News of the World Tour The Houston concert is considered one of their best bootlegs. In the book "The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience", novelist Tracy Chevalier recalls attending one of this tour's concerts at the age of 15: Robert Hilburn of the "Los Angeles Times" called this concert tour the band's "most spectacularly staged and finely honed show yet". "We arrived in Las Vegas on Monday," recalled "Old Grey Whistle Test" presenter Bob Harris, who was travelling with the band for a filmed piece, "and the band weren't playing until Thursday, so we had three days to
The Old Grey Whistle Test listeners to guess. In 2006, the BBC released three DVDs. The first concentrated on the early and mid-1970s. The second DVD completed the timeline, as it dealt with the late 1970s and 1980s. The third DVD, however, covered the entire history. The DVDs also featured spoken intros by the presenters introducing the songs. Billy Joel included his 1978 performance on the show as part of "The Stranger 30th Anniversary Edition DVD". Out of an original total of 445 episodes, 16 episodes are missing, a further 54 are incomplete and one exists on a format inferior to the original. From 2018,