Live at the BBC is a compilation live album of the British progressive rock band Curved Air

Curved Air

Curved Air are a pioneering British progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classic, folk, and electronic sound. The resulting sound of the band was a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fusion with classical elements...

 from sessions on:

• November 10, 1970 (tracks 1-3)
• January 5, 1971 (tracks 4-5)
• March 9, 1971 (tracks 6-8)
• January 29, 1976 (tracks 9-13)

The album's liner notes give conflicting dates for the sessions. The prose section lists the dates as above, while a secondary listing dates tracks 1-3 as April 28, 1970, places track 6 in the same session at tracks 4-5, and provides the unlikely date of January 27, 1971 (three weeks after the previous session) for tracks 7 and 8.

The album was released in 1995.

Reception

Allmusic said the album was "typical of BBC rock compilations, with alternate live radio versions that serious fans will find highly enjoyable, though more casual admirers will find the material unnecessary." They noted the solid sound quality and lightly praised the band's blending of classical, rock, and folk.

Track listing

1. "Vivaldi" (Darryl Way) – 6:25
2. "Propositions" (Francis Monkman)/"What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up" (Monkman, Sonja Kristina Linwood) – 5:23
3. "It Happened Today" (Monkman, Linwood) – 4:39
4. "Young Mother In Style" (Way, Linwood) – 5:14
5. "Situations" (Way, Rob Martin) – 5:38
6. "Blind Man" (Way, Martin) – 2:45
7. "Thinking On The Floor" (Way, Linwood) – 4:01
8. "Stretch" (Way, Monkman) – 4:34
9. "Stark Naked" (Way, Mick Jacques, Stewart Copeland, Phil Kohn, Linwood) – 5:44
10. "Woman On A One Night Stand" (Linwood, Norma Tager) – 5:43
11. "Midnight Wire" (Way, Tager) – 6:20
12. "Hot 'N' Bothered" (Jacques, Tager) – 3:02
13. "The Fool" (Way, Jacques, Tager) – 6:43

"Thinking On The Floor" and "Stark Naked" were not released on any official album releases, while the lyrics for "Young Mother In Style" are different to those of the song "Young Mother" on their Second Album.

Personnel

• Sonja Kristina – vocals
• Ian Eyre – bass (tracks 4 to 8)
• Robert Martin – bass (tracks 1 to 3)
• Tony Reeves
  Tony Reeves
  Anthony 'Tony' Reeves is an English bass guitarist/contrabassist, noted for his "extremely prominent and complex bass sound" and use of electronic effects...
  
   – bass (tracks 9 to 13)
• Florian Pilkington-Miksa
  Florian Pilkington-Miksa
  Florian Pilkington-Miksa was the drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air. He subsequently joined Kiki Dee's band. In 2008 he became a founding member of the most recent incarnation of Curved Air.-References:...
  
   – drums (tracks 1 to 8)
• Stewart Copeland
  Stewart Copeland
  Stewart Armstrong Copeland is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks...
  
   – drums (tracks 9 to 13)
• Darryl Way
  Darryl Way
  Darryl Way is a British rock and classical musician who was a founding member of Curved Air and co-writer of their only hit single, "Back Street Luv". He is best known as a violinist although he also played keyboards.He began his musical training at Dartington College of Arts, and later studied at...
  
   – violin, vocals
• Mick Jacques – guitar(tracks 9 to 13)
• Francis Monkman
  Francis Monkman
  Francis Monkman is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Curved Air.-Career:...
  
  – guitar, keyboards (tracks 1 to 8)

Credits

• Producer - Frances Line (tracks 7 to 8), John Muir (tracks 4 to 6), John Walters (tracks 1 to 3), Mike Appleton (tracks 9 to 11)
• Engineer - Bob Conduct (tracks 1 to 3), John White (tracks 4 to 6), Tom Corcoran (tracks 9 to 11)