Chicago & Friends “Live At 55” celebrating the 55th anniversary of the band’s groundbreaking double-platinum debut album Chicago Transit Authority will be available via Mercury Studios on November 22, 2024. The film is offered in various formats including DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2CD, 4K UHD, 2CD, 3LP, digital audio & digital video. Fans can also order exclusive Chicago & Friends merchandise, including t-shirts, hoodies, a hat & wine tumbler, at store.mercurystudios.co.
Chicago, the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band with more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, are captured in this 2½ hour event recorded this past November at Ovation Hall at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ in front of a live audience of 10,000 fans over two nights. The film, produced by Award Winning Producer Barry Summers as part of the critically acclaimed Decades Rock Live concert series, features the band who play songs from the album, including some never-before-performed songs as well as “unplugged” versions of some of Chicago’s classic tunes.
Joined by special guests Robin Thicke, Chris Daughtry, Steve Vai, VoicePlay, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, each performance is visualized in vibrant video and animation.
“This concert film is a unique approach to any of our previous live performances,” said Chicago founding member Lee Loughnane. “We very rarely play with guest artists, much less seven of them. It was very interesting to work with each guest and experience their interpretations of our music.”
To celebrate the 55th anniversary of their double-Platinum debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, the band plays songs from the album, their biggest hits, and “unplugged” a cappella arrangements of some of Chicago’s classic tunes captured in an emotionally moving centerpiece, with each visualized in all original full-length animations shown against an an amazing custom LED backdrop.
3LP TRACK LISTING
Side A
Introduction
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Beginnings
Questions 67 and 68
Listen (with Robert Randolph)
Side B
South California Purples (Short Version) (with Steve Vai)
Poem 58 (with Steve Vai)
I’m A Man (with Chris Daughtry & Robert Randolph)
Dialogue Part 1 and 2 (with Robert Randolph)
Side C
(I've Been) Searchin' So Long
Mongonucleosis
Street Player
Make Me Smile (with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram)
Colour My World (with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram)
Now More Than Ever (‘Smile’ Reprise) (with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram)
Side D
Call On Me (with Robin Thicke)
Alive Again (with Judith Hill)
Wishing You Were Here (with VoicePlay)
Happy Man (with VoicePlay)
If You Leave Me Now (with VoicePlay)
Look Away (with VoicePlay)
Side E
Old Days
Hard Habit To Break (with Chris Daughtry)
Just You ‘N’ Me
Hard To Say I’m Sorry / Getaway
In The Country (with Robert Randolph)
Side F
Saturday In The Park (with Robin Thicke)
Free
You’re The Inspiration (with Judith Hill)
Feelin’ Stronger Every Day (with Judith Hill)
25 or 6 to 4 (with all guest artists)
4K Tracklisting:
Introduction
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Beginnings
Questions 67 and 68
Listen (with Robert Randolph)
South California Purples (Short Version) (with Steve Vai)
Poem 58 (with Steve Vai)
I’m A Man (with Chris Daughtry & Robert Randolph)
Dialogue Part 1 and 2 (with Robert Randolph)
Call On Me (with Robin Thicke)
(I've Been) Searchin' So Long
Mongonucleosis
Street Player
Make Me Smile (with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram)
Colour My World (with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram)
Now More Than Ever (‘Smile’ Reprise) (with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram)
Alive Again (with Judith Hill)
Old Days
Hard Habit To Break (with Chris Daughtry)
Wishing You Were Here (with VoicePlay)
Happy Man (with VoicePlay)
If You Leave Me Now (with VoicePlay)
Look Away (with VoicePlay)
Just You ‘N’ Me
Hard To Say I’m Sorry / Getaway
In The Country (with Robert Randolph)
Saturday In The Park (with Robin Thicke)
Free
You’re The Inspiration (with Judith Hill)
Feelin’ Stronger Every Day (with Judith Hill)
25 or 6 to 4 (with all guest artists)
Bonus Features: Interviews with Chicago and all guest artists
ABOUT CHICAGO
The legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in as the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine's Top 125 Artists of All Time. Chicago recently received The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the GRAMMYS and was previously inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame in 2014. Band members Robert Lamm and James Pankow have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017. Further to that, the band has 21 Top 10 singles, five consecutive Number One albums, 11 #1 singles and five Gold singles, with a total of 48 Gold and Platinum awards. The original three band members are Robert Lamm on keyboards and vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and vocals and James Pankow on trombone. The band line-up also includes Ray Herrmann on woodwinds, Walfredo Reyes Jr. on drums, Neil Donell on vocals, Ramon "Ray" Yslas on percussion, Tony Obrohta on guitar, Loren Gold on keyboards and vocals, and Eric Baines on bass and vocals.
MERCURY STUDIOS
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Current and recent projects include Oscar and BAFTA award nominated American Symphony, directed by Matthew Heineman for the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions/Netflix, If These Walls Could Sing, directed by Mary McCartney for Disney+, My Life as a Rolling Stone for the BBC and MGM+, Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl for Netflix, This Town, a six-part series for the BBC from writer, creator, and executive producer Steven Knight, Linda Perry: Let it Die Here, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and the recently announced One to One: John & Yoko from Oscar and BAFTA award winning director, Kevin Macdonald.
Mercury Studios also produced Sam Smith: Live at the Royal Albert Hall for BBC, Billie Eilish’s Overheated at the O2 London and Lang Lang Plays Disney for Disney+.
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