| Live on Blueberry Hill | |
|---|---|
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| Live album by | |
| Recorded | September 4, 1970 |
| Venue | Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, California |
| Length | 106:53 |
| Label | Trademark of Quality |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Live on Blueberry Hill (also known as Blueberry Hill) is a bootleg recording of English rock group Led Zeppelin's performance at the Los Angeles Forum on September 4, 1970, which took place during their summer 1970 North American Tour.[2]
The audience recording is one of the first Led Zeppelin bootlegs, and one of the first ever rock and roll bootlegs. It was released on the Blimp label.[3] The album was reissued on the Trademark of Quality label and shipped to England. The album sold so many copies that many fans thought it was a legal release.[4] The sleeve notes describe it as "One hundred and six minutes and fifty three seconds of pure alive rock."[5]
Live on Blueberry Hill derives its name from Zeppelin's performance of Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" as a final encore. The bootleg also features one of the few known live performances of "Out on the Tiles", from the group's third album,[4][5] plus "Bron-Yr-Aur", which would not be released officially until five years later, on Physical Graffiti.
From the 1980s the bootleg became available on CD as a two-disc set, often under the titles Blueberry Hill and The Final Statements.[4]
Led Zeppelin parody cover band Dread Zeppelin released an album in 1995 entitled Live on Blueberry Cheesecake – a play on the title of this bootleg release.
"I actually prefer …Blueberry Hill to [pioneering Zeppelin bootleg] Pb," remarked photographer (and Jimmy Page's friend) Ross Halfin, "even though it isn't such good sound quality, but because it includes the whole show."[6]
In 2017, the Empress Valley bootleg label released the nine-CD, Live On Blueberry Hill: The Complete 1970 L.A. Forum Tapes, which includes five different source recordings of the concert.
- ^ "Live on Blueberry Hill [Trademark of Quality] - Led Zeppelin | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Led Zeppelin | Official Website The Forum - September 4, 1970". Ledzeppelin.com. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Robert Godwin, The illustrated collector's guide to Led Zeppelin, Collector's Guide, 1994.
- ^ a b c Rey, Luis (1997) Led Zeppelin Live: An Illustrated Exploration of Underground Tapes, Ontario: The Hot Wacks Press. ISBN 0-9698080-7-0, pp. 130-131.
- ^ a b Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4.
- ^ Halfin, Ross (May 2015). "Who's Who". Classic Rock #209. p. 68.