mountain Suite
8. Matthew
9. Fly Away
10. Dancing With The Mountains
11. Back Home Again
12. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
13. Sleepin' Alone
14. Rocky Mountain High
15. Eagle And The Hawk
16. Annie's Song
17. Calypso
18. Sunshine On My Shoulders
Bonus Tracks:
1. Mother Nature's Son
2. How Mountain Girls Can Love
3. Sweet Surrender
4. Johnny B. Goode
5. Memphis
6. Lil Suzie
7. Boy From the Country
Total Running Time: 99 minutes
Disc Three - Country Roads - Live In England 1986
1. Farewell Andromeda
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Grandma's Feather Bed
4. Back Home Again
5. Matthew
6. Dreamland Express
7. The Harder They Fall
8. I Can't Escape
9. Flying For Me
10. What Are We Making Weapons For
11. Sunshine On My Shoulders
12. Eagle And The Hawk
13. Wild Montana Skies
14. Relatively Speaking
15. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy
16. How Can I Leave You Again
17. I'm Sorry
18. Shanghai Breezes
19. Fly Away
20. My Sweet Lady
21. Heart To Heart
22. Rocky Mountain High
23. Annie's Song
24. Calypso
25. Peace (poem)
26. It's About Time
27. Perhaps Love
Bonus Tracks:
1. Boy From The Country
2. Claudette
3. Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight
4. I Remember You
5. Sweet Surrender
Total Running Time: 142 minutes
Disc Four - Solo Acoustic Show - Live In Japan 1984 / Farm Aid
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Sunshine On My Shoulders
3. Leaving On A Jet Plane
4. Goodbye Again
5. Follow Me
6. Matthew
7. Grandma's Feather Bed
8. I Want To Live
9. Rhymes & Reasons
10. Eagle And The Hawk
11. The Gold And Beyond
12. Take Me Home, Country Roads
13. Biwako Shuko No Uta
14. Seasons Of The Heart
15. Annie's Song
16. Calypso
17. It's About Time
Farm Aid 1985:
1. Take Me Home, Country Roads
2. Back Home Again
3. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
Farm Aid 1987:
1. Take Me Home Country Roads
2. Matthew
3. What Are We Making Weapons For
Farm Aid 1990:
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Matthew
Total Running Time: 99 minutes
Disc Five - Documentaries
1. The Bighorn (1972)
2. Earth Day Documentary (1990)
Total Running Time: 116 minutes
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Like many fans around the world I have been counting the days since this superb John Denver 5-DVD boxset's expected release was first announced early in the summer. It seemed too good to be true. Fans would finally be getting what they have been longing for: a difinitive high quality DVD live record of this remarkable man in concert through the years. John Denver's great performances have been neglected for far too long and fans could only access such material on Youtube.
It is my hope that John Denver Around the World Live is a huge success, and that fans everywhere will buy it, so that there will be further releases from John Denver's remarkable legacy as a singer songwriter and performer around the world. The tapes are gathering dust in TV archives around the world, and fans are longing to see them.
Now here it is and it has been truly worth waiting for! What we get, in this European edition at least, are four complete concerts from Australia (1977), Tokyo (1981), Birmingham (1986), each with additional bonus songs, and a solo acoustic show from Lake Biwa, Japan (1984); plus various brief appearances at Farm Aid concerts in 1985, 1987 and 1990. The boxset is rounded off by two of John Denver's documentaries: Earth Day 1990 and Bighorn (1972).
This superb boxset comes in the NSTC format, which can be played on almost all recently manufactured PAL DVD players, and is region 0, so it can be played in all regions around the world. Also included is an attractive booklet containing concert setlists, with lots of unseen fan photos, and notes by Executive Producer Hal Thau.
The Australia 1977 outdoor show has John giving his more animated and light-hearted 1970s style of presentation that delighted fans around the world. In all there are 27 songs in the concert proper and five bonus songs. The concert is, sadly, without the much loved crowd-pleasing 'Today' which was cut because of damage to the master tape, but it does include 'Leaving on a Jet Plane', and of course 'Boy From the Country', which apppears as a bonus song. These two performances are seen here for the first time since they were not in the original TV broadcast. This show is outstanding! John is backed by Lee Holdridge and his orchestra and by some of the finest singers and musicians available anywhere: Hal Blaine, Herb Petersen, James Burton, Mike Crumm, Danny Wheatman, Glen D. Hardin, Emory Gordy Jr., and Renee Armand.
The Japan concert of 1981 has 18 songs, with a further seven bonus songs, performed before an audience that included the then Japanese crown prince and princess. It is simply superb! This impressive concert is also available as a separate single DVD release with the title 'Rocky Mountain High: Live In Japan'.
The England concert of 1986 presents John again in a more sober and laid-back mood singing at the NEC, in Birmingham. Again, there are 27 songs in the concert proper, with five bonus songs. John is said to have been quite ill during this concert, and it shows in his voice in the second half, but he delivered a masterful performance right to the end: including memorable duets with backing singers Conrad Reeder on 'Fly Away' and Elizabeth Lamers on 'Wild Montana Skies'.
Even with 9 hours and 52 minutes of DVD playing time it is impossible for any boxset to include all the great hits, all the true classic John Denver songs, but this boxset is very representative of this great artist's work up to 1990. Sadly, there is no 'Poems, Prayers and Promises', 'For Baby (For Bobbie)', 'Windsong' and a host of other favourites.
It appears that the boxset version on sale in the United States does not have the 17 bonus songs available on this set. I wondered why the Michael Martin Murphey classic 'Boy From the Country', which became one of John Denver's signature songs, appears only as a bonus song on each of the discs for the Australia, Birmingham and Tokyo concerts, and not at all on the Lake Biwa show where it was the first song in the programme.
Among the highlights of these 17 bonus songs are two delightful Everly Brothers classics: 'Wake Up Little Susie' sung as a duet with musician and backing singer Herb Petersen in Japan 1981; and 'Claudette' another duet with backing singer Denny Brooks in Birmingham in 1986.
The Lake Biwa live acoustic show is my personal favourite in the boxset, even though it is listed as having only 17 tracks. In fact there are 18 tracks! Here was John for the most part by himself, just his soaring voice and his guitars giving his all on a rainy day in Japan. There are beautiful renditions of his classics 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Goodbye Again', 'Follow Me', 'Matthew', 'I Want To Live', 'Rhymes and Reasons' and more. I was especially thrilled to find an extra unlisted track after the 'Song For Lake Biwako', where John performs 'The Lord's Prayer' in Indian sign language. This hidden treasure is mentioned nowhere in the booklet or on the DVD's menu - but believe me, it is there!
This wonderful John Denver DVD boxset leaves me pleading for more. I can only congratulate and offer sincerest gratitude to the producers for the superb job they have done in restoring the footage presented on these discs, and I look forward to future releases.
It is my hope that John Denver Around the World Live is a huge success, and that fans everywhere will buy it, so that there will be further releases from John Denver's remarkable legacy as a singer songwriter and performer around the world. The tapes are gathering dust in TV archives around the world, and fans are longing to see them.
Now here it is and it has been truly worth waiting for! What we get, in this European edition at least, are four complete concerts from Australia (1977), Tokyo (1981), Birmingham (1986), each with additional bonus songs, and a solo acoustic show from Lake Biwa, Japan (1984); plus various brief appearances at Farm Aid concerts in 1985, 1987 and 1990. The boxset is rounded off by two of John Denver's documentaries: Earth Day 1990 and Bighorn (1972).
This superb boxset comes in the NSTC format, which can be played on almost all recently manufactured PAL DVD players, and is region 0, so it can be played in all regions around the world. Also included is an attractive booklet containing concert setlists, with lots of unseen fan photos, and notes by Executive Producer Hal Thau.
The Australia 1977 outdoor show has John giving his more animated and light-hearted 1970s style of presentation that delighted fans around the world. In all there are 27 songs in the concert proper and five bonus songs. The concert is, sadly, without the much loved crowd-pleasing 'Today' which was cut because of damage to the master tape, but it does include 'Leaving on a Jet Plane', and of course 'Boy From the Country', which apppears as a bonus song. These two performances are seen here for the first time since they were not in the original TV broadcast. This show is outstanding! John is backed by Lee Holdridge and his orchestra and by some of the finest singers and musicians available anywhere: Hal Blaine, Herb Petersen, James Burton, Mike Crumm, Danny Wheatman, Glen D. Hardin, Emory Gordy Jr., and Renee Armand.
The Japan concert of 1981 has 18 songs, with a further seven bonus songs, performed before an audience that included the then Japanese crown prince and princess. It is simply superb! This impressive concert is also available as a separate single DVD release with the title 'Rocky Mountain High: Live In Japan'.
The England concert of 1986 presents John again in a more sober and laid-back mood singing at the NEC, in Birmingham. Again, there are 27 songs in the concert proper, with five bonus songs. John is said to have been quite ill during this concert, and it shows in his voice in the second half, but he delivered a masterful performance right to the end: including memorable duets with backing singers Conrad Reeder on 'Fly Away' and Elizabeth Lamers on 'Wild Montana Skies'.
Even with 9 hours and 52 minutes of DVD playing time it is impossible for any boxset to include all the great hits, all the true classic John Denver songs, but this boxset is very representative of this great artist's work up to 1990. Sadly, there is no 'Poems, Prayers and Promises', 'For Baby (For Bobbie)', 'Windsong' and a host of other favourites.
It appears that the boxset version on sale in the United States does not have the 17 bonus songs available on this set. I wondered why the Michael Martin Murphey classic 'Boy From the Country', which became one of John Denver's signature songs, appears only as a bonus song on each of the discs for the Australia, Birmingham and Tokyo concerts, and not at all on the Lake Biwa show where it was the first song in the programme.
Among the highlights of these 17 bonus songs are two delightful Everly Brothers classics: 'Wake Up Little Susie' sung as a duet with musician and backing singer Herb Petersen in Japan 1981; and 'Claudette' another duet with backing singer Denny Brooks in Birmingham in 1986.
The Lake Biwa live acoustic show is my personal favourite in the boxset, even though it is listed as having only 17 tracks. In fact there are 18 tracks! Here was John for the most part by himself, just his soaring voice and his guitars giving his all on a rainy day in Japan. There are beautiful renditions of his classics 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Goodbye Again', 'Follow Me', 'Matthew', 'I Want To Live', 'Rhymes and Reasons' and more. I was especially thrilled to find an extra unlisted track after the 'Song For Lake Biwako', where John performs 'The Lord's Prayer' in Indian sign language. This hidden treasure is mentioned nowhere in the booklet or on the DVD's menu - but believe me, it is there!
This wonderful John Denver DVD boxset leaves me pleading for more. I can only congratulate and offer sincerest gratitude to the producers for the superb job they have done in restoring the footage presented on these discs, and I look forward to future releases.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
As a John Denver fan, just cannot wait for this release..If the Sydney Concert is Re-mastered then this is what everyone has been waiting for.....Hope the DVD is a world wide release, have pre-ordered mine and many Australians will have happy memories...Well done
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John Denver: Around the World Live.
This is a beautifuly produced and packaged DVD set; comprising 5 DVD's of live performances in Australia,England and Japan featuring all of his best known works. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by East Bank Allan.
WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!
Ive been a John Denver fan now for 40 years... Phew.. well I was only 18 when I discovered this man. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by Mrs. Carole Thompson
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Published on 5 Jan 2010 by Kevin Bruce Legge
A great collection
This is really a superb 5 disc set; I expecially enjoyed the first two discs (Australia 1977 & Japan 1981) because John plays with a STELLAR band feat. James Burton, Glen D. Read more
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A must have for Denver fans
What can you say, a great package of John Denver DVDs a "must buy" for anyone who loves his music. Very good quality and all the favourite songs and then some!!! Go get it!
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A must have for all John Denver fans wordwide
Excellent DVD set with more promised if this one sells well, so all JD fans need to support this project and purchase a copy. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by jcoyne
great value
This is great value and a must for all John Denver fans.
Personally I was not a fan, but my wife persuaded me to see him live in Nottingham in the early eighties. Read more
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John Denver at his best
John Denver was at his best when singing to an audience - I always felt that his studio albums didn't do him justice. So, this DVD set reveals the full extent of his talent! Read more
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