Perfect Night: Live in London

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Perfect Night: Live in London
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 21, 1998 (1998-04-21)
RecordedJuly 3, 1997 (1997-07-03)
Venue Royal Festival Hall, London
Genre Rock
Length66:08
Label Sire
Producer
  • Lou Reed
  • Mike Rathke
Lou Reed chronology
Retro
(1998)
Perfect Night: Live in London
(1998)
A Retrospective
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Perfect Night: Live in London is a live album by American musician Lou Reed recorded during the Meltdown '97 festival. It includes a version of the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror", originally sung by Nico. The album includes two songs, "Talking Book" and "Into the Divine" from the 1996 play Time Rocker Reed's collaboration with Robert Wilson (direction and design), and Darryl Pinckney (text). [3] The cover photograph was taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. In Australia, the 2-CD tour edition of Reed's 2000 album Ecstasy included Perfect Night as the second disc.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lou Reed.

Side one

  1. "I'll Be Your Mirror" 3:16
  2. "Perfect Day" 3:46
  3. "The Kids" 4:26
  4. "Vicious" 5:40
  5. "Busload of Faith" 4:27
  6. "Kicks" 4:16
  7. "Talking Book" 3:43
  8. "Into the Divine" 3:34

Side two

  1. "Coney Island Baby" 6:11
  2. "New Sensations" 6:07
  3. "Why Do You Talk" 2:38
  4. "Riptide" 4:13
  5. "Original Wrapper" 4:49
  6. "Sex with Your Parents" 2:56
  7. "Dirty Blvd." 6:06

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Perfect Night: Live in London liner notes. [4]

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References

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  3. Pareles, Jon (14 November 1997). "NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL REVIEW/MUSIC; Echoes of H. G. Wells, Rhythms of Lou Reed". The New York Times.
  4. Perfect Night: Live in London (CD booklet). Lou Reed. Sire Records. 1998.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)