''Live at Hammersmith '82!'' is a live album by the band
Duran Duran
Duran Duran () are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year the band wen ...
. Originally recorded at the
Hammersmith Odeon
The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace. Located in Ham ...
on , it was released by
EMI Records
EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It originally founded as a British flagship label by the music company of the same name in 1972, and launched in January 1973 as the succ ...
on ( in the U.S.) as a CD/DVD double pack.
The set was the third of three nights at the Hammersmith Odeon. The show was released in various ways, including as a
King Biscuit Flower Hour
The ''King Biscuit Flower Hour'' was an American syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock music recording artists.
History
The program was broadcast on Sunday nights from 197 ...
vinyl release and various bootlegs, including "Planet Heart".
The live version of "
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
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", originally from
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
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, was eventually released as the UK
b-side
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to "
The Reflex
"The Reflex" is the eleventh single by English new wave band Duran Duran, released in 1984. The song was heavily remixed for single release and was the third and last to be taken from their third studio album ''Seven and the Ragged Tiger'' ( ...
".
The CD/DVD release is supplemented by extra archive DVD content not previously released on DVD, including all six videos made for tracks off the ''
Rio'' album, as well as two archived
Top of the Pops
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performances.
The release date of ''Live at Hammersmith '82!'' coincides with the release of the two-disc (both CD & heavyweight vinyl) special editions of ''
Rio''.
For
Black Friday Record Store Day
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2022, ''Live at Hammersmith '82!'' was reissued on gold double vinyl edition limited to 4500 copies worldwide.
Track listing
2X LP (Reissue, 40th Anniversary Edition) :
Parlaphone
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Side One
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Side Three
Side Four
CD/DVD: EMI
References
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Duran Duran albums
Live video albums
2009 live albums
2009 video albums
Albums recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo