Colosseum Live

Colosseum Live is a live album by Colosseum, released in 1971. It was one of the band's most commercially successful albums, remaining in the UK Albums Chart for six weeks and peaking at number 17.[1] The album peaked at number 48 in Australia in 1972.[2]

Colosseum Live
Live album by
Colosseum
ReleasedJune, 1971
RecordedMarch 18 & 27, 1971
GenreJazz fusion, blues-rock
Length73:48
LabelBronze (UK)
Warner Bros. (U.S.)
ProducerGerry Bron, Jon Hiseman & Colosseum
Colosseum chronology
Daughter of Time
(1970)		 Colosseum Live
(1971)		 Colosseum LiveS - The Reunion Concerts
(1994)

This album was recorded at Manchester University (March 18, 1971)[3] and the Big Apple, Brighton (March 27, 1971),[3] on the "Daughter of Time" tour. After "Colosseum Live", the band broke up for 23 years and reunited in 1994 with exactly the same line-up..

Reception

Allmusic wrote that "With good material, some towering performances, and a powerful atmosphere, this is everything you could hope for from a live album." They made note of the performances of all the players except Dave Greenslade, and commented that the band arrangements, duets during the fills, and the way solos flow from one to the other are all interesting and effective.[4]

Track listing
  1. "Rope Ladder to the Moon" (Pete Brown, Jack Bruce) – 9:43
  2. "Walking in the Park" (Graham Bond) – 8:21
  3. "Skelington" (Dave Clempson, Jon Hiseman) – 14:52
  4. "Tanglewood '63" (Mike Gibbs) – 10:12
  5. "Encore... "Stormy Monday Blues"" (T-Bone Walker) – 7:29
  6. "Lost Angeles" (Dave Greenslade, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Chris Farlowe) – 15:43
  7. "I Can't Live Without You" (James Litherland) – 7:28  [Bonus Track on later edition CD]

Personnel

References
  1. Colosseum chart history, The Official Charts. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 71. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. Remember The Times - a month by month look at the years between 1966-1975: March 1971
  4. Allmusic review


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