I will always think of 1977 as the year of punk rock. The first singles and albums by the Sex Pistols, The Clash and the The Damned were released and from the USA, Talking Heads and Television appeared to help turn punk into new wave.
Live albums were still thriving thanks to the amazing popularity of Frampton Comes Alive which was the big hit released (not recorded) in the year.
Classic live albums are led by Live & Dangerous by Thin Lizzy and there are plenty of much less well known albums to enjoy.
Live albums recorded in 1977 include:
AC/DC Live From The Atlantic Studios
AC/DC Cleveland Rocks
AC/DC San Francisco ’77
Albion Band Vintage Albion Band On The Road
The Albion Band Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival
Alice Cooper – The Alice Cooper Show
Average White Band Live At Montreux
Barclay James Harvest – Live Tapes
Be Bop Deluxe – Live In The Air Age
Elvin Bishop Raisin’ Hell
Blondie The Old Waldorf San Francisco
Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
Jack Bruce Spirit Live at the BBC
Burning Spear Burning Spear Live
Buzzcocks Live at the Roxy Club April 77
Camel – A Live Record
Alex Chilton Ocean Club 77
Commodores – Commodores Live
Sandy Denny Gold Dust Live At The Royalty
Ian Dury On The Stiff’s Live Stiffs
801 Live At Hull
Elvis Costello – Live At The Nashville Rooms
Dr Feelgood Down at the BBC In Concert
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Works Live
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2
Foghat – Live
Generation X Radio 1 Sessions
Genesis – Seconds Out
Ian Gillan Band Live At The Budokan
Grateful Dead To Terrapin Hartford ’77
Grateful Dead Winterland June 1977 The Complete Recordings
Hall & Oates Livetime
Harmonium En Tournee
Steve Hillage Live At The Rainbow
Steve Hillage Live Herald
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live
The Kinks At The BBC (Box Set)
Kiss – Kiss Alive 2
Lindisfarne Magic In The Air
Locanda Delle Fate Locanda Delle Fate Live
Nils Lofgren – Night After Night
Nils Lofgren Hanging Tough
Lone Star – BBC Live In Concert
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Live
The Marshall Tucker Band – Stompin’ Room Only
The Marshall Tucker Band Carolina Dreams Tour 77
John Martyn BBC Live In Concert
John Miles BBC Radio One Live in Concert
Frankie Miller’s Full House BBC In Concert 3rd May 1977
Muddy Waters Breakin It Up Breakin It Down 1977 with Johnny Winter and James Cotton
Ted Nugent – Double Live Gonzo
Ohio Players – Jam
The Only Ones Darkness And Light The Complete BBC Recordings
Outlaws – Bring It Back Alive
Paice Ashton Lord Paice Ashton Lord Live
Paice Ashton Lord BBC Radio 1 In Concert
Graham Parker BBC Live In Concert
Graham Parker Live On The Test
Graham Parker Official Bootleg Box
Graham Parker Not If It Pleases Me
Parliament – Live P-Funk Earth Tour
Parliament Funkadelic Live 1976-1993
Dolly Parton Live At The Bottom Line
Tom Petty Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Live At My Fathers Place Roslyn New York City
Tom Petty The New York Shuffle
Planet Gong Floating Anarchy Live
Poco The Last Roundup
Iggy Pop TV Eye
Racing Cars In Concert
Radio Stars Something for the Weekend
Rainbow Live In Munich
The Ramones – It’s Alive
Lou Reed Transmission Impossible
Renaissance The BBC Sessions
Jess Roden – Live At The BBC
The Rolling Stones – Love You Live
Otis Rush Live in Europe
The Saints – Live At The Hope & Anchor
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Live At The Bottom Line Aug 20, 1977
Bob Seger Live Boston
The Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks Live
Slade – Alive Volume 2
Spirit Rock and Roll Planet
Stephen Stills Live in Concert
The Stranglers Live at the Hope and Anchor
The Stranglers BBC In Concert 23rd April 1977
Streetwalkers Streetwalkers Live
Talking Heads – The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Tangerine Dream Encore
10cc – Live And Let Live
10cc – Live In Concert
Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy Still Dangerous
The Tubes What Do You Want From Live
Tom Waits A Small Affair In Ohio
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC
Various Artists Live At The Roxy
Grover Washington Jr – Live At The Bijou
Wire Live At The Roxy London April 1st & 2nd 1977
X-Ray Spex Live At The Roxy
Yes – Yesshows
Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti
Frank Zappa Baby Snakes
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Baby Snakes is a soundtrack album from Frank Zappa’s film of the same name.
It was recorded at The Palladium in New York City between October 28 and 31 in 1977.
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Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival is a live album by The Albion Band.
Tracks 1 to 6 were recorded in 1977 and tracks 7 to 11 were recorded in 1987.
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Live in Europe is a live album by Otis Rush.
It sounds like an album compiled from various concerts in Europe but it’s actually a single performance in Nancy, France in 1977.
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BBC Live In Concert is a compilation of live recordings by John Martyn from concerts in London in 1971,1977 and 1981.
Despite the similar titles, this is not the same album or source concerts as BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert which mainly features a concert from 1986.
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Rock and Roll Planet 1977-1979 is a collection of tracks recorded live in concert and in the studio between 1977 and 1979.
The live tracks are on the first two CDs and were recorded in Los Angeles, New York City and Texas.
BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a live album by The Albion Band.
This pulls together live recordings from 1977 and 1982.
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Hanging Tough is a live album by Nils Lofgren.
This was recorded at the Bottom Line club in New York in the winter of 1977 while Lofgren was promoting the I Came To Dance studio album. This is the same tour that provided the official but hard to find live album Night After Night.
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Darkness And Light: The Complete BBC Recordings is a compilation of live recordings of The Only Ones made by the BBC between 1977 and 1980. These include sessions for John Peel, an In Concert recording and songs from the Old Grey Whistle Test.
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Ocean Club 77 is a live album by former Big Star leader, Alex Chilton.
It was recorded in New York City in 1977.
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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.
