''Live'' is a 1974 album by

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recorded during their debut US performance at the Uris Theater (Gershwin) on Broadway in

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as the opening act. A remastered and expanded 30th Anniversary Edition was released by

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on the Columbia label (516051). The release of the album in its original form in 1974 coincided with the announcement of the band's demise and it was, therefore, their final release. It was a single disc album in its original format but the addition of thirteen extra tracks has seen it expand to a double CD package. The original release peaked at No. 32 in the

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Track listing

Original LP

Side A (Broadway) #"

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" (Hunter) – 5:05 #"Sucker" (Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 6:06 #"Rest in Peace" (Griffin, Hunter, Watts) – 5:57 #"

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) – 3:49 #"Walkin' With A Mountain" (Hunter) – 5:02 Side B (Hammersmith) #"Sweet Angeline" (Hunter) – 7:03 #"Rose" (Griffin, Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 4:46 #"Jerkin' Crocus" / "One of the Boys" / "Rock & Roll Queen" / "

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" / "

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" / "Violence" (Sunny David, Hunter,

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, Ralphs, Dave Williams) – 16:00

''30th Anniversary Edition'' 2 CD set (2004)

CD 1 - Broadway # Intro - "Jupiter" from ''The Planets'' (

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) – 0:46 # " American Pie"/ "The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll" (

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/ Hunter) – 4:16 # "Sucker" (Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 5:59 # "Roll Away The Stone" / "

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" (Hunter / Reed) – 3:52 # "Rest in Peace" (Griffin, Hunter, Watts) – 6:01 # "All The Way From Memphis" (Hunter) – 5:02 # "Born Late '58" (Watts) – 4:51 # "

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" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 5:32 # "Hymn for the Dudes" (Allen, Hunter) – 5:46 # "Marionette" (Hunter) – 5:04 # "Drivin' Sister" / "Crash Street Kidds" / "Violence" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 9:06 # "All The Young Dudes" (Bowie) – 3:49 # "Walking with a Mountain" (Hunter) – 4:54 CD 2 - Hammersmith # Intro - "Jupiter" from ''The Planets'' (Holst) – 0:46 # "Drivin' Sister" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 3:51 # "Sucker" (Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 6:03 # "Sweet Jane" (Reed) – 5:10 # "Sweet Angeline" (Hunter) – 6:47 # "Rose" (Buffin, Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 4:42 # "Roll Away The Stone" (Hunter) – 3:31 # "All The Young Dudes" (Bowie) – 3:53 # "Jerkin' Crocus" / "One of the Boys" / "Rock 'n' Roll Queen" / "Get Back" / "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" / "Violence" (David, Hunter, Lennon, McCartney, Ralphs, Williams) – 16.16 # "Walking with a Mountain" (Hunter) – 9:09

Personnel

;Mott the Hoople * Ian Hunter –

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, * Peter Overend Watts – bass guitar, vocals, *

Dale "Buffin" Griffin Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (24 October 1948 – 17 January 2016) was an English drummer and a founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople. Later, he worked as a producer, and produced many of the BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 19 ...

–

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, vocals, *

Ariel Bender Luther James Grosvenor (born 23 December 1946) is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym Ariel Bender, in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker. Grosvenor was born in Evesham, ...

–

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, vocals, *

Morgan Fisher Stephen Morgan Fisher (born 1 January 1950) is an English keyboard player and composer, and is most known as a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However, his career has covered a wide range of musical activities, and he is still ac ...

–

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, vocals with: *

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- organ (U.S.) *Mick Bolton - organ (UK) *Stan Tippins - vocals on "All the Young Dudes" ;Technical *Fred Heller - executive producer * Gary Klein - executive production supervision * Bill Price, Gary Edwards - engineer (Island mobile studio) *James Reeves - engineer (Record Plant mobile studio) *Alan "Pinball Wizard" Harris, Bill Price, Gary Edwards, Peter Swettenham, Peter Wilson, Sean Milligan,

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- remix engineer *Roslav Szaybo - sleeve design *Dagmar Krajnc - front cover photography

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Live (Mott The Hoople Album) Mott the Hoople albums 1974 live albums Columbia Records live albums Albums recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo