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Live at Hollywood High

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Released
  
12 January 2010

Length
  
73:05

Live at Hollywood High (2010)
  
National Ransom (2010)

Label
  
Hip-O Records

Recorded
  
4 June 1978

Producer
  
Nick Lowe

Release date
  
12 January 2010

Genres
  
New wave, Punk rock


Artists
  
Elvis Costello, The Attractions

Similar
  
Elvis Costello albums, Punk rock albums

Live at Hollywood High (officially released as Live at Hollywood High/The Costello Show Vol. 2) is a recording by Elvis Costello and the Attractions from a 1978 concert at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California. Three songs from the concert were originally included as a bonus 7" vinyl EP that sold with initial pressings of the Armed Forces album in 1979. A 2002 re-issue of Armed Forces added six tracks to the three from the EP (for a total of nine tracks) and placed them in proper running order. In 2010, the Hip-O Select label released a full version of Live at Hollywood High with all 20 tracks from the concert on one CD.

Contents

This release followed three earlier concert releases from Elvis Costello, including:

  • Nashville Rooms (London, England), recorded on 7 August 1977, which was included as a bonus CD on the 2007 deluxe edition of My Aim Is True (1977).
  • Warner Theatre (Washington, DC), recorded on 28 February 1978, which was included on the deluxe edition of This Year's Model (1978).
  • El Mocambo (Toronto, Ontario), recorded on 6 March 1978, which was released by CBS as a promotional LP in Canada and re-released in 1993 as one of four CDs on the 2½ Years box set. It was later given a stand-alone release as The Costello Show: Live at the El Mocambo in 2009. The original vinyl LP and CD re-releases of this concert all contain the same songs.

    • Personnel

  • Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals
    • The Attractions
  • Steve Nieve – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Bruce Thomas – bass, backing vocals
  • Pete Thomas – drums

    • Songs

    1Accidents Will Happen3:29
    2Mystery Dance2:02
    3Lip Service2:44

    References

    Live at Hollywood High Wikipedia
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