1975 was the year when two of the most successful, career changing live albums were recorded – Frampton Comes Alive and Kiss Alive – although they were not released on the unsuspecting public until 1976. The history of rock music was changed and the live album floodgates opened even more.
It also includes two live albums that I highly recommend, Bruce Springsteen at Hammersmith Odeon and the J Geils Band who wanted to Blow Your Face Out.
The live albums recorded in 1975 include:
Average White Band Person To Person
The Baker Gurvitz Army Live In Derby 75
Baker Gurvitz Army Live In London 75
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso – Seguendo Le Tracce
Black Sabbath – Past Lives
Blood Sweat & Tears Live And Improvised
Jackson Browne Live At The Main Point September 7th 1975
Jack Bruce Spirit Live at the BBC
Jack Bruce Live At Manchester Free Trade Hall
Camel A Live Record
Chicago XXXIV Live in 75
City Boy BBC In Concert
Commander Cody Live from Armadillo World HQ 1973 & Capitol Theatre 1975
Miles Davis Agharta
Deep Purple – Made In Europe
Deep Purple – Live In Paris
Deep Purple – This Time Around
Dr Feelgood – Stupidity
Dr Feelgood Live At The BBC
Bob Dylan Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue
Earth Wind & Fire – Alive In 75
Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
Fripp & Eno Live in Paris
Genesis Archive 1967–75
Grand Funk Railroad Caught In The Act
Grateful Dead One From The Vault
J Geils Band – Blow Your Face Out
Emmylou Harris Cowboy Angels
Keith Jarrett The Koln Concert
Waylon Jennings Turn Back the Years Live in Dallas 75
Jethro Tull Paris 1975 Minstrel In The Gallery 40th Anniversary
Albert King Blues From The Road
Kiss – Kiss Alive
Paul Kossoff Live At Croydon Fairfield Halls 15/6/75
Nils Lofgren – Back It Up
Nils Lofgren Live Sausalito
Lynyrd Skynyrd Live Cardiff 1975
Magma Live Hhai
Bob Marley – Bob Marley & the Wailers Live
John Martyn Live At Leeds & More
John Martyn Live At Leeds Deluxe
John Martyn On Air
Melanie On Air BBC Live in Concert
The Meters Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary
New York Dolls Red Patent Leather Live In NYC
Graham Parker The Bootleg Box
PFM Paper Charms
The Pretty Things Live At The BBC
Professor Longhair Live on the Queen Mary
Queen Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1975 (video)
Queen A Night At The Odeon
Renaissance Live At Carnegie Hall
The Rolling Stones – LA Friday 75
The Rolling Stones From The Vault LA Forum
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Live at Hammersmith Odeon ’75
Otis Rush So Many Roads Live in Concert
Doug Sahm Live from Austin TX
Santana Live At The Rynearson Stadium
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In Concert
Patti Smith Dreaming Of The Prophet
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live
The Sons Of Champlin Live San Rafael
Bruce Springsteen – Live At The Main Point
Bruce Springsteen – Hammersmith Odeon London 75
Bruce Springsteen Tower Theater Pennsylvania
Rod Stewart – Live In London
Supertramp Is Everybody Listening?
Supertramp Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1975 (with Crime Of The Century Deluxe Edition)
Tangerine Dream Ricochet
Thin Lizzy – UK Tour 75
Irma Thomas Live 1975 aka Hip Shakin’ Mama
Richard & Linda Thompson – In Concert November 1975
Big Mama Thornton Jail
Trapeze Live At The Boat Club
Robin Trower At The BBC
UFO The Official Bootleg Box Set
UFO On Air At The BBC
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner
Joe Walsh You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind
Edgar & Johnny Winter Together
Johnny Winter Captured Live!
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart Bongo Fury
ZZ Top Fandango
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Live At The Main Point September 7th 1975 is a live album by Jackson Browne.
This was originally recorded for a radio broadcast on WMMR-FM.
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Live At Leeds & More is a live album by John Martyn which uplates anot earlier release called Live At Leeds which has since been updated again.
Disc one includes tracks recorded live in 1975 at Leeds University. Disc Two comprises some of the best of Martyn’s live recordings from the late ’70s onwards.
The original Live At Leeds album was recorded and released in 1975 with six songs:
Inside Out (or Outside In)
Solid Air
Make No Mistake
Bless The Weather
The Man In The Station
I’d Rather Be The Devil
This version was released on vinyl and then as a CD in 1992.
In 2008 Live At Leeds & More was released with the original album and samples of his live work from the 1980s and 1990s when his sound had been smoothed out.
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Live At Croydon Fairfield Halls 15/6/75 is a live album by Paul Kossoff, the former guitarist from Free.
It was recorded in Surrey in England in 1975.
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A Night At The Odeon 1975 by Queen is one of the most wanted live albums and DVD releases.
In 1975, Queen raced to #1 in the UK singles chart with Bohemian Rhapsody while they were on their A Night At The Opera tour. The final show was at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and the show was broadcast as the Old Grey Whistle Test Christmas Eve special.
It has been frequently bootlegged but the concert is finally released as a live album and DVD on November 20th 2015, nearly 40 years after the original gig.
So Many Roads: Live in Concert is a live album by Otis Rush.
It was recorded in Tokyo in Japan at concerts on the 20th and 29th July, 1975.
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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 from Austin TX is a live album by Doug Sahm.
It was recorded on November 14, 1975.
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After the Flood – Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC 1968-1977 is a collection of mainly live in the studio recordings by challenging prog rock band, Van Der Graaf Generator.
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XXXIV Live in 75 is a live album by Chicago.
It was recorded at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland between June 24 and 26, 1975.
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Live At Leeds Deluxe Edition is a live album by John Martyn.
It was recorded at Leeds University on 13 February 1975.
Live At Leeds album was originally released as a six song vinyl album in 1975 and was then issued as a CD in 1992 with the same songs. In 2008, Live At Leeds & More was released which added a selection of live recordings from the 1980s and 1990s.
In 2010, the album was released in deluxe form to celebrate the 35th anniversary. This means that the entire concert and the rehearsal from the afternoon are now available to hear.
Fans of the original Live At Leeds release were surprised to hear that some of the songs they knew so well sounded different. It turns out that some of them didn’t come from the Leeds gig but other concerts in 1975.
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