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1988

7 recorded events from 1988.

The live file is unusually thin, but it contains one of Chapman's largest audience milestones: the 4 September Werner festival at Hartenholm. Family's 1973 BBC material resurfaced on The Peel Sessions, while Jim Cregan co-wrote and played on Rod Stewart's Out of Order, including the enduring “Forever Young.”

January 19881 event

Ball of Confusion
Record Release Chapman Solo circa January 1988
Ball of Confusion
7" · RCA · PB 41659
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May 19881 event

Record Release
Jim Cregan
Monday · 23 May 1988

Out of Order

Rod Stewart released Out of Order. Jim Cregan contributed guitar, backing vocals and songwriting, co-writing “Forever Young,” one of the album’s defining singles.

September 19882 events

4
Sunday
Chapman Solo
'Werner – Das Rennen 1988' — Flugplatz Hartenholm
Roger Chapman & The Shortlist
Hasenmoor, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Roger Chapman and the Shortlist appeared during the enormous three-day Werner – Das Rennen festival at Hartenholm airfield. Contemporary and regional accounts place Chapman among the top acts on Sunday, 4 September—the day of the headline motorcycle-versus-Porsche race—and estimate attendance at roughly 200,000 or more.
5
Monday
Chapman Solo
Michaelismesse
Roger Chapman & The Shortlist
Miltenberg, Bavaria, Germany

Date unknown · 19883 events

The Peel Sessions
Record Release 1988
The Peel Sessions
12" · Strange Fruit · SFPS061
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Black Forest
Record Release Chapman Solo 1988
Black Forest
7" · RCA · PB 41839
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Slap Bang in the Middle
Record Release Chapman Solo 1988
Slap Bang in the Middle
7" · RCA · PB 42135
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