SECRET POLICEMAN'S THIRD BALL
 
Artist Various artists (featuring Mark Knopfler)
Release date 1995
Recording The London Palladium, London, UK, 26th - 29th March 1987
Format 2 Video CD
Label Videofilm Express
Cat.no. 914338
Tracks Video CD 1
  1. Ruby Wax
  2. Spitting image
  3. Kate Bush, David Gilmour
  4. Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
  5. Joan Armatrading
  6. Lenny Henry
  7. Nik Kershaw
  8. Jackson Browne, Paul Brady
  9. Phil Cool
  10. Duran Duran
Tracks Video CD 2
  1. John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
  2. Mark Knopfler, Chet Atkins
  3. Spitting image
  4. Bob Geldof
  5. Emo Phillips
  6. Lou Reed
  7. Ben Elton
  8. Peter Gabriel
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Additional comments PAL version of The secret's policeman's third ball Video CD. The Secret Policeman's Balls is the collective name informally used to describe the long-running series of benefit shows staged in England to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started out in the mid-1970s primarily as comedy galas featuring popular British comedic performers and later expanded to include leading musical performers. Mark Knopfler appeared in this 1987 edition playing I'll see you in my dreams and Imagine with Chet Atkins.

Video CD (abbreviated as VCD, and also known as View CD, Compact Disc digital video) is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc. VCD's are playable in dedicated VCD players, most modern DVD-Video players, personal computers, and some video game consoles. The VCD standard was created in 1985 by Sony, Philips, Matsushita, and JVC. Overall picture quality is intended to be comparable to VHS video.