John Farnham: "Jack's Back Tour" Footage (1987)

In 1987, following a successful run of shows earlier in the year to promote his 1986 album "Whispering Jack", (and due to popular demand) John Farnham embarked on the album's second tour - The "Jack's Back Tour". Yes... a whole second tour for this remarkable once in a lifetime album!
What I present to you here is the only known footage of the tour - a small selection of footage edited together from a 1987 TV Special titled "Jack's Back - Access All Areas". A number of fans have already put this documentary online in its entirety, but I decided to pull out the concert footage and put it together into a short 20 minute highlights package.
The footage includes:
0:00 Reasons
5:05 Pressure Down
7:57 Going, Going, Gone (small snippet)
8:23 A Touch of Paradise
10:23 Help
14:25 You're the Voice
18:54 Amazing Grace
Please note that none of the songs play in their entirety due to the documentary continuously cutting away to interviews and behind-the-scenes footage - which I've completely removed. This is so we can all get a glimpse at what this concert could have been had it been properly released or televised.

[@peterlothian973]

Thank you for the music footage Adam. As the trombone player (The Brasstards) in John's band during his epic Whispering Jack comeback tours, I can assure everybody that the Jack's Back tours really 'rocked' musically - more than WJ in my experience. To answer questions about JB live concerts, I recorded the entire Jack's Back Sydney concert FOH desk mix on cassette tapes, which I'll look at digitising at some point - after all these years in storage....

[@deanneb5039]

Wow! That would be awesome, Peter!

[@CaptainsChannel58]

God I'd love to see this whole concert !!

[@adamstolfo]

Who wouldn’t!? It was quite long too from what I understand. I just wish someone could track down the setlist. It’s a big mystery that someone must know!

[@WildaMatilda]

Thankyou for making it so easy for others to discover/enjoy John’s music. 💝

[@EileenSpeakman]

From me also. Courtesy of those who post on youtube I've been overdosing on John Farnham everything since discovering him last year - concerts, interviews, documentaries, his early beginnings as a teenager pop idol, tv sit com, musical theatre... Best addiction ever! 20 1.24. UK. E❤

[@BrandonBeard]

Once again Adam very impressive work. It's easy to get someone to transfer a VHS file to disk and from the disk upload the whole thing but to edit in such a professional way is another.

[@adamstolfo]

Cheers again Brandon. Yeah, I've been spending a lot of the lockdowns familiarizing myself with editing software. Both visual and audio related programs. These JF videos are great little projects to experiment with. 🙂

[@brenreeves9496]

Thanks Adam. I was at the Melbourne concert. It was awesome

[@adamstolfo]

That's awesome Brenreeves. My first concert was "Chain Reaction" in 1990 when I was 10!

[@Schanckas]

At the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre or the Glass house. It was great

[@andysalter7192]

Mine was this tour in Tasmania Launceston Silverdome, I was 11

[@BryanParnell]

Wow, the version of ‘Help’ on this is up there with the M.S.O version! I haven’t seen any other singer be able to knock it out of the park, time after time in every performance they do. He’s a freak.

[@bettinahansen7630]

thank you for uploading this! to see the whole show would be awesome👌john's brill😍

[@adamstolfo]

We all want to see the whole show!! It was obviously filmed in full!

[@bettinahansen7630]

@@adamstolfo 👌

[@possumsnest]

Thankyou for putting these great videos together. Just fantastic. The JF rabbit hole just gets bigger...so easy to lose many hours watching him live. Consistently perfect every performance.

[@adamstolfo]

My pleasure Possum... and for the record, I agree with you wholeheartedly!

[@Schanckas]

Went to this at the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre. Which is opposite to Rod Laver arena.

[@CaptainsChannel58]

Amazing this has surfaced

[@shirleynicolson1087]

Every time I watch this man my ovaries go into overdrive 😆 🤣 😂

[@SuperJollychef]

please john come back to the UK

[@grahamcox6929]

Hi Adam. Thanks for posting the videos on KZbin. Can I ask where you got all of the footage from? Some of it is really rare, and the tribute to Glenn very personal. I was wondering if you have a personal connection to John's inner circle. Also, have you recently removed some of the Hey Hey It's Saturday footage you posted?

[@okeeffemj]

Clearly the whole thing would have been recorded. Another one we need Glen to release to a streaming service.

[@adamstolfo]

Totally! In fact, I’d bet my life on it. Streaming service might be a tall order, but I wouldn’t think paid digital downloads would be too much of an ask. Do we know for sure that Glenn is totally the one to make these kind of decisions?

[@okeeffemj]

@@adamstolfo Not sure how all the rights thing would work. Yes a digital download would be ideal!

[@BrandonBeard]

I agree but not to sure how that would market as the Whispering Jack live VHS and DVD went gang busters and the Jack's Back Summer tour was a follow on from that.

[@adamstolfo]

@@BrandonBeard I don't think it can be "marketed" in any shape or form if we're being honest Brandon and Michael. It's just whether we can figure out a way for all this concert footage to "see the light of day" in some capacity. Forget about physical media - that won't happen in 2022, so we would have to look into whether the footage still exists, who owns it, and what it would take for it to come out in some digital capacity. Glenn (or whoever) might not even know there is a demand. Who knows!?

[@BrandonBeard]

@@adamstolfo Wouldn't be great to get all his live Hey hey its Saturday performances together in one video. It's actually possible as they're all here in on KZbin. Well 90s percent of them anyway. Make a great video John Farnham the entire Hey, hey it's Saturday live performances collection. That would put a lot smiles on faces.