Colosseum Live

Colosseum Live
Live album by
ReleasedJune 1971
Recorded18 & 27 March 1971
VenueManchester University; The Big Apple, Brighton
GenreJazz fusion, blues-rock
Length73:48
LabelBronze (UK)
Warner Bros. (U.S.)
ProducerGerry Bron, Jon Hiseman, Colosseum
Colosseum chronology
Daughter of Time
(1970)
Colosseum Live
(1971)
Colosseum LiveS - The Reunion Concerts
(1994)

Colosseum Live is a live album by Colosseum, released in 1971. It was one of the band's most commercially successful albums, remaining in the UK Albums Chart for six weeks and peaking at number 17.[1] The album peaked at number 48 in Australia in 1972.[2]

This album was recorded at Manchester University (18 March 1971)[3] and the Big Apple, Brighton (27 March 1971),[3] on the Daughter of Time tour. After Colosseum Live, the band broke up for 23 years and reunited in 1994 with exactly the same line-up.

  1. ^ Colosseum chart history, The Official Charts. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 71. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ a b Remember The Times - a month by month look at the years between 1966-1975: March 1971 [1]