Live at Leeds

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LIVE AT LEEDS

 
Live at Leeds  is the first live album by English rock band the Who.  It was the only live album that was released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their best known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon.  Two shows were scheduled, one at the University of Leeds and the other in Hull, for the express purpose of recording and releasing a live album; technical problems with the recordings from the Hull gig made it necessary for the other show to be used for the album.  Initially released in May 1970, Live at Leeds has been cited by several music critics as the best live rock recording of all time.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Other widely bootlegged rock artists have similarly acknowledged the bootlegging world; Aerosmith even called their first official live album (in 1978Live! Bootleg.  The cheap-looking printing on the cover perfectly mimicked bootleg albums, and the back cover featured a couple of faux coffee stains.  There were even deliberate errors in the song listing.  The cover of the Who’s first live album, Live at Leeds (1970) also looks like a bootleg album; ironically, the recording quality on Live at Leeds is the best of any live album that I had previously heard. 
 
(August 2012)
 
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First on the agenda for Mick Farren as the Sixties came to a close was to fulfill his recording contract after he was thrown out of his own band.  In March 1970, Farren released Mona – The Carnivorous Circus; essentially, this was Mick Farren’s first solo album, although the album is often credited to the Deviants.  The album is bookended by the great Bo Diddley song “Mona”, though the largest part of the album was the meandering two-part “Carnivorous Circus”.  There is also a rendition of the great Eddie Cochran song that was later made famous by the Who, “Summertime Blues”; their first release of “Summertime Blues” was on their 1970 Live at Leeds album. 

 
(March 2014/1)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021