Live on the Sunset Strip is a comedy album by Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...

. Recorded in 1982, the film was the most financially lucrative of the comedian's concert films. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the June 9, 1980 night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine.

The album won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording in 1982.

Track listing

1. "Women" – 11:24
2. "Prison" – 6:25
3. "Africa" – 10:33
4. "Mafia Club" – 6:04
5. "Mudbone" – 7:38
6. "Freebase" – 8:12
7. "Hospital" – 10:17

Recording locations

• Tracks 1-4 and 6-7 recorded at the Circle Star Theatre in San Carlos, California, December 1981 (except track 3, recorded in October 1981).
• Track 5 recorded at The Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California, January 5, 1982.

External links

• Roger Ebert's review