Plays Live
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| Live album by Peter Gabriel | ||||
| Released | 6 June 1983 | |||
| Recorded | November–December 1982, United States 1983, Bath, England |
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| Genre | Art rock, progressive rock, worldbeat, experimental rock | |||
| Length | 89:53 (original version) 66:50 (highlights version) |
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| Label | Geffen (US & Canada), Charisma | |||
| Producer | Peter Gabriel, Peter Walsh | |||
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2002 reissue cover
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| Singles from Plays Live | ||||
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Plays Live is the first live and fifth album overall released by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as a double album and longplay cassette in 1983, with sixteen songs. It was re-released in 1985, as a single CD version called Plays Live (Highlights) with only twelve songs, some of which are edited from their full-length versions, so that the album could fit on a single CD. It was eventually re-released in its entirety as a double CD set in 1987. In 2002, a remastered version of the Highlights version was re-released.
"Plays Live" concerts were recorded at:
Liner notes by "the producers" admit, "Although this album was compiled from four concerts in the mid-West of the United States, some additional recording took place not a thousand miles away from the home of the artist. The generic term of this process is 'cheating'. Care has been taken to keep the essence of the gigs intact, including 'human imperfection'."
The album's one previously unreleased song, "I Go Swimming," received airplay and made the US charts in 1983. (The song was initially performed by Gabriel during his 1980 world tour, in support of his third album.) "I Don't Remember" was issued as a single, with an accompanying music video, in the US as well.
All songs written by Peter Gabriel.
This side was recorded at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas on 4 December 1982.
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