Live...in the Heart of the City
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Cover art by Jeff Cummins
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| 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 | |||
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Liberty/EMI (UK and Germany) Mirage/Atlantic (North America) Polydor (Japan) United Artists (Rest of the world) |
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| Producer | Martin Birch | |||
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| Live at Hammersmith cover | ||||
1978 live EP.
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| Singles from Live...in the Heart of the City | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| 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.
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