Film was painstakingly restored over six months
Eagle Rock Entertainment is set to release INXS: Live Baby Live at Wembley Stadium on Blu-ray on June 26th. The historic concert event was painstakingly restored over a six month period from the original 35 mm print to create a new widescreen 4K Ultra HD version. The film also includes a previously unseen “lost” track — “Lately” from the X album — and a brand new Dolby Atmos audio mix by the band’s Executive Music Producer Giles Martin and Sam Okell, created at Abbey Road Studios.
A 4K UHD edition has not been announced as of press time.
On Saturday July 13, 1991 INXS, one of the world’s most revered and iconic bands, delivered the gig of their lives at London’s Wembley Stadium to 74,000 ecstatic fans. After a decade and a half on the road the band were at the peak of their live powers and the performance filmed that day shows they were not only a world-class stadium band but the only band that ever had the guts to walk onto the stage at Wembley Stadium in front of 74,000 people and jam their own intro! The band played over 2000 shows before singer Michael Hutchence’s untimely passing 20 years ago, but Wembley was THE ONE, not only were the band on fire, but the audience was too, both band and crowd knew this would be the performance of a lifetime. What’s more there were no screens, no ramps, no backing singers, no props and cell phones just six guys playing as though their lives depended on it. INXS delivered hit after hit to an ecstatic audience for nearly two hours.
Live Baby Live is considered one of the best live shows ever put to film, as the recording nearly didn’t happen when 17 cameras and a helicopter were required to shoot this special moment in time.
The newly upgraded concert first debuted in theaters worldwide in November 2019. A special edition of the soundtrack — Live Baby Live Wembley 1991 — was issued on November 22, 2019 on 2 CD and 3 LP sets.
