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 –
Moon Tears is a live recording by Nils Lofgren.
I’ve only seen it available as an mp3 released by Sunflash Records and has not been authorised for release by the artist.
The date or venue of the recording aren’t known but Secrets In The Street was a single in 1985 and on the Flip studio album.
Code Of The Road: Greatest Hits Live is a live album by Nils Lofgren.
It was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London for BBC Radio 1 in 1985.
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Transmission Impossible is a three CD collection of live radio and TV broadcasts.
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Back It Up Live ’85 is a recording of a live radio broadcast by Nils Lofgren in concert.
It was recorded at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey on 1 November 1985 during the tour to promote the Flip studio album and is released on the Echoes label. It is not to be confused with the similarly titled Back It Up Official Bootleg from 1975.
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Arizona State University, Tempe 1980 is a free mp3 download available from live.springsteen.net
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection includes a DVD of part of this concert on November 5, 1980 and this download provides the missing tracks.
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Maybe It’s Live is an album by Robert Palmer with some live in concert songs included within it.
These live recordings were made at the Dominion Theatre in London on October 11, 1980.
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Cow Palace 1986 is a live recording by Neil Young.
It was recorded in San Francisco on the 21st November, 1986 and was broadcast on KLOS FM.
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The Radio 1 Sessions 1980 – 1982 is a compilations of “live in the studio” recordings made by the BBC of Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 1980s.
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BBC In Concert Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989 is a live album by Duran Duran.
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Archive #2 1976 – 1992 is a collection of B-sides, live recordings and work in progresses by Genesis for the period after lead singer Peter Gabriel left.
There is a companion archive collection called Archive 1967 to 1975 which has a live performance of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway album and songs from their 1973 Rainbow performance.
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