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From Bert regarding this recording; "I was often asked to go on a concert tour. Earlier, when I still worked as a musician myself, I went on tour a lot, by bus or by truck. I wouldn't like to go back to that! But there's another reason why I don't go on tour: I wouldn't get the musicians that I've got in the studio. I can't just take them with me - they don't want to lose their jobs. Most of my people have got permanent jobs, in radio, in television or in a record company. They can't get out of their contracts. They've got too much to do with recording deadlines, and then I'd just get second-class or third-class musicians. Besides, all my records are recorded in Hamburg studios. The sound that people are used to getting on a record is virtually impossible to reproduce in a concert hall. But one day, someone else came up to me, John Martin, and asked me that question again: 'How about just one date in the Albert Hall in London?' And I asked:'Just one date? One concert?' - 'Yes!' - I'd never thought about that. He said:' You'll get the best musicians you could ever want, the best in London. You can also bring your own musicians with you, as many as you like.' And I said:' Why not? Let me think about it.' Yes, that's how the concert came about."