Live (Mott the Hoople album)
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Mott The Hoople Live is a 1974 album by British
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 band Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...

. A remastered and expanded 30th Anniversary Edition was released by Sony BMG 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.

Original LP

Side A (Broadway)
  1. "All the Way from Memphis
    All the Way from Memphis
    "All the Way from Memphis" is a single released by Mott the Hoople. The song tells a story about a rock n' roller whose guitar is shipped to Oriole, Kentucky instead of Memphis. The musician gets half-way there before he realizes his instrument is missing and takes a month to track it down. When he...

    " (Hunter) – 5:05
  2. "Sucker" (Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 6:06
  3. "Rest In Peace" (Griffin, Hunter, Watts) – 5:57
  4. "All the Young Dudes
    All the Young Dudes (song)
    "All the Young Dudes" is a song written by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972. NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described the track as "one of that rare breed: rock songs which hymn the solidarity of the disaffected without...

    " (Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

    ) – 3:49
  5. "Walkin' With A Mountain" (Hunter) – 5:02

Side B (Hammersmith)
  1. "Sweet Angeline" (Hunter) – 7:03
  2. "Rose" (Griffin, Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 4:46
  3. "Jerkin' Crocus" / "One Of The Boys" / "Rock & Roll Queen" / "Get Back
    Get Back
    "Get Back" is a song by The Beatles, composed by Paul McCartney and frequently attributed to Lennon–McCartney. The song was originally released as a single on 11 April 1969, and credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." A different mix of the song later became the closing track of Let It Be ,...

    " / "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On
    Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On
    "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" is a song best known in the 1957 rock and roll/rockabilly hit version by Jerry Lee Lewis.-Origins of the song:...

    " / "Violence" (David, Hunter, Lennon, McCartney, Ralphs, Williams) – 16:00

30th Anniversary Edition 2 CD set (2004)

CD 1 - Broadway
  1. Intro - "Jupiter" from The Planets (Holst
    Gustav Holst
    Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....

    ) – 0:46
  2. "American Pie"/ "The Golden Age Of Rock'n'Roll" (McLean
    Don McLean
    Donald "Don" McLean is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".-Musical roots:...

     / Hunter) – 4:16
  3. "Sucker" (Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 5:59
  4. "Roll Away The Stone" / "Sweet Jane
    Sweet Jane
    "Sweet Jane" is a song by The Velvet Underground, originally appearing on their 1970 album Loaded. The song was written by band's leader Lou Reed, who continued to incorporate the piece into live performances years later as a solo artist....

    " (Hunter / Reed) – 3:52
  5. "Rest In Peace" (Griffin, Hunter, Watts) – 6:01
  6. "All The Way From Memphis" (Hunter) – 5:02
  7. "Born Late '58" (Watts) – 4:51
  8. "One Of The Boys" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 5:32
  9. "Hymn For The Dudes" (Allen, Hunter) – 5:46
  10. "Marionette" (Hunter) – 5:04
  11. "Drivin' Sister" / "Crash Street Kidds" / "Violence" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 9:06
  12. "All The Young Dudes" (Bowie) – 3:49
  13. "Walking With A Mountain" (Hunter) – 4:54


CD 2 - Hammersmith
  1. Intro - "Jupiter" from The Planets (Holst) – 0:46
  2. "Drivin' Sister" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 3:51
  3. "Sucker" (Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 6:03
  4. "Sweet Jane" (Reed) – 5:10
  5. "Sweet Angeline" (Hunter) – 6:47
  6. "Rose" (Buffin, Hunter, Ralphs, Watts) – 4:42
  7. "Roll Away The Stone" (Hunter) – 3:31
  8. "All The Young Dudes" (Bowie) – 3:53
  9. "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
  10. "Walking With A Mountain" (Hunter) – 9:09

Personnel

  • Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter (singer)
    Ian Hunter Patterson is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and he again fronted them at the time of their 2009 reunion. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and...

     – vocals, rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

    ,
  • Peter Overend Watts
    Peter Watts (musician)
    Peter Overend Watts is a bass guitar player and founding member of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople....

     – bass guitar, vocals,
  • Dale "Buffin" Griffin – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , vocals,
  • Ariel Bender
    Luther Grosvenor
    Luther James Grosvenor 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....

     – lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    , vocals,
  • Morgan Fisher
    Morgan Fisher
    Morgan Fisher is an English keyboard player / composer, and is most known for being 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 highly active in the music industry...

     – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , vocals
  • Blue Weaver
    Blue Weaver
    Blue Weaver is a British keyboard player, session musician, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:...

    - organ (U.S.)
  • Mick Bolton - organ (UK)
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