UK melodic rock giants FM will release a new double live album entitled Tough It Out Live on 9th April. A celebration of their second album, Tough It Out, a video of the title track featuring footage taken from various shows on the band’s 30th Anniversary tour for the album in 2019 is available now.
“What a splendid tour this was,” says bassist and FM co-founder Merv Goldsworthy. “We recorded every show, so it was very difficult to pick which recordings to use as the audiences were amazing night after night. We are really pleased with the results. It was also great fun putting the second half of the album together as there are some great songs on there that are rarely played live.”
Originally released by Epic Records in 1989, Tough It Out broke into the UK Top 40 and saw contributions from song writing luminaries such as Desmond Child (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, etc), Jesse Harms, Robin Randall and Judithe Randall (Mark Free). The album is rightly regarded as a melodic rock/AOR classic and the band played the record in its entirety on their final shows of 2019 in the UK and Germany to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
In addition to the songs from the Tough It Out album, this live release also includes several tracks that FM have rarely performed live, cherry picked to offer the discerning fan an insight into the band’s deeper repertoire.
Tough It Out Live track list
CD1
- Intro
- Tough It Out
- Don’t Stop
- Bad Luck
- Someday (You’ll Come Running)
- Everytime I Think Of You
- Burning My Heart Down
- The Dream That Died
- Obsession
- Can You Hear Me Calling?
- Does It Feel Like Love
- Feels So Good
CD2
- Digging Up The Dirt
- Tough Love
- Hollow
- Dangerous
- Hard Day In Hell
- Wildside
- Breathe Fire
- Only The Strong Survive
- Blood And Gasoline
- I Ain’t The One
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine
FM
Steve Overland – vocals & guitar
Merv Goldsworthy – bass
Pete Jupp – drums
Jem Davis – keyboards
Jim Kirkpatrick – guitar
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