Released 3 November 1980 Live...in the Heart of the City
(1980) Come an' Get It
(1981) Release date 3 November 1980 Label United Artists Records | Length 80:22 Artist Whitesnake Producer Martin Birch | |
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Recorded 23 November 1978, 23 and 24 June 1980 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London Genres Hard rock, Heavy metal, Blues rock Similar Whitesnake albums, Hard rock albums | ||
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.
Contents
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.
Whitesnake
Production
Songs
Come On3:39
Sweet Talker4:16
Walking in the Shadow of the Blues5:00