The complete 33 track set form Leeds University, 14 February 1970. 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. It includes the hits, ‘Substitute,’ ‘My Generation,’ ‘I’m A Boy’ and ‘Magic Bus.’ Also features covers of ‘Summertime Blues’ and ‘Shakin’ All Over.’ Would have been incredible to have been front and centre at this show, but at least we’ll always have the recording. Live at Leeds is the first live vinyl record by the English rock band The Who. I opted for the 1995 expanded edition, which has 14 songs at double the running time. The original LP included 6 songs and clocked in just under 40 minutes. This album is a warts and all display of The Who at their finest. But this deluxe edition finally restores the blistering February 1970 Leeds University concert to its. The bass guitar didn’t record properly at the Hull show, so by default, Leeds it was. Long considered one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, the Who's Live at Leeds was originally edited and packaged to resemble the haphazard state of early-'70s bootlegs, then expanded and sonically upgraded in the mid-1990s. Roger Daltrey: Hull was a better gig than Leeds.
And the band remembered Hull as being the better of the two shows, with the City Hall offering warmer acoustics. The 1995 single-disc restoration of Live at Leeds more than doubled the original six-track album, which consists of all the non-Tommy material performed that evening. (Photo by Graham Lowe /Redferns) Hull was expected to be the live recording, with Leeds as warm-up and back-up. It was recorded at the University of Leeds Refectory on 14 February 1970, and is their 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. While impressive, that performance merely scratches the surface of the multifaceted sonic and visual improvements that exist on the Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition). Live At Leeds was still a week away from entering the UK bestsellers when the album recorded on the university campus at Leeds in England opened in the US at No.52. The band scheduled two shows in England for the purposes of a live record one at Univerity of Leeds and the other at Hull. Live at Leeds is the first live album by English rock band The Who. The band had recorded many shows on their US tour in 1969, but on their return, Townshend, overwhelmed with the prospect of listening to all the recordings from the tour (try listening to 500 albums in a row, mate), he instructed sound engineer, Bob Pridden to burn the tapes. In 1967, he smashed 35 guitars, but in 1969, only 3 were sacrificed). In 1969, The Who were at the top of their game with a reputation for their incredible live act (of course, Pete Townshend became famous for smashing his guitar to bits at the end of their concerts.
Following the release of one of their greatest ever records, ‘Tommy,’ The Who released what is considered by many to be the finest live album ever released.
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