| Leon Live | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | August 28, 1972 | |||
| Venue | Long Beach Arena | |||
| Studio | Ardent Studios | |||
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| Length | 108:03 | |||
| Label | Shelter Records (US); A&M (UK) | |||
| Leon Russell chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Leon Live is a live album by singer and songwriter Leon Russell recorded on August 28, 1972, at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California. It was Russell's first live album and was originally released as a three-LP set in a tri-fold cover on Russell's Shelter Records label. The album was mixed at Ardent Studios and distributed by Capitol Records. The album peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and received a gold certification for sales of over 500,000 albums. Leon Live was re-released on CD by The Right Stuff Records in 1996. The album has gold certification for sales of over 500,000 albums in the US and Canada
In November 1972, Billboard cited Russell as a top concert draw and reported the 1972 tour gross at almost $3 million.[2][3][4]
- ^ a b c Eder, Bruce. "Leon Live". Allmusic. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ^ Billboard vol. 84, no. 45, p. 40, November 4, 1972.
- ^ Softshoe.com, List of albums recorded by Leon Russell Archived 2017-03-30 at the Wayback Machine,
- ^ Discography of Leon Russell, Discogs.com