BRIAN BOYDand TONY CLAYTON-LEAreview this weeks music DVDs
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM & STEVIE NICKS
Live
Metrodome Video★★★★
Rolling Stonemagazine was absolutely correct when it labelled Lindsey Buckingham one of rock music's most undervalued visionaries. When he joined the then moribund Fleetwood Mac in 1975, he helped them create their career-high
Rumorsalbum. Apart from his work with the Mac, he's also released several very good-quality solo albums. Here we catch him in concert running through some of his best band and solo moments –
Troubleand
Big Loveincluded. The shows gets more than a little lift when his ex-partner (both on-stage and off), Stevie Nicks, joins him for
Never Going Back Againand a thumping
Go Your Own Way. You may not think a Lindsey Buckingham music DVD has that much to offer. Think again. This is great.
BRIAN BOYD
LEONARD COHEN
Live in London
Columbia/Sony★★★★
Leonard Cohen's comeback tour has turned into a not-going-away series of concerts; we know he has his detractors (indeed, some lay in the very bowels of
The Ticket's labyrinthine dungeons), but everyone has – particularly Cohen in the wake of the gutting of his most famous song,
Hallelujah, by more people than we care to count. Last year was the first time in many years that he graced stages, and those shows are gracefully exemplified by this classy DVD, which places the seventysomething poet/singer in London's O2 Arena, a space that somehow becomes transformed into a rather sizeable sittingroom, such is the engaging delivery and intimacy of the material (which includes the likes of
Suzanne,
Tower of Song,
So Long,
Marianneand
Sisters of Mercy). No extras, unless you specifiy as an "extra" suit-wearing roadies.
TONY CLAYTON-LEA
