John Mayall

It's a warm summer's Saturday night, July 19, 2003 in Liverpool, England and the eager audience patiently waits. In celebration of John Mayall's 70th birthday and for the benefit of UNICEF's fight against child exploitation, the Bluesbreakers (with Buddy Whittington, Joe Yuele, Tom Canning and Hank Van Sickle) kick off 70th Birthday Concert with a bang, and are later joined by guests such as Mick Taylor, Chris Barber and Eric Clapton. Mayall states, "To play again with Eric after a gap of 38 years was like time had just melted away.

It was a night when the legends played, when English Blues met Chicago and Memphis Blues, and something magical happened. One hot night in June, 1982 at New Jersey's Capitol Theater, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, featuring Mick Taylor on lead guitar and Colin Allen on drums, paid homage to and were joined by five blues immortals: Albert King, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and 83-year-old Sippie Wallace. Each of the blues greats was backed by the Bluesbreakers, resulting in some amazing musical moments.