"One and Only: 25 Years of Radio 1" - Various Artists
Compilation Album
U2 Related Content:
- "I Will Follow" (Live from London, Sep. 22, 1980) - U2 (03:49)
Full Track Listing:
Disc One:
- Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits (6:17)
- I Will Follow (Live in Studio, September 18, 1980) – U2 (3:49)
- Running Free – Iron Maiden (3:11)
- New Gold Dream – Simple Minds (5:03)
- Candle in the Wind – Elton John (3:31)
- King – UB40 (5:41)
- Karma Chameleon – Culture Club (4:10)
- Push Me Shove Me – Erasure (2:54)
- The Prince – Madness (2:36)
- Too Much Too Young – The Specials (2:08)
- I Believe – EMF (4:48)
- Boys Say Go – Depeche Mode (mislabelled Boys Say No) (2:45)
- Bedsitter – Soft Cell (3:35)
- Enola Gay – O.M.D. (3:05)
- Cars – Gary Numan (3:17)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division (3:25)
- What Difference Does it Make – The Smiths (3:15)
- Happy Talk – Captain Sensible (2:11)
Disc Two: - All Right Now – Free (5:32)
- Pump it Up – Elvis Costello (3:08)
- Can’t Stand Losing You – The Police (5:28)
- Spanish Castle Music – Jimi Hendrix (3:09)
- Love Like a Man – Ten Years After (4:51)
- Living in the Past – Jethro Tull (4:16)
- Si Tu Dois Partir – Fairport Convention (2:20)
- Nights in White Satin – Moody Blues (3:49)
- With a Little Help from My Friends – Joe Cocker (4:45)
- Ziggy Stardust – Bauhaus (3:13)
- Hot Love – T-Rex (3:11)
- Pretty Flamingo – Manfred Mann (2:40)
- Hole in My Shoe – Traffic (2:34)
- Blackberry Way – The Move (3:08)
- Pictures of Matchstick Men – Status Quo (3:06)
- Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way – Yardbirds (2:43)
- I’d Rather Go Blind – Chicken Shack (3:03)
- Fire – Arthur Brown (3:56)
Background Information
BBC Radio 1 first broadcast in the UK on September 30, 1967. This compilation album was put together and released in September 1992 to celebrate 25 years of broadcasting by the station. The compilation is made up of live, mostly in studio performances by artists throughout the 25 preceding years.
The U2 track, “I Will Follow” was recorded live in the studio. In September 1980, U2 performed four songs for Mike Read’s BBC show. The four songs were “I Will Follow”, “The Electric Co.”, “An Cat Dubh” and “Into the Heart”. These were played on the Read show over the following nights, each night a different performance was aired. The booklet of the CD lists that the performance by U2 was on September 18, 1980. Various U2 sites list the date as September 22 instead. Another performance on the BBC was recorded on September 29, 1980 for the Richard Skinner Sessions show. Both performances were at the Maida Vale Studios of the BBC, and we cannot be sure which is present on this recording. The remainder of the tracks from these 1980 sessions for the BBC have not been released officially.
Liner Notes
I Will Follow: Written by U2. Performed by: U2. Recorded: 18 / 9 / 80. Producer: Chris Lycett.