Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 is a live album by the English rock bandCream, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005 during the band's reunion tour. As the title implies, the recording includes songs from their four reunion shows on 2, 3, 5, and 6 May 2005.
Within five months of these performances, this collection of recordings was released as separate double Compact Disc and double DVD sets. Two months later in December, a triple LP set was also released, containing tracks identical to the CD set.HD DVD and Blu-ray versions also exist.
The album reached #59 on the Billboard 200 album chart on 22 October 2005.
Critica
In his review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that the shows at the Royal Albert Hall did not live up to Cream's concerts in the past, including their performance for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is not necessarily all because of their age, although some of it was, but because they have not been together in a while. J. D. Considine spoke much more highly of the shows because Cream was not as fixated with psychedelic jam sessions and sounded better than before.
Sales
Shortly after the DVD of Cream's performance at the Royal Albert Hall was released in 2005, the Australian Recording Industry Association certified the release platinum with shipments of over 15,000 units. On 11 July 2006 the Recording Industry Association of America certified the DVD box-set 5 times multi-platinum with sales of over 500,000 units(DVD's only have to sell 100,000 for platimun certification, not 1 million like Cd's... On 1 December 2005 the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers certified the DVD platinum.
