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Live Albums Recorded In 1979

Live albums recorded in 1979 include:

Abba Abba Live
Abba Live At Wembley Arena
AC/DC Let There Be Rock The Movie – Live in Paris
Luther Allison Live in Paris
The Amazing Rhythm Aces Fullhouse Aces High
Joan Armatrading Steppin Out
Asleep At The Wheel Served Live
Atlanta Rhythm Section Are You Ready?
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Capolinea
Blondie At The BBC
Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Buzzcocks Lest We Forget
Buzzcocks Entertaining Friends
Roger Chapman Live In Hamburg
Cheap Trick Auld Lang Syne New Year’s Eve 1979
Eric Clapton – Just One Night
Climax Blues Band Live, Rare & Raw
The Enid Live At Hammersmith Vol 1
Bill Evans Homecoming
Bill Evans Paris Concert Edition One
Bill Evans Paris Concert Edition Two
Rory Gallagher – Stage Struck
Rory Gallagher Notes From San Francisco
Rory Gallagher Live At Montreux
Gang Of Four The Peel Sessions Album
Buddy Guy Live At The Checkerboard Lounge
Hall & Oates Ecstasy On The Edge
Steve Hillage BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
Ian Hunter Welcome To The Club
Millie Jackson Live And Uncensored
The Jam Live At The Brighton Centre December 1979 (sold with Setting Sons Super Deluxe)
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live
The Jam At The BBC
Joy Division Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
Judas Priest – Unleashed In The East
BB King Now Appearing At Ole Miss
Frankie Miller BBC In Concert 21st March 1979
Frankie Miller Live At Rockpalast
Misty In Roots Misty Over Sweden
Misty in Roots Live At The Counter Eurovision 79
Joni Mitchell Shadows And Light
Molly Hatchet Live At The Agora Ballroom
Van Morrison Live at the Capitol Theatre Passaic NJ
Motorhead BBC Live & In-Session
UK Night After Night
Ted Nugent – Live at Hammersmith ’79
Mike Oldfield Exposed
The Only Ones Darkness And Light The Complete BBC Recordings
The Only Ones The Big Sleep
Graham Parker Live Sparks
Graham Parker – Live In San Francisco 1979
Graham Parker Live In America
Graham Parker Official Bootleg Box
The Police Live In Boston
Teddy Pendergrass Live Coast To Coast
Queen – Live Killers
Rainbow Denver 1979
Bonnie Raitt Same Old Song
Roxy Music – Concerto
Todd Rundgren & Utopia Ksan 95fm Live
The Ruts Get Out Of It Live
The Selecter & The Specials BBC Radio 1 in Concert
The Specials BBC In Concert 15th December 1979
The Specials Live at the Moonlight Club
Spirit Rock and Roll Planet
Rod Stewart Live 1976 – 1998 Tonight’s The Night
Supertramp Paris
Supertramp Live In Paris 79
Supertramp Live Tracks With Breakfast In America Deluxe
Sylvester Living Proof
Taj Mahal Live & Direct
Talking Heads – The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Talking Heads The Boston Tea Party
Talking Heads Performance
Pat Travers Band Live Go For What You Know
UFO – Live In Texas 1979
Uriah Heep Live in Europe
Village People Live And Sleazy
Wishbone Ash Live In Tokyo
Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 1

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1978 – 1979 – 1980

Climax Blues Band Live, Rare & Raw 1973 – 1979

Live, Rare and Raw is a collection of live recordings by the Climax Blues Band in the 1970s. It was released in October or November 2014 depending on the format and region.

What we have are:

  • Marquee Club London 1973
  • Live in New Jersey 1974
  • Live in Guildford 1976
  • Live from Miami 1979

These are all on separate CDs. When I get it on mp3 I’m planning to store it as four separate concerts.

I’m not exactly sure of the band make-up at these different concerts because CBB made frequent changes. However the main band consisted of:

Colin Cooper – vocals, saxophone, harmonica, guitar
Pete Haycock – vocals, guitar, bass
Derek Holt – bass, guitar, keyboards
John Cuffley – drums

Peter Filleul played keyboard for much of the time but he left in 1973 and returned in 1975. In between Richard Jones, one of the original band members returned to play keyboards and bass. If the recording at the Marquee was very early in 1973, George Newsome may have been the drummer.

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Ian Hunter Welcome To The Club 1979

Welcome To The Club is the first live album recorded by Ian Hunter after he left Mott The Hoople. It was recorded over seven nights at The Roxy, West Hollywood in November 1979 on the tour to promote the studio album You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic.

His band included former David Bowie and Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ronson and his fluid guitar solos are one of the big reasons for the popularity of this album.

It’s a much more subtle album that Mott the Hoople Live, with the songs give room to develop. It also includes four new songs recorded live in the studio at the end.

The CD release has seen four new live recordings added to the album – One of the Boys, The Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll, When the Daylight Comes and a Medley of Once Bitten Twice Shy/Bastard/Cleveland Rocks.

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Abba Live At Wembley Arena 1979

Live At Wembley Arena is the second live album by Abba with the full concert from 10 November 1979 in London finally released. This was the sixth night the group had played at the venue on the tour to promote the Voulez-Vous album.

At this stage, Abba were the biggest pop band in the world excluding the United States of America. For some reason, they remained resistant to the charms of Abba apart from a few singles like Dancing Queen and Take A Chance On Me. Elsewhere Abba had a lot of top 5 singles with many going all the way to the top.

Some of these songs have previously appeared on Abba Live but on that album, there was some fixing up in the studio.

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The Police Live In Boston 1979

Live At Boston in November 1979 is the first CD in the two CD, two concert album The Police Live!

Because the two concerts are so different, I have decided to review them separately to help create a clearer review. The other CD is here – The Police Live In Atlanta 1983

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AC/DC Let There Be Rock The Movie – Live in Paris 1979

1979 – Let There Be Rock The Movie – Live in Paris

A motion picture of this concert, called AC/DC: Let There Be Rock was released on video in 1980, and finally on DVD on 7 June 2011.

The CD version is also included in the Bonfire boxset.

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Joan Armatrading Steppin Out 1979

Steppin’ Out is the first live album by British folk singer songwriter Joan Armatrading.

It has been re-branded Performance Classics: Steppin’ Out Live.

It was released in 1979.

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Abba Live 1979

Abba Live is a live compilation album by Swedish pop group Abba. Most of the tracks come from the 1979 performances at Wembley Arena in London.

In 2014 Abba Live At Wembley was released.

It also includes songs from the 1977 tour of Australia and four tracks from 1981 recorded for the Dick Clavett TV show.

Abba Live

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Supertramp Paris 1979

Paris is the first live album released by Supertramp. It was recorded in November 1979 in Paris on the tour to promote their mainstream breakthrough album Breakfast In America.

I remember seeing Supertramp on the Even In The Quietest Moments tour in 1976. I don’t know why but I can remember feeling the bass continually thudding into my chest, something that even Black Sabbath didn’t manage to achieve. Of course, with Sabbath I may have been too worried about protecting my hearing to notice.

Supertramp have never fitted into my definition of progressive rock so I’m treating them as an art rock group.

A combined DVD/CD release called Live In Paris ’79 has the missing six songs from the original concert and is therefore a more sensible purchase.

Supertramp Paris

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Joni Mitchell Shadows And Light 1979

Shadows And Light is a live album by Joni Mitchell recorded at the Santa Barbara County Bowl in September 1979 on the Mingus tour.

Her previous live album, Miles Of Aisles emphasises her traditional singer songwriter background, this album finds her singing in front of a jazz band and adding a jazz twist to her old sings.

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