Jackie Leven Live Or Die - Live in Bremen 1999 & 2004 (4-CD)

The singer-songwriter, folk musician and storyteller Jackie Leven, born in 1950 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the son of an Irishman and a Roma, began his musical career in the late 1960s under the pseudonym John St. Field, under which he also recorded his first album "Control" in 1973. Inspired by punk, he founded the band Doll by Doll in London in 1978. The band's emotional, psychedelic-tinged New Wave was very well received live, but the band's four albums did not achieve the expected commercial sales results. After Doll By Doll disbanded in 1983, Jackie Leven concentrated on his solo career. After some personal and health-related strokes of fate, however, this only picked up speed 11 years later with the release of the album "The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death".
Jackie Leven also used several pseudonyms, for example he released three albums under Sir Vincent Lone with songs that were too out of the ordinary for his image as a folk musician. Leven died in 2011 at the age of 61 after a long, serious illness. His musical legacy also includes two concerts that Jackie gave in Bremen in 1999 and 2004, which were recorded by the broadcaster in the usual excellent sound quality. The 1999 concert in the Bremen music club "Moments" was performed by Jackie solo, in 2004 in the Radio Bremen broadcasting hall he was accompanied on keyboards by his long-time friend and web companion Michael Cosgrave.