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• Phil Manzanera (guitars, ex-Roxy Music)
• Brian Eno (keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, and vocals, ex-Roxy Music)
• Bill MacCormick (bass and vocals, ex-Quiet Sun, Matching Mole)
• Francis Monkman (Fender Rhodes piano and clavinet, ex-Curved Air)
• Simon Phillips (drums and rhythm generator)
• Lloyd Watson (slide-guitar and vocals).

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History

In 1976, while Roxy Music had temporarily disbanded, 801 (also referred to as THE 801) got together as a temporary project and began rehearsing at Island Studios, Hammersmith, about three weeks before their first gig. The name of the band was taken from the Eno song "The True Wheel", which appears on his 1974 solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). The refrain of the song -- "We are the 801, we are the central shaft" -- reportedly came to him in a dream. Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). ... For the album by The Cure, see Concert (album). ... Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: ) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. ... Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a 1974 rock album by Brian Eno. ...

801 performed three critically highly acclaimed concerts: in Norfolk, at the Reading Festival and the final concert on September 3 at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. This last concert was recorded live and released as the album 801 Live. The music consisted of more or less mutated selections from albums by Manzanera, Eno, and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me". The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ... Quiet Sun was a UK Canterbury Scene band consisting of Phil Manzanera (guitars), Bill MacCormick (bass), Dave Jarrett (keyboards) and Charles Hayward (drums). ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... The Kinks were an English rock group formed in 1963 by lead singer-songwriter Ray Davies, his brother, lead guitarist and vocalist Dave Davies, and bassist Pete Quaife. ...

Released at the height of the punk rock revolution in the UK, the LP was not a major commercial success, but it sold well throughout the world, particularly because it gained rave reviews from critics, both for the superb performances by the musicians and for its groundbreaking sound quality. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

Although live albums were by then becoming increasingly sophisticated in their production -- thanks to the advent of portable multi-track recorders and mobile studios -- most were hampered by relatively poor sound quality. Up until this time, the standard procedure for both front-of-house mixing and live recording was capture the sound of amplified intruments such as guitars by placing microphones in front of the amplifiers. Although many superb performances were captured, the results were still markedly inferior to studio recordings and live recordings often suffered from a range of problems such as distortion, noise, sound "leakage" between instruments, poor separation and intrusive audience sounds.

801 Live set new standards for live recordings because it was one of the first live LPs in which all outputs from the vocal microphones, guitar amps and others instruments (except the drums) were fed directly to the mobile studio mixing desk, rather than being recorded via microphones and/or signals fed out the front-of-house PA mixer. This so-called "Direct Injection" (DI) method had been used for years in the studio but this was one of the first instances of the method being successfully used to record a live album.

801 Live became a significant cult success in many countries, notably in Australia, where it was heavily promoted by the ABC's new 24-hour rock station Double Jay (2JJ), which had opened in January 1975. Although based in Sydney, the station could be heard widely around New South Wales and was relayed nationally after midnight via the ABC's national AM network. It is notable that 801 Live received virtually no commercial radio airplay, it had no music video to promote it, and it was originally not even locally released in Australia. Despite this, the album became the highest-selling import album of the year in Australia in 1976 and demand for it as an import item eventually forced the Australian distributors to release it locally. The Band Flowers Later known as ICEHOUSE played many songs of the Album as covers in Live performances around the Northern Beaches in the 70's. Some of these were Third Uncle and Baby's on Fire, they also covered some of Brian Eno's other tracks such as Backwater from Before and After Science. This may have been a reason for the high sales during this period. Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...

In 1977, hoping to capitalise on the success of 801 Live, the band recorded and released Listen Now, a studio album with additional collaborating musicians including Tim Finn of Split Enz, but without Lloyd Watson. Live in Dublin 2007 Brian Timothy “Tim” Finn OBE (born June 25, 1952) is a singer and songwriter. ... Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the late 1970s and the early 1980s featuring brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. ...

In late 1977, 801 reformed as another live group around Manzanera and MacCormick for a promotion tour for the album Listen Now. Their concert at Manchester University was finally released as the album 801 Manchester in 2001.

Discography

801 Live, Listen Now and Manchester University have been re-released on Manzanera's Expression label with additional tracks, the track listings and album covers below refer to those re-releases.

801 Live Track Listing

Cover of the 801 Live album re-release

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Side One

1. "Lagrima" (Manzanera)
2. "TNK (Tomorrow Never Knows)" (Lennon/McCartney - The Beatles)
3. "East of Asteroid" (Manzanera/MacCormick)
4. "Rongwrong" (Hayward - Quiet Sun)
5. "Sombre Reptiles" (Eno)

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Bonus Tracks added to 1999 Reissue

1. "Golden Hours" (Eno)
2. "Fat Lady of Limburg" (Eno)

Side Two

1. "Baby's on Fire" (Eno)
2. "Diamond Head" (Manzanera)
3. "Miss Shapiro" (Manzanera/Eno)
4. "You Really Got Me" (Davies)
5. "Third Uncle" (Eno)

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Personnel

• Phil Manzanera (guitar)
• Brian Eno (keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, and vocals)
• Bill MacCormick (bass and vocals)
• Simon Phillips (drums and rhythm generator)
• Francis Monkman (Fender Rhodes piano and clavinet)
• Lloyd Watson (slide-guitar and vocals).

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Listen Now

Album cover of Listen Now

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Track listing

1. "Listen Now"
2. "Flight 19"
3. "Island"
4. "Law and Order"
5. "Rude Awakening" *
6. "Que?"
7. "City of Light"
8. "Initial Speed"
9. "Postcard Love"
10. "That Falling Feeling"
11. "Blue Gray Uniform" *
12. "Remote Control" *

- * Songs not included on the original LP release

Personnel

• Phil Manzanera (guitar, acoustic piano, Hammond organ)
• Eno (guitar treatment, chorus piano, synthesizer)
• Simon Ainley (lead vocals)
• Bill MacCormick (bass, vocals)
• Ian MacCormick (vocals)
• Tim Finn (vocals)
• Kevin Godley (vocals, percussion)
• Lol Creme (vocals)
• Billy Livsey (clarinet, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes)
• Mel Collins (soprano saxophone)
• John White (tuba)
• Eddie Jobson (acoustic piano, Fender piano)
• Eddie Rayner (acoustic piano)
• Francis Monkman (Fender Rhodes, synthesizer)
• Rhett Davies (Hammond organ)
• Simon Phillips (drums, percussion)
• Dave Mattacks (drums)
• Alan Lee (background vocals)

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Complete 801 Live at Manchester University

Album cover
of "801 Manchester"

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Track listing

1. "TNK (Tomorrow Never Knows)"
2. "Flight 19"
3. "Listen Now"
4. "Law and Order"
5. "Que"
6. "City of Light"
7. "Initial Speed"
8. "That Falling Feeling"
9. "Diamond Head"
10. "Out of the Blue"
11. "Remote Control"
12. "Miss Shapiro"
13. "You Really Got Me"

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Personnel

• Phil Manzanera (guitar)
• Paul Thompson (drums)
• Andy MacKay (saxophone)
• David Skinner (keyboards)
• Simon Ainley (lead vocals and guitar)
• Bill MacCormick (bass)
• Kevin Godley Special Guest
• Lol Creme Special Guest

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References

• AllMusic.com - 801
• http://www.manzanera.com/801LivePR.htm#Press - 801 Live: The Official Manzanera/Eno Press Pack
• http://www.manzanera.com/801Live1.htm - 801 Live - Links to reviews, articles, photographs and press
• http://www.manzanera.com/shopmaster/EXP16CD.htm - 801 Live Catalogue Details
• http://www.manzanera.com/Listennow1.htm - Listen Now - Links to reviews, articles, photographs and press
• http://www.manzanera.com/shopmaster/EXP17CD.htm - Listen Now Catalogue Details
• http://www.manzanera.com/shopmaster/EXP25CD.htm - 801 Live at Manchester University Catalogue Details
• http://billylivseymusic.com/disco.html - Billy Livsey Music Discography

See also

• Triple J