Mr Big finish big on live album The Big Finish

Forever big in Japan

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As Mr. Big finally wind down their 35-year career with their Big Finish Tour, here comes their farewell souvenir.

The Big Finish is a live album from that tour’s show at Tokyo’s iconic Budokan (it's not the first time they have recorded there) more than a year ago.

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The hard-pop-rockers, with drummer Big Big Train's Nick D’Virgilio having replaced the late Pat Torpey, begin with Addicted To That Rush, Take Cover and Undertow, before running through their breakthrough second album, 1991’s Lean Into It, which featured early hits such as Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song), GreenTinted Sixties Mind, To Be With You and Just Take My Heart.

The covers include Humble Pie’s 30 Days In The Hole and The Who’s Baba O’Riley.

Hugh Fielder
Hugh Fielder

Hugh Fielder has been writing about music for 47 years. Actually 58 if you include the essay he wrote about the Rolling Stones in exchange for taking time off school to see them at the Ipswich Gaumont in 1964. He was news editor of Sounds magazine from 1975 to 1992 and editor of Tower Records Top magazine from 1992 to 2001. Since then he has been freelance. He has interviewed the great, the good and the not so good and written books about some of them. His favourite possession is a piece of columnar basalt he brought back from Iceland.