| Live at Last | ||||
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| Released | June 1980 | |||
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| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 57:08 | |||
| Label | NEMS | |||
| Producer | Patrick Meehan | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Live at Last is a 1980 live album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Despite its wide distribution and success (it peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart[2]), the album was released without the permission or knowledge of the band, and is thus regarded in some quarters as an unofficial bootleg live album. The album was, however, released legally by the band's former manager Patrick Meehan who owned the rights to the recording.[3] It was re-released officially, with the approval of the band, on September 2, 2002 (in the US) as disc 1 of the two-disc Past Lives set.[4]
The nature of the album's initial release as being without the band's approval is demonstrated by a notoriously embarrassing goof in the original version, which falsely credited the singer as "Ossie Osbourne".[1]
- ^ a b Henderson, Alex. Live at Last at AllMusic. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ "Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath Live at Last". The Official Charts Company.org. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
- ^ Iommi, Tony; Lammers, T. J. (11 December 2012). "50 – Gettin Black and Blue". Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-82145-5.
- ^ "Past Lives – Black Sabbath Online". www.black-sabbath.com. Retrieved 16 June 2022.