{"product_id":"dick-gaughan-live-at-the-bbc-1972-1979","title":"Dick Gaughan - Live At The BBC 1972-1979","description":"\u003cp\u003eDick Gaughan was professionally active from 1970-2016, retiring on health grounds and living now quietly in Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003eWhile Handful of Earth (1981) remains his most lauded single body of work, it marked, for the artist himself, the end of an era - the absolute best that he could do within traditional music.\u003cbr\u003eFrom that point on, contemporary songwriting, often in service to social commentary, became more prominent.\u003cbr\u003eFor reasons most easily described as the vicissitudes of rights ownership and the consequent absence from the marketplace of several early albums, ready access to the 'first phase' of Dick's career - the ten years preceding Handful of Earth - has long been difficult.\u003cbr\u003eThis album, LIVE AT THE BBC - and its parent set, the 7CD\/DVD R\/evolution: 1969-83 - retrieves that 'lost era' in abundance, revealing the magnificence of Dick Gaughan's early music for the twenty-first century listener.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TALKING ELEPHANT","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53206670442823,"sku":"TRI-67597","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/e8a23430badb655bac2f45847a45b111_10cf5186-3862-4d5d-bf20-09e20d97125f.jpg?v=1769374077","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/dick-gaughan-live-at-the-bbc-1972-1979","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}