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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The commonly available version of David Bowie At The Beeb is a two CD version but there is a limited edition with 3 CDs with a concert from 2000.
This live performance was recorded at BBC Radio Theatre, London on June 27, 2000.
The standard version (CDs 1 & 2) and live in the studio sessions recorded between 1968 and 1972.
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Live Way Back To The Bone is a live album by Trapeze including Glenn Hughes.
It was recorded in Dallas in 1972.
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Ultrasonic Studios 1972 is a live album by Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George with John Hammond.
It was recorded in New York and broadcast on WLIR FM.
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Live In Memphis, USA 1972 is a live album by Hookfoot.
It was recorded at the Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in August 1972 and broadcast on the radio.
If you’re not familiar with the band, they were the backing band for Elton John and appeared on most of his early albums for DJM.
The band consisted of:
Caleb Quaye – guitars, piano and vocals
Ian Duck – vocals, guitars and harmonica
David Glover – bass
Roger Pope – drums
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Concierto en Vivo collects together live recordings by Jethro Tull from the early 1970s.
As you can see, the front cover says this is from the Essen 1972 and Chicago 1971 concerts but the download information on Amazon gives the dates as:
It’s made available by the 2015 Imex Media label.
I’ve wanted to hear early 1970s live recordings of Jethro Tull for many years and I’ve been disappointed with the 40th anniversary re-releases of the classic albums and the lack of live concert recordings. Minstrel In The Gallery from 1975 was a start to putting that right.
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Discovering The Blues is a live album by Robben Ford.
It was recorded at the Ash Grove in Hollywood and the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach (both California) in 1972.
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City Song BBC Sessions 1971 – 1972 is a collection of live recordings of Lindisfarne made by the BBC.
These included in studio sessions for Bob Harris and John Peel and three songs from the Royal Festival Hall on 31 May1972.
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American Poet is a live album by Lou Reed.
It was recorded at the Hempstead Theatre in New York on Boxing Day, 26 December 1972.
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Live In The 70’s is a compilation of live recordings made by Albert King in the 1970s.
It brings together songs from concerts in New York (1971), Los Angeles (1972), St Charles (1974) and Chicago (1978).
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Under The Falling Sky is a live album by Bonnie Raitt.
It includes two live performances:
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