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Originally Posted by Thinny
While I can see why Ballad Of Youth would be hard to pull off live (even on the Stranger tour he did as a a duet with Crystal Taliefero, his backing singer), and stuff like Father Time too would be tough, but I agree with Jovifan that One Light doesn't seem a particularly challenging a song for Richie to take on. I wouldn't say it was anymore challenging than Stranger really, and he does that at almost every show...
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Disagree.
I'm no musician, but One Light Burning seems substantially more vocally-demanding than Stranger. That chorus have some really high notes, which Stranger doesn't have except for the very last "midnight raid is coming down", which Richie haven't sung live like on the record in forever.
That being said I still don't buy it as a reason for not playing it live, because you can always downtune as much as you want until you can reach the notes, like Bon Jovi did with In These Arms to the key they've been playing that song since 2001. It just takes more effort and the final result may not sound as great, but it's totally doable and Richie has been willing to go that route with some other songs (Seven Years Gone, Rosie) recently.