To help you to find albums that you like, I have organised this website around genres of music with the general guideline that albums should only belong to one or two genres.
My classic rock section consists of albums that are generally successful and don’t belong in one of the more specialised categories. Often groups will start in one category and as they become more successful, they broaden out their sound and become classic rock.
Classic Rock Live Albums From The 1970s
Alice Cooper The Alice Cooper Show
Bachman-Turner Overdrive BTO Live Japan Tour
Bachman-Turner Overdrive King Biscuit Presents
Bad Company Live in Albuquerque
Badfinger BBC Live In Concert
The Band The Last Waltz
The Beach Boys In Concert
Blood Sweat & Tears Live And Improvised 1975
Tommy Bolin Live at Ebbets Field 1974
Tommy Bolin Live In Albany NY 1976
Tommy Bolin First Time Live
Boston Feeling It In Cleveland 1976
Boston Live At The Agora Ballroom 1976
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb 1968 to 1972
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb 3 CD version 1968 to 1972 2000
David Bowie Live Santa Monica 72
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture
David Bowie David Live
David Bowie Live Nassau Coliseum ’76
Cheap Trick At Budokan
Chicago At Carnegie Hall
Chicago Live in Japan 1972
Chicago XXXIV Live in 75
Eric Clapton Crossroads 2 Live In The Seventies
Eric Clapton Just One Night
Creedeence Clearwater Revival The Concert
Creedence Clearwater Revival Live In Europe
Crosby Stills Nash & Young 4 Way Street
Crosby Stills Nash & Young CSNY 1974
Dire Straits Live At The BBC
The Doors In Concert (American Nights) 1968 & 1970
Bob Dylan Before The Flood
Bob Dylan Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue
Bob Dylan Hard Rain 1976
Bob Dylan Shelter From A Hard Rain 1976
Bob Dylan At Budokan
Electric Light Orchestra The Night The Light Went On 1974
Electric Light Orchestra Live In Winterland ’76
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac Live 1977 to 1980
Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive
Genesis Archive #2 1976-1992
Ian Gillan Band Live At The Budokan
Grateful Dead Europe 72
Grateful Dead One From The Vault 1975
Grateful Dead Live At The Cow Palace New Years Eve 1976
Grateful Dead Closing of Winterland: December 31 1978
The Guess Who Live At The Paramount
Hall & Oates Ecstasy On The Edge 1979
George Harrison Concert for Bangladesh
Hookfoot Live In Memphis USA 1972
Ian Hunter Welcome To The Club
The Jam Dig The New Breed
The Jam Live Jam
The Jam At The BBC 1977 to 1982
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live 1977 to 1982
The Jam Live At The Brighton Centre December 1979 (sold with Setting Sons Super Deluxe)
Jefferson Airplane Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Jethro Tull Bursting Out
Elton John 17-11-70
Elton John Here And There
Kansas Two For The Show 1978
The Kinks At The BBC (Double CD) 1964 to 1977
The Kinks Everybody’s in Show-Biz 1972
John Lennon Live In New York City
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus
Nils Lofgren Back It Up 1975
Nils Lofgren Live Sausalito 1975
Nils Lofgren Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1976
Nils Lofgren Live On The Test 1976 to 1979
Nils Lofgren Night After Night 1977
Nils Lofgren Hanging Tough 1977
Lone Star BBC Live In Concert
Dave Mason Certified Live
John Miles BBC Radio One Live in Concert 1977
Frankie Miller Live At Rockpalast 1976 1979 1982
Frankie Miller’s Full House BBC In Concert 3rd May 1977
Frankie Miller BBC In Concert 21st March 1979
Steve Miller Shake Your Tree 1973
Steve Miller Live 1973 – 1976
Steve Miller King Biscuit Hour Presents The Steve Miller Band In Concert 1973 1976
Mink DeVille Live At Rockpalast 1978 1981
The Moody Blues Live At The BBC 1967-1970
Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes Survival Of The Fittest Live
Paice Ashton Lord BBC Radio 1 In Concert
Paice Ashton Lord Live 1977
Tom Petty Official Live ‘Leg 1976
Tom Petty The New York Shuffle 1977
Tom Petty Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Live At My Fathers Place Roslyn New York City 1977
Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974
The Police Live
Queen Live At The Rainbow 1974
Queen A Night At The Odeon 1975
Queen Live Killers
Rainbow Denver 1979
Lou Reed Ultrasonic The New York Broadcast 1972
Lou Reed American Poet 1972
Lou Reed Live Extended Versions
Lou Reed Thinking Of Another Place 1976
Lou Reed Live Take No Prisoners 1978
The Rolling Stones LA Friday 75
The Rolling Stones From The Vault LA Forum 1975
The Rolling Stones Love You Live
Roxy Music Viva
Todd Rundgren King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert
Todd Rundgren Back to the Bars 1978
Boz Scaggs The Lost Concert 1974
Seals And Croft Sudan Village
Bob Seger Live Bullet
Bob Seger Live Boston 1977
Spirit Rock and Roll Planet 1977-1979
Bruce Springsteen Live At The Main Point, Bryn Mawr
Bruce Springsteen Hammersmith Odeon London 75
Bruce Springsteen Tower Theater Pennsylvania 1975
Bruce Springsteen Live 1975 – 85
Bruce Springsteen 1978/08/09 Cleveland Ohio – OFFICIAL
Bruce Springsteen Agora Ballroom, Cleveland
Bruce Springsteen The Fox Theatre Atlanta
Bruce Springsteen Winterland Night
Bruce Springsteen Live At The Roxy 1978
Status Quo Live At The BBC (2 CD Version) 1966 to 2005
Status Quo Live Boxset 1974 1976
Status Quo Status Quo Live
Status Quo Live In Japan aka Tokyo Quo 1976
Steely Dan Going Mobile 1974
Steely Dan Ellis Auditorium Memphis April 30th 1974
Rod Stewart & The Faces Coast To Coast
Rod Stewart Live In London
Rod Stewart Live 1976 – 1998 Tonight’s The Night
Supertramp Paris 1979
Supertramp Live In Paris 79
Supertramp Live Tracks With Breakfast In America Deluxe 1979
10cc In Concert 1975 (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
10cc Live And Let Live
10cc Live In Concert 1977
Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC Super Deluxe Box Set 1971 to 1983
Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC 1971 to 1983
Traffic Welcome To The Canteen 1971
UFO Strangers In The Night
Joe Walsh You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind 1975
West, Bruce and Laing Live ‘n’ Kickin’
The Who Young Vic Theatre London 1971
The Who The Kids Are Alright 1965 to 1978
The Who View From A Backstage Pass
The Who Greatest Hits Live
Wings Over America
Wishbone Ash BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert
Wishbone Ash Live Dates
Wishbone Ash Live In 1976
Wishbone Ash Live In Tokyo
Wishbone Ash Live Dates 2 1976 to 1980
Neil Young Live Rust
There are some fantastic albums in this list but it’s not a surprise. The 1970s was the peak time for live albums.
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The All Time Best Classic Rock Live Albums
I don’t have a readers poll on finding the best live classic rock albums from this decade but I do have a poll to find the best all time classic rock live albums.
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Live classic rock albums by decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s –
Thinking Of Another Place is a live recording by Lou Reed.
It was recorded at the Civic Theatre in Akron, Ohio on October 23rd, 1976 while he promoted the Rock and Roll Heart studio album.
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Live Take No Prisoners is a live album by Lou Reed.
It was recorded at The Bottom Line in New York during concerts on May 17–21, 1978 while Reed was promoting the Street Hassle studio album.
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King Biscuit Hour Presents The Steve Miller Band In Concert is a collection of two concert recordings:
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Live At The Agora Ballroom 1976 is a live recording by Boston.
It has been released on the Rock Melon label as a CD and as an mp3 in the UK by Lilith Records and also by Pon Music.
This is another version of the concert recording which has also gone by the name of Feeling It in Cleveland.
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Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll: Live At My Fathers Place, Roslyn, New York City is a live album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
It was recorded on November 29, 1977 for a radio broadcast and released on the Brr label with ASIN B00XZJCNW6 on July 10, 2015.
An mp3 version has appeared in the UK on the Lilith Records label.
BBC Radio One Live in Concert is a live album by John Miles.
It was recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome in London in 1977.
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Bowie At The Beeb is a two CD collection of live in the studio recordings of David Bowie made by the BBC between 1968 and 1972.
There is also a three CD limited edition version available which includes a live concert recording from June 2000.
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Fire & Skill: The Jam Live is a box-set of live recordings by The Jam.
It is a collection of six full concert recordings, one for each year they were together:
This exciting live box-set is due to be released October 30, 2015.
Previously we’ve been limited to the two live multi-year live compilation albums from the band – Dig The New Breed and Live Jam – together with the live in session and in concert Live At The BBC. Some tracks from the 1982 Wembley concerts have appeared as bonuses on re-releases of the Snap and The Gift.
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Live Sausalito 1975 is a live recording by Nils Lofgren.
It was recorded in Sausalito in California on October 31, 1975.
It was originally broadcast on KSAN and released as Back It Up! A Live Authorized Bootleg.
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Live At The BBC Super Deluxe Box Set by Thin Lizzy is a comprehensive collection of recordings made by the BBC between 1971 to 1983. It includes six CDs and a DVD.
There is also a double CD album called Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC which has the highlights from this larger box set and concentrates on their early career before The Boys Are Back In Town.
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