Music

Live At Leeds

Recorded on Valentines Day, 14 February 14 1970 at Leeds University, Live at Leeds was released in the UK in May 1970 on Track Records (2406 001), as a CD in the 1980s by Polydor (825 339-2) a Polydor remastered CD with additional tracks (527 169-2) in 1995, as a Deluxe Edition in 2001 (Polydor 112 618-2) and as a Super Deluxe Edition on it’s 40th birthday in 2010 (see BOX SETS). It was released simultaneously in the US on Decca (DL 79175), as a CD (MCA MCAD-37000, MFSL UDCD 755), as a remixed CD (MCA MCAD-11215 and a deluxe limited (and numbered) edition that included the paper inserts MCAD-11230) in 1995, and as a Deluxe Edition (E+CD MCA 088 112 618-2) in 2001. It was reissued on heavyweight vinyl in 2017 in a gatefold sleeve but without the loose inserts (although they were featured on the liner bag) with the original six tracks remastered.

TRACK LIST

  1. YOUNG MAN BLUES
  2. SUBSTITUTE
  3. SUMMERTIME BLUES
  4. SHAKIN’ ALL OVER
  5. MY GENERATION
  6. MAGIC BUS

Produced by The Who

Sleeve design by Graphreaks.

The original album consisted of just six tracks.

The first upgrade, the 1995 CD version of Live at Leeds consisted of 14 tracks. (The two catalogue numbers for the American version represent a regular CD release including a special 12″ x 12″edition so that full-size reproductions of the original enclosures could be included.) The remixed  /remastered CD interspersed eight songs in their proper order from the concert as follows:

  1. Heaven And Hell
  2. I Can’t Explain
  3. Fortune Teller
  4. Tattoo
  5. Young Man Blues
  6. Substitute
  7. Happy jack
  8. I’m A Boy
  9. A Quick One, While He’s Away
  10. Amazing Journey / Sparks
  11. Summertime Blues
  12. Shakin’ All Over
  13. My Generation
  14. Magic Bus

The second upgrade (The Deluxe Edition): This 2001 version included the entire concert, but as noted above not in the original order. Since all of Tommy is included on the second disc,’Amazing Journey’ / ‘Sparks’ / is dropped from the first disc (see above). The net result is a release that is far beyond the intent and scope of the original LP.

DISC ONE

  1. Heaven And Hell
  2. I Can’t Explain
  3. Fortune Teller
  4. Tattoo
  5. Young Man Blues
  6. Substitute
  7. Happy jack
  8. I’m A Boy
  9. A Quick One, While He’s Away
  10. Summertime Blues
  11. Shakin’ All Over
  12. My Generation
  13. Magic Bus

DISC TWO

  1. Overture
  2. It’s A Boy
  3. 1921
  4. Amazing Journey
  5. Sparks
  6. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
  7. Christmas
  8. The Acid Queen
  9. Pinball Wizard
  10. Do You Think It’s Alright?
  11. Fiddle About
  12. Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
  13. There’s A Doctor
  14. Go To The Mirror!
  15. Smash the Mirror
  16. Miracle Cure
  17. Sally Simpson
  18. I’m Free
  19. Tommy’s Holiday Camp
  20. We’re Not Gonna Take It

Deluxe edition produced by Jon Astley

Re-mix supervised by Pete Townshend
Re-mastered by Jon Astley at Close To the Edge

Deluxe edition design & art direction by Richard Evans
Liner notes by Chris Charlesworth
Live photos by Chris McCourt

For the third upgrade, see BOX SETS.

In 2017 Live At Leeds was reissued on heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with the inserts reproduced on the inner gatefold and individually on the liner bag.