Classic Rock Live Albums Recorded In 1984
Live albums include:
Bon Jovi Rockin’ Live in Cleveland 1984
Rick Danko Richard Manuel and Paul Butterfield Live At The Lone Star Cafe 1984
Duran Duran Arena 1984
Bob Dylan Real Live 1984
Joe Jackson Live 1980 to 1986
Rush Grace Under Pressure Tour 1984
Bruce Springsteen Brendan Byrne Arena New Jersey 1984
Rod Stewart Live 1976 – 1998 Tonight’s The Night
Live at Hammersmith ’84 is a live album by Jethro Tull.
It was recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in London on 9th September 1984 and broadcast on BBC Radio 1’s Friday Rock Show.
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Rockin’ Live in Cleveland 1984 is a live recording by Bon Jovi.
It was recorded at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland on 17th March 1984 and broadcast by by WMMS FM.
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Brendan Byrne Arena, New Jersey 1984 is an archive released live album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
It was recorded in East Rutherford on August 5, 1984 and is only available through live.brucespringsteen.net
By this stage, the Born In The USA album had seen him switch to performing in huge stadiums. Nils Lofgren had replaced Miami Steve Van Zandt.
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Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Paul Butterfield Live At The Lone Star Cafe in New York in 1984.
This is an interesting combination of styles and songs as two former members of The Band perform in concert with blues man Paul Butterfield.
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Live 1980/86 is a collection of live recordings by Joe Jackson that collects songs from four different tours.
When it was a vinyl double album, each side represented a particular tour:
Live 1976 – 1998 Tonight’s The Night is a compilation live album by Rod Stewart that extends over 4 CDs.
The first disc is all from 1976, the second moves from 1976 to 1981, the third from 1984 to 1989 and the final disc from 1991 to 1998.
This then captures his career as he turned from a rocker with the Faces to a massively successful pop star.
The critical view is that he had “it” in the early 1970s with albums like Every Picture Tells A Story but he was losing it by the time Sailing and Atlantic Crossing appeared in 1975 and it was gone completely by the time that he turned to disco with Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.
That view probably needs to be refined. He continued to produce high quality singles with the odd exception, even if he’d lost that special creativity that he had in his younger days.
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Grace Under Pressure 1984 Tour
This album took 25 years between being recorded in 1984 and released in 2009.
It seems to be strangely overlooked but it combines songs from the first two stages of their career together with highlights from the Grace Under Pressure album.
Arena is the first live album released by new romantics Duran Duran and was recorded on tour around the world in 1984.
The album was remastered and re-released in 2004 with two extra tracks, Girls On Film and Rio which makes the set list even stronger.
Real Live is a live album by Bob Dylan recorded in 1984 with a star backing band including ex Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and Ian McLagen from The Faces at concerts in England and Ireland.
It was Taylor’s involvement that persuaded me to buy this Dylan album because I loved his guitar playing with the Stones (listen to it on Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out and Brussels Affair).
And I’m glad I did.
It’s not a classic but it’s well worth hearing.
