Hey Krist!!
Get your money ready
The blurb:
============================================================On
9th March 2015, a newly expanded
3CD version of
Judas Priest’s platinum-certified 1984 album
‘Defenders of the Faith’ will be unleashed...
This special
30th Anniversary Edition includes the original ten-track album, fully remastered and a complete live recording from the ‘Defenders’ tour, recorded at the Long Beach Arena in California on 5th May, 1984.
The 21-track concert (split up over two discs) perfectly balances the then-new material from the group's ninth studio offering overall, including such classics as 'Metal Gods,' 'Breaking the Law,' 'Sinner,' 'Electric Eye,' 'The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown),' 'Victim of Changes,' and 'You’ve Got Another Thing Coming,' among many others.
"It's 30 years since we released 'Defenders of the Faith' - we're very proud to say it has become a classic that's beloved by Priest fans throughout the world" Judas Priest continues to 'defend the faith' to this day, as the group recently issued their seventeenth studio album, 'Redeemer of Souls,' which sees the band's popularity amongst metalheads remain as strong as ever, as it debuted higher than any other previous Priest release, hitting #1 in many countries. On the group's current tour, quite a few classics from 'Defenders' are being performed for the first time in years. Soon, fans will get a chance to re-experience vintage Judas Priest, with the 'Defenders of the Faith' reissue!
============================================================ I'm particularly looking forward to the live stuff, as this tour was the first I'd seen them on (December 22nd 1983 - their 'hometown' gig at Birmingham Odeon)
The live songs are listed on Amazon as:
I can't find a setlist for the Odeon show, but this set from three weeks later in Copenhagen looks about right:
Prior to the first gig at Birmingham Odeon (the played it on the 21st and the 22nd), I remember the local BBC 'Midlands Today' news programme made a big thing about the band coming back home to play after making it big in the States; they interviewed them in the afternoon on the stage at the Odeon and played a short clip of the Freewheel Burning video.
I also remember they played three songs live on Channel 4's classic music show The Tube, and luckily footage of those performances still exists (from January 6th 1984):