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Shining like a beacon in the depressing pre-Christmas landscape of mouldy old video collections and dodgy concert films is Janeโ€™s Addictionโ€™s Three Days SANCTUARYRating Star

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Filmed by Carter Smith and Kevin Ford on the bandโ€™s 1997 Relapse tour, itโ€™s a fully-realised piece of rock cinema that dramatically transcends the limitations of your average tour documentary. You canโ€™t make any such grandiose claims about Hold On To Your Structure EMIRating Star . But as it features Ian Dury And The Blockheads playing at Hammersmith Odeon in 1985, you donโ€™t really need much else. Of similar vintage is Frank Zappaโ€™s Does Humor Belong In Music EMIRating Star , a suitably zany 1984 live recording that includes such off-the-wall classics as โ€œHeโ€™s So Gayโ€. Peter Gabrielโ€™s โ€œSledgehammerโ€ remains the most-played video on MTV to this day, and heโ€™s still pushing at the boundaries of sound and vision. Growing Up Live WARNER MUSIC VISIONRating Star was filmed on tour earlier this year and finds him suspended upside down, trapped inside a giant sphere and indulging in various other such circus-like exploits. No such fun on Genesisโ€™ Live At Wembley Stadium VIRGINRating Star , a thoroughly gormless set from 1987, long after Gabriel had abandoned the group to the AOR tendencies of Phil Collins. Eyes Wide Open SANCTUARYRating Star is a double offering from prog-rock survivors King Crimson featuring two concert performances from 2000 and 2003. As both feature almost identical set lists, all but the most committed may feel that one disc would have sufficed. Simon & Garfunkelโ€™s Concert In Central Park COLUMBIARating Star was recorded on the occasion of their less-than-united 1981 reunion, and includes a liberal selection of Simonโ€™s solo hits, while Art is left to perform โ€œBridge Over Troubled Waterโ€ solo. But the best in-concert DVD of the month may well be The Allman Brothersโ€™ Live At The Beacon Theater SANCTUARYRating Star . Recorded in New York earlier this year, the Brothers are one of those bands whose records are a pale shadow of their former glories. But, like The Rolling Stones, theyโ€™re still a peerless live act, despite the fact that only Greg Allman and a pair of drummers remain from the original line-up.