Well, no not really. The differences between the film and the album are:
1. The album has two things that were recorded on the Fragile tour, those being Long Distance Runaround/The Fish and Perpetual Change.
2. They clearly didn't use the entire set from the Rainbow show in the film.
One wonders if the performance from the Fragile tour was actually recorded with the intent of doing a live album, or if that's just another thing where the pulled something off a radio broadcast (as per Genesis Live, which is derived entirely from recordings done for King Biscuit) or a soundboard tape or what happened there. I wonder if they wanted to put the entire Close To The Edge setlist on the live album, and realized it was too much for a double LP, but not enough a triple, so they stuck the Fragile era recordings in as filler, if you will.
What I'd like to know is how they came to choose the music that does appear in the film. It seems strange to have it start with Seen All Good People, rather than Siberian Khatru. And I always thought it was weirder that the film ends with just Wurm. I'd have wished for them to use the full Starship Trooper. There again, one wonders if there isn't a story there, like maybe the cameramen had to change reels after Yours Is No Disgrace or something, so they didn't get to film the first part of Starship Trooper.
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