Recovery :: The Invisible Llama

*** WELCOME 2 THE INVISIBLE LLAMA *** 3,180 shows and counting *** try today's trivia!! *** folk + punk + singalongs forever ***

Home › Music › Songs › Recovery

Recovery

Times Played	1,373
First Played	#1236 2012-05-19, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Toronto, ON, Canada
Last Played	#3176 2026-09-21, The Blue Note, Columbia, MO, USA
Opened the Set	74 times
Closed the Set	6 times
Longest Gap	94 days (2021-03-18 to #2526 2021-06-20, Download Festival, Donington, UK)

Counted from every show with its own known setlist (some lists are partial), so real totals may be higher. All songs »

“Not usually the sort of place I hang out. Yes, I had a moment of clarity and was thinking, 'Why the f--k am I here?' So that's where that song came from.”
— Songfacts: Recovery (Digital Spy), 2013
“It's an autobiographical song... [but] it's not a song about getting better, but it's about the act of realizing you have a problem, and you need to sort your life out... It came to me in one of those moments of clarity in the middle…”
— Songfacts: Recovery (MTV News), 2013
“It's gone on to be my most successful record by far, and Recovery and The Way I Tend To Be remain my best known songs.”
— Louder: Every Frank Turner album in his own words, 2017
“I love her work and it fit for her come up with ideas for the cover. I'm really into tattoo culture and style generally.”
— Songfacts: Recovery
“When we played it for the first time in the US – sort of halfway through the set, trying to sandwich in an obligatory new song in-between old ones – the fucking building nearly fell down.”
— Blunt Magazine: Opening Up with Frank Turner