Live Albums Recorded In 1972

1972 was the year that:

• Israeli athletes were massacred at the Munich Olympics overshadowing Mark Spitz seven gold medals
• The Watergate scandal starts
• The Miners strike takes Britain down to a three day week to conserve electricity.
• The troubles increase in Northern Ireland including Bloody Sunday when 14 Catholic protestors were killed by the British Army

Top studio albums released in 1972 include:

• David Bowie The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust,
• Neil Young Harvest
• The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
• Stevie Wonder Talking Book
• Lou Reed Transformer
• Curtis Mayfield Superfly
• Steely Dan Can’t Buy A Thrill
• Van Morrison Saint Dominic’s Preview

It was also the year that saw the following live albums which are getting plenty of votes in my polls were recorded:

• Made In Japan by Deep Purple,
• Yessongs by Yes,
• How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin
• Europe ’72 by the Grateful Dead,
• Live Santa Monica ’72 by David Bowie.

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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1971 – 1972 – 1973