Living Ornaments '79

Live album by Gary Numan

Released

April 1981

Recorded

Hammersmith Odeon, London, 28 September 1979

Genre

New wave, synthpop

Length

71:10

Label

Beggars Banquet Records

Producer

Gary Numan

Gary Numan chronology

Telekon
(1980)

Living Ornaments '79
(1981)

Living Ornaments '80
(1981)

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Living Ornaments '79 (1981) is a live album by British musician Gary Numan recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 28 September 1979. It was also released as a limited edition box set with Living Ornaments '80 (1981). An expanded (21-track) version was reissued on a double CD in 1998 before a remastered version was again reissued in 2005. The nine tracks of the original Living Ornaments '79 were included on 1979: The Live EPs, a disc available to those who bought the expanded, 2-disc version of The Pleasure Principle from Numan's website in 2009.

All songs written by Gary Numan except where noted.

In 1980, an edited version of the 28 September 1979 concert was released on video under the title The Touring Principle '79; this has been cited as the world's first music video cassette and "special video effects" of the time were added to the recording. The songs featured on the video were "Me! I Disconnect From You", "M.E.", "We Are So Fragile", "Everyday I Die", "Conversation", "Remember I Was Vapour", "On Broadway", "Down in the Park", "My Shadow in Vain", "Are 'Friends' Electric?", and "Tracks". The concert itself was preceded on the original cassette by the promo video for "Cars". In 2009, The Touring Principle '79 was released on DVD with the same track listing and with the video effects removed (although the original video version with the effects is included as a bonus feature). The DVD does not feature the "Cars" video although it does include a 34-minute interview with Numan in 2009, recalling his memories of the original 1979 tour.

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