These days Beyoncé need only keep her footing on stairs (as she failed to do in a recent concert, documented on YouTube) and stick to the bevel.
So it is no surprise that Ms. Mitchell would come full circle, to the song, and to a concert documenting the cycle of romance.
Cheap Trick, Kiss, and Peter Frampton, three of the biggest draws of the decade, all established themselves with live albums, and acts as disparate as Lou Reed, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Band, and the Allman Brothers solidified their reputations with concert documents.
His earthy voice, straightforward songwriting, and fondness for acoustic arrangements worked the seam between R. & B. and folk, but he was also capable of deep funk, and his live performances could be incendiary — his Carnegie Hall concert, documented on a 1973 album, is a classic.
A farewell concert tour, documented in the 2014 film "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me," provided him poignant victory laps.
"I asked him, 'Are you a boy or a girl?' " Antony Hegarty sings in "Turning," a concert film documenting a tour of his band, Antony and the Johnsons.
The movie, released in 1972 as "The Last Days of the Fillmore," is part concert film, documenting the final week of shows at the Fillmore West in July 1971.
Though merely a drop in the ocean of available Braxtonia, this concert recording documents a ferocious band, with Muhal Richard Abrams on piano and George Lewis on trombone.
WEEKEND A film review on Friday about "Turning," a concert film documenting a tour of the band Antony and the Johnsons, referred imprecisely to people shown on a rotating stand.
During its seven-year run, Live Skull released four studio LPs, three EPs, and a concert album documenting a performance at CBGB.
