Love You Live

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Love You Live
Live album by The Rolling Stones
Released	23 September 1977
Recorded	14 & 17 June 1975, 9 & 16 July 1975, 26 May 1976, 5-7 June 1976, 4 & 5 March 1977, Overdubs: 25 May - 20 June 1977
Genre	Rock
Length	1:23:12
Label	Rolling Stones/Virgin
Producer(s)	The Glimmer Twins
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (not rated) link Robert Christgau (C+) link
The Rolling Stones chronology
Black and Blue (1976)	Love You Live (1977)	Some Girls (1978)

Love You Live is a double live album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1977. The album is drawn from Tour of the Americas shows in the United States in the summer of 1975, Tour of Europe shows in 1976 and performances in Toronto, Canada in 1977. It is the band's third official full-length live release.

Contents 1 History 2 Track listing 2.1 Disc one 2.2 Disc two 3 Charts

[edit] History

The album was overdubbed and mixed from late May to mid-June 1977; it features Billy Preston and Ian Stewart on piano. Love You Live's artwork was prepared by Andy Warhol, and the pencil smears seen across the front were added to Warhol's dismay by Mick Jagger. Released in September 1977, the album was well-received and managed to reach #3 in the UK and #5 in the US, where it went gold.

Love You Live was The Rolling Stones' final album whereby Rolling Stones Records would be internationally distributed by Warner Music. The band's next several albums would be distributed through EMI worldwide, while they remained with Warner in North America only.

Love You Live was the final album where Keith Richard's name would be spelled as such, returning his surname to "Richards" beginning with 1978's Some Girls. During this album Keith Richards had just been busted for the possession of Heroin in Canada.

The album is notable more for its history rather than the live performances, many of which are sloppy and rushed (testimony to the extent of Richards' addictions; Jagger also slurs his way through the final four tracks which was his then new way of singing). The majority of the first disc was recorded at Les Abbatoirs in Paris, June 6 and 7, 1976. On the night of the June 6, 1976 performance, Richards was informed by his common law wife, Anita Pallenberg, that their baby Tara had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

The Stones decided to round out the live album by adding a second side of live club recordings performed at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto on March 4 and 5, 1977. The intention was to rip through a set of the sort of classic blues and R&B covers that sealed their reputation back at the Crawdaddy Club in 1963. Yet while the rest of The Rolling Stones arrived in Toronto on the scheduled day, ready to rehearse, Richards was still back in London. Eight days and dozens of angry phone calls and telegrams from his bandmates later, Richards and Pallenberg decided to join the others. Whilst flying to Toronto, Richards shot up in the plane's lavatory, and absent-mindedly chucked his drug paraphanalia into his wife's handbag which was immediately searched by customs upon landing. Though the Mounties and Canada customs officials allowed them to travel on to the hotel, the couple would be in for a surprise a couple of days later. Richards was awoken four days later by Canadian police who had already ransacked his room and found his stash of drugs which were large enough under Canadian law for Richards to face some serious trafficking charges, let alone possession.

Amazingly, considering the circumstances -and Jagger's paranoia that Richards could bring down the heat on all of them- The Rolling Stones consistently blew the roof off of the El Mocambo club; the versions of "Mannish Boy" and "Around And Around" on "Love You Live" particularly capturing the raunch of the performances. According to the band itself, the March 4 concert was shaky and troubled, but the March 5 gig was terrific. It must be noted that the versions that appear on album are heavily overdubbed, mostly with layers of new guitars. In the process, the Stones gained a very high profile groupie; none other than the First Lady of Canada, Margaret Trudeau, whose marriage to the Prime Minister was on shaky ground. Typically, Jagger decided to try cozy up to Mrs. Trudeau in order to see if she could use some of her influence to help get Richards off the hook. To no avail; ultimately it was Ron Wood "Madcap Maggie" really hit it off with; naturally the press caught wind of their affair and created a firestorm Pierre Trudeau had not seen since the FLQ Crisis seven years before. Fortunately for the Canadian government, the Wood/Maggie affair blew over.

A couple of minor song title differences occur on Love You Live: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is spelled with a "g" instead of the usual apostrophe (although it is corrected on the CD reissue), while "It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)" loses its bracketed title.

In 1998, Love You Live was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

[edit] Disc one

All tracks recorded in Paris, June 6 and 7, 1976, except were noted

1. "Intro: Excerpt From 'Fanfare for the Common Man'" (Aaron Copland) – 1:24
2. "Honky Tonk Women" – 3:19
3. "If You Can't Rock Me"/"Get Off Of My Cloud" – 5:00

• Recorded at Earl's Court, London, May 22, 1976

1. "Happy" – 2:55
2. "Hot Stuff" – 4:35
3. "Star Star" – 4:10
4. "Tumbling Dice" – 4:00
5. "Fingerprint File" – 5:17

• Recorded in Toronto, Canada, June 17, 1975

1. "You Gotta Move" (Fred McDowell/Rev. Gary Davis) – 4:19
2. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" – 7:42

[edit] Disc two

1. "Mannish Boy" (Ellas McDaniel/McKinley Morganfield/Mel London) – 6:28
2. "Crackin' Up" (Ellas McDaniel) – 5:40
3. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 4:39
4. "Around And Around" (Chuck Berry) – 4:09

• • The above four songs were recorded at the El Mocambo club in Toronto, Canada on 4/5 March 1977

1. "It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)" – 4:31

• Recorded in Toronto, Canada, June 17, 1975

1. "Brown Sugar" – 3:11
2. "Jumping Jack Flash" – 4:03
3. "Sympathy For The Devil" – 7:51

• Recorded in Los Angeles, U.S., July 9, 1975

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1977	UK Top 60 Albums	3
1977 1978	Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums	5 106

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