1972 was the year that:
Top studio albums released in 1972 include:
It was also the year that saw the following live albums which are getting plenty of votes in my polls were recorded:
Live albums recorded in 1972 include:
Allman Brothers Band Macon City Auditorium
Argent BBC Radio 1 In Concert
Badfinger – BBC Live In Concert
Badger One Live Badger
Barclay James Harvest BBC In Concert
Black Oak Arkansas Raunch ‘N’ Roll Live
David Bowie – Live Santa Monica 72
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb 3 CD version
Brinsley Schwarz Greasy Truckers Party
Cactus Ot N Sweaty
Camel On The Road 1972
Captain Beefheart Live At Bickershaw Festival
Chicago Live in Japan
Roy Clark Timeless The Classic Concert Performances
Joe Cocker Live In LA
Joe Cocker Space Captain
Leonard Cohen Live Songs
Deep Purple Made In Japan
Neil Diamond Hot August Night
Emerson Lake & Palmer Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival ’72
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 1
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2
Robben Ford Discovering The Blues
Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace
Rory Gallagher – Live In Europe
J Geils Band – Full House
Gnidrolog – Live 1972
Grateful Dead – Europe 72
Grateful Dead Europe 72 Vol. 2
Grateful Dead Steppin Out With The Grateful Dead England 72
Grateful Dead Hundred Year Hall
The Groundhogs BBC Live In Concert
The Guess Who Live At The Paramount
Hawkwind – Space Ritual Alive
Hawkwind Greasy Truckers Party
Hawkwind BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
Hawkwind At The BBC
Isaac Hayes at Wattstax
John Lee Hooker Live At The Café Au Go-Go
Hookfoot Live In Memphis USA
If Europe 72
Jackson 5 Live At The Forum
Jefferson Airplane Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Jethro Tull Concierto en Vivo
Albert King Live at the Fabulous Forum
Albert King Live In The 70’s
King Crimson Ladies of the Road
King Crimson Earthbound
The Kinks Everybody’s in Show-Biz
The Kinks At The BBC (Box Set)
Kris Kristofferson Live at the Philharmonic
Led Zeppelin – How The West Was Won
Lindisfarne City Song BBC Sessions
Little Milton Grits Ain’t Groceries
Loggins & Messina On Stage
Man Greasy Truckers Party
Man Live At The Padget Rooms Penarth
John Mayall Ten Years Are Gone
Mountain Live The Road Goes Ever On
New Riders Of The Purple Sage Live at Veneta OR 8/27/1972
Bonnie Raitt Under The Falling Sky
Bonnie Raitt The Lost Broadcast Philadelphia
Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George Ultrasonic Studios
Lou Reed American Poet
Lou Reed Live Performances
Lou Reed Ultrasonic The New York Broadcast
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 1957-1972
Leon Russell Leon Live
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Live!
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live At The BBC
Slade Live At The BBC
Johnnie Taylor Live at the Summit Club
Trapeze Live Way Back To The Bone
Wet Willie Drippin Wet
Wishbone Ash – BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert
Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall
Yes – Yessongs
Yes Progeny Seven Shows From Seventy-Two
Yes Progeny Highlights From Seventy-Two
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Live & Cookin’ At Alice’s Revisited is a live album by Howlin’ Wolf.
It was recorded at Alice’s Revisited in Chicago on January 26, 1972.
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Hot August Night is a live double album by Neil Diamond, recorded at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in August 1972.
It has been released in a number of different versions with extra songs being added each time.
War Live is a live album by funk group War. It was recorded at the High Chapparral club in Chicago in 1972.
Europe 72 is a live album by Grateful Dead which captures the group in concert in Western Europe in April and May 1972.
A second volume of recordings Europe 72 volume 2 has been released in 2011. There is even a release of the complete Europe ’72 shows – all 22 concerts on 73 CDs.
Grateful Dead had released two of their most popular and critically acclaimed studio albums – Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty – which go back to the roots of American music.
This may be too “country” for music lovers primarily looking for guitar improvisations. Most of us are going to find this much more approachable and easier to listen to because of the strong song structures.
Raunch ‘n’ Roll Live is a live album by Southern rock group Black Oak Arkansas.
It pulled songs from two concerts recorded at the Paramount Theatre, Portland on December 1st 1972 and at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on the following day.
A bit like Uriah Heep, Black Oak Arkansas have been a band that music critics have loved to hate but ans think differently.
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Space Ritual Alive is the first live album released by heavy space rock group Hawkwind. It was recorded in Liverpool and London in December 1972 on the tour to promote the Doremi Fasol Latido album.
Hawkwind had a hit single earlier in the year with Silver Machine. It’s not on this live album but I thought I’d post a video of the group performing it in 1972 to help get you in the mood.
Let’s take a step back to rare early seventies progressive rock with Gnidrolog Live 1972 which was recorded in my home town of Birmingham, UK.
The group is best known for the Lady Lake album which is a missing gem of British progressive rock. Think of them as a cross between Jethro Tull and Van Der Graaf Generator but with humour.
BBC Live In Concert is a live album by power pop group Badfinger featuring concerts in June 1972 and August 1973.
BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert is a live album by Wishbone Ash catching the band on the Argus tour in London on 25th May 1972 (before Live Dates).
There are so many live albums by later versions of Wishbone Ash, that it’s great to find another by the original band.
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Live Santa Monica 72 is a live album by David Bowie recorded on 20 October 1972 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
This captures David Bowie promoting his Ziggy Stardust album.
