Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We can all but dream of having the inscription and moniker “Legendary” attached to our name, to be remembered for bringing joy, a wealth of art perhaps, to have done something so epic that it will live past our own lifespan and be a reflection, a calling card for future generations to live up to. Rarely does that identifying mark truly expand upon the brilliant and dazzling first sense of illumination, but when it does, then you cannot but help feel awe when in the presence of such finery in the suit of a fellow human being.

Don McLean at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, May 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Living legends, the serious list of those steeped in folklore and certain amounts of musical mythology, gets smaller and reduces in size every year. It is the way of things that for the generations past the heroes they grew up with, that they hummed alongside and perhaps even learned to play in some honorary fashion some of the gentle chords that turned them on to life, will all pass into the great gig in the sky and leave a huge musician sized hole in their wake.