Label: Teichiku Records (Japan), TECW-25319
Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 57:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 392 Mb
Live at Last is a 1980 live album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Despite its wide distribution and success (it peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart), the album was released without the permission or knowledge of the band, and is equivalent to an unofficial bootleg live album. The album was, however, released legally by the band's former manager Patrick Meehan who owned the rights to the recording. The nature of the album's initial release as being without the band's approval is demonstrated by a notoriously embarrassing goof in the original version, which falsely credited the singer as "Ossie Osbourne".
The release of Live at Last, combined with the 1982 release of Ozzy Osbourne's Speak of the Devil live album consisting entirely of Black Sabbath songs, prompted Black Sabbath to release their first official live album, 1982's Live Evil.
During the band's Volume 4 tour, the concerts held on 11 March 1973 at the Hardrock Concert Theatre in Manchester, and 16 March 1973 at the Rainbow Theatre in London, were recorded for use in a planned live album release, but the project was ultimately scrapped despite its plans being already promoted in UK newspaper articles. Despite the liner notes of a 1996 reissue of Live at Last stating the Manchester concert was held at the Free Trade Hall, this is easily proven incorrect when referencing historical documentation such as tour listings and ticket stubs.
The album has received a mixed to negative review from AllMusic, with critic Alex Henderson stating that he found the band "in decent form" but criticizing the shortness of the release and the absence of some of Black Sabbath's best known material such as "Iron Man" and their title track "Black Sabbath".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_Last_(Black_Sabbath_album))
Year: Recorded 11-16 March 1973 (CD October 21, 1996)
Label: Teichiku Records (Japan), TECW-25319
Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 57:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 392 Mb
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