Live...In the Heart of the City

Live...in the Heart of the City
Cover art by Jeff Cummins
Live album by Whitesnake
Released	3 November 1980
Recorded	23 November 1978, 23 and 24 June 1980 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
Genre	Hard rock, blues rock
Length	80:22
Label	Liberty/EMI (UK and Germany) Mirage/Atlantic (North America) Polydor (Japan) United Artists (Rest of the world)
Producer	Martin Birch
Whitesnake chronology
Ready an' Willing (1980) Live...in the Heart of the City (1980) Come an' Get It (1981)
Live at Hammersmith cover
1978 live EP.
Singles from Live...in the Heart of the City
"Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" Released: 1980

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AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	5/10

Live...in the Heart of the City is a 1980 live album by British rock band Whitesnake. Originally released as a double-vinyl album, and double-play cassette, it utilises recordings made in 1978 and 1980. The album charted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart, and number 146 on the Billboard 200.

Sides 1 and 2 of the vinyl are from recordings made with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio at the Hammersmith Odeon, during the band's 1980 World Tour, whilst sides 3 and 4 are from a 1978 recording, previously issued and released in Japan only as Live at Hammersmith.

The first UK CD version (EMI CZD 94) was a 2-CD set, issued in 1988, in what is now known as a 'fat-boy' double-CD case. Sides 1 and 2 of the 2-LP set were CD1; sides 3 and 4 were CD2.

The later 1994 release was a single CD version, the 1978 recording of "Come On" being dropped to match the restrictive running-time of the single CD.

Live...in the Heart of the City has since been remastered and was released in March 2007 as a 2-CD set (in a slimline double-CD case), once again featuring all the tracks of the original album, together with a 1980 recording of "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" as a bonus track.

The sleeve-art is by British artist Jeff Cummins.