Live At The NEC was the second live album released by Status Quo, recorded at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in May 1982.
Tag: 1980s classic rock
Live Classic Rock Albums From The 1980s
To help you to find albums that you like, I have organised this website around genres of music with the general guideline that albums should only belong to one or two genres.
My classic rock section consists of albums that are generally successful and don’t belong in one of the more specialised categories. Often groups will start in one category and as they become more successful, they broaden out their sound and become classic rock.
Classic Rock Live Albums From The 1980s
Bryan Adams Live Live Live 1988
Bon Jovi One Wild Night Live 1985-2001
Bon Jovi Rockin’ Live in Cleveland 1984
David Bowie Serious Moonlight
David Bowie Glass Spider Live 1987
Rick Danko Richard Manuel and Paul Butterfield Live At The Lone Star Cafe 1984
Dexy’s Midnight Runners The Projected Passion Revue 1981
Dexy’s Midnight Runners Too-Rye-Ay Deluxe Rarities 1982
Dexy’s Midnight Runners BBC Radio One Live in Concert 1982
Dexys Midnight Runners The Radio 1 Sessions
Dire Straits Alchemy
The Doobie Brothers Live at the Greek Theater 1982
The Doobie Brothers Farewell Tour 1982
Duran Duran Live at Hammersmith ’82
Duran Duran Arena 1984
Duran Duran Live At The Beacon Theatre NYC 31st August 1987
Duran Duran BBC In Concert Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989
Bob Dylan Real Live 1984
Bob Dylan & The Dead
The Eagles The Eagles Live
Eurythmics Live 1983–1989
Peter Gabriel Plays Live 1982
Peter Gabriel Live In Athens 1987 (So 25th Anniversary)
J Geils Band Showtime 1982
Genesis Three Sides Live
Genesis Archive #2 1976-1992
Grateful Dead Dead Set 1980
Grateful Dead Without A Net 1989 1990
Hall & Oates Greatest Hits Live 1982
Hall & Oates Live At The Montreal Forum 1983
Heart Strange Night
Heart Live In Portland 89
Don Henley Don’t Look Back 1985
Joe Jackson Live At The BBC 1979 to 1983
Joe Jackson Live 1980 to 1986
The Jam Dig The New Breed
The Jam Live Jam
The Jam At The BBC 1977 to 1982
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live 1977 to 1982
The Jam Live At Wembley (The Gift Super Deluxe) 1982
Jethro Tull Live at Hammersmith ’84
Elton John Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Journey Live In Houston 1981 The Escape Tour
Journey Greatest Hits Live 1981 1983
The Kinks One For The Road
The Kinks Live The Road 1987
Huey Lewis Sports 30th Anniversary
Nils Lofgren Moon Tears Live
Nils Lofgren Code Of The Road
Nils Lofgren Back It Up Live ’85
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Budapest Live 1983
Paul McCartney Tripping The Live Fantastic (Full)
Meat Loaf Live at Wembley
Frankie Miller Live At Rockpalast 1976 1979 1982
Steve Miller Steve Miller Band Live!
Mink DeVille Live At Rockpalast
Robert Palmer At The BBC 1983
Robert Palmer Live At The Apollo 1988
Robert Palmer Maybe It’s Live
Tom Petty The Live Anthology 1976 to 2007
Tom Petty Pack Up the Plantation Live 1978 to 1985
Tom Petty Live To Air 1986
Tom Petty In The Coliseum 1987
Tom Petty Dean E Smith Activity Center University Of Carolina Sept 13 1989
Tom Petty Transmission Impossible
Pink Floyd Delicate Sound Of Thunder 1988
The Police Live
Queen Rock Montreal
Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl
Queen Live At Wembley
Queen Hungarian Rhapsody Live In Budapest ’86
Rainbow Final Vinyl
REM Songs For A Green World The Classic 1989 Broadcast
The Rolling Stones Still Life
Todd Rundgren King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert
Roxy Music Heart Still Beating 1982
Roxy Music The High Road
Rush Exit Stage Left
Rush Grace Under Pressure Tour 1984
Rush A Show of Hands 1988
Sad Cafe Live In Concert 1980
Bob Seger Nine Tonight
Simple Minds Live In The City Of Light
Spandau Ballet Live At The NEC 1986
Bruce Springsteen Live 1975 – 85
Bruce Springsteen Nassau Coliseum Uniondale New York 1980
Bruce Springsteen Arizona State University Tempe 1980
Bruce Springsteen Brendan Byrne Arena New Jersey 1984
Bruce Springsteen Los Angeles April 23 1988
Bruce Springsteen The Human Rights Broadcast Buenos Aires October 1988
Status Quo Live At The NEC
Status Quo Live At The BBC (2 CD Version)
Rod Stewart Live 1976 – 1998 Tonight’s The Night
Rod Stewart Absolutely Live 1982
Sting Bring On The Night 1985
The Stranglers BBC In Concert 8th February 1982
Supertramp Live 1988
Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC 1971 to 1983
Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC Super Deluxe Box Set 1971 to 1983
Tina Turner Tina Live In Europe
U2 Live At The Hammersmith Palais Plus 1982
U2 Under A Blood Red Sky
U2 Rattle And Hum 1987
U2 Live From Paris
Joe Walsh All Night Long
The Who Live From Toronto
The Who Who’s Last
The Who Join Together 1989
The Who Greatest Hits Live
Wishbone Ash Live Dates 2
Neil Young Cow Palace 1986
ZZ Top Live In Germany
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The All Time Best Classic Rock Live Albums
I don’t have a readers poll on finding the best live classic rock albums from this decade but I do have a poll to find the best all time classic rock live albums.
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Live classic rock albums by decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s –
David Bowie Glass Spider Live 1987
Glass Spider Live is a live album by David Bowie recorded from performances on 7th and 9th November 1987 performances in Sydney, Australia.
This is recording when Bowie’s star was waning after his extraordinary success in the 70s when his innovations were so popular.
David Bowie Glass Spider Live
Wishbone Ash Live Dates 2 1976 to 1980
Live Dates 2 is a live compilation album by Wishbone Ash pulling together recordings from 1976 to 1980.
In the original Live Dates, Ted Turner was the second guitarist duelling with Andy Powell but in Live Dates 2, he’s replaced by Laurie Wisefield.
The CD has been unavailable for many years except as an expensive import, but checking on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk shows that you can now get it for a normal price.
Wishbone Ash Live Dates 2
Bob Seger Nine Tonight 1980
Nine Tonight is the second live album by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. It was recorded in 1980 in Detroit when Seger had become an international superstar.
Before his first live album, Live Bullet, Bob Seger was a hard working rock’n’roll singer who had gained a great reputation in his home territory of Detroit, Michigan but he wasn’t well known or very popular elsewhere in the USA or internationally.
Live Bullet is a fiery, energetic set which demanded attention and Seger had the nous to capitalise on it with his following commercial studio albums, Night Moves and Stranger In Town.
Releasing Nine Tonight was an obvious move to give the fans a chance to hear the new Seger show with the hits.
This album was remastered in 2011 and an extra song – Brave Strangers – has been added.
Bob Seger Nine Tonight
The Who Live From Toronto 1982
Live From Toronto is a live album by The Who from their 1982 tour promoting the It’s Hard studio album.
And yes, it was recorded at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada.
The Who Live From Toronto
Rush Exit Stage Left 1980 & 1981
Exit Stage Left is the second live album by Rush after the success of their first, All The World’s A Stage.
It was recorded at two concerts – June 10-11, 1980 at The Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland on the Permanent Waves tour and March 27, 1981 at The Forum, Montreal on the Moving Pictures tour.
This represents the peak time for the group as they changed their sound from the progressive heavy metal of All The World’s A Stage to a more classic rock style. They even started having hit singles with songs like Spirit Of the Radio and Tom Sawyer.
Rush Exit Stage Left
The Who Join Together 1989
Join Together is a recording of The Who performing live in 1989.
It was the first time a live version of Tommy was released although this has also subsequently appeared on an extended The Who Live At Leeds Live At Hull and Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival.
Tommy was played on this tour because the group were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the original studio album. Personally I’ve never thought the songs – and especially the studio album – live up to the good reputation it has.
Prepare yourself. Join Together is a very different listening experience to the other live albums by The Who because it features brass.
I’ve heard it called “The Who Las Vegas style” but I like it. You do need an open mind and it comes as quite a shock if you’ve loved Live At Leeds and you want a similar roar in the live recordings of the later songs.
Review Of The Who Join Together – Overall Rating of 24/30
Genesis Three Sides Live 1981
Three Sides Live is the third Genesis live album, mainly recorded on the 1981 Abacab tour. This is partway on the move from prog-rock to pop-rock.
It’s a confusing background with different versions of the album released in the UK and the USA.
The American version of the album had three sides live and one side of an LP with studio recordings.The British version had extra live songs from earlier, more progressive concerts.
In 1994 the British version of the album was remastered and released throughout the world.
Some of the songs were recorded at the NEC, Birmingham on 23rd December 1981 and I think I was at that gig. I certainly saw Genesis several times at the NEC in the early eighties.
Genesis Three Sides Live
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U2 Live From Paris 1987
Live From Paris is a live album recorded by U2 from a concert in Paris in 1987 promoting The Joshua Tree album.
It was originally released as a bonus DVD with the remastered The Joshua Tree album in 2007 and then a music only version was made available through iTunes in 2008. It’s also available from Amazon.co.uk but not from Amazon.com (at the time of writing).
U2 Live From Paris
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U2 Under A Blood Red Sky 1983
Under A Blood Red Sky is the first live album by U2, recorded at concerts in 1983 when they were promoting the War studio album.
