THE PRINCE'S TRUST BIRTHDAY PARTY
 
Artist Various artists (featuring Dire Straits)
Release date 1986
Recording Wembley Arena, London, UK, 20th June 1986
Format 12 inch LaserDisc
Label Videoarts
Cat.no. VAL-3024
Tracks side A
  1. Better be good to me
  2. Tearing us apart
  3. Your song
  4. In the air tonight
  5. Money for nothing
  6. Everytime you go away
  7. Sailing
    8.
  8. I'm still standing
  9. Everytime you go away
  10. I saw her standing there
  11. Long tall Sally
  12. Get back
Front & back cover

including Obi

                              
Additional comments Recorded at the Prince's Trust Rock Gala 10th Birthday Party. Great show with Mark Knopfler playing on several tracks other than Money for nothing. One sided 12 inch LaserDisc, NTSC format, Japanese edition including seperate info-sheet and Obi.
 
Extra information Obi An Obi strip is traditionally a strip of paper looped around the left side or folded over the top of Japanese LP albums. Obi strips are also found folded over the left side of music CD's, video games, DVD's and even on the covers of books when they are sold new. The Japanese word "Obi" refers to the traditional sash or belt worn with a kimono. The features of the obi strip include the title of the product usually in phonetic Japanese, the track listings, other information such as price, catalog number and information on related releases or artists from that same record company.
 
Laserdisc information The LaserDisc (LD) is an obsolete home video disc format, and was the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially marketed as Discovision in 1978, the technology was licensed and sold as Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, Laservision, Disco-Vision, DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision until Pioneer Electronics purchased the majority stake in the format and marketed LaserDisc in the mid to late 1980's. While LaserDisc produced a consistently higher quality image than its rivals, the VHS and Betamax systems, the laserdisc never obtained more than a niche market with videophiles in America. In Europe, it remained largely an obscure format. It was, however, much more popular in Japan and in the more affluent regions of South East Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore. Laserdisc was the prevalent rental video medium in Hong Kong during the 1990's. The technology and concepts provided with the Laserdisc would become the forerunner to Compact Discs and DVDs.