Living Ornaments '81

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Living Ornaments '81
Live album by Gary Numan
Released	January 1998
Recorded	Wembley Arena, London, 28 April 1981
Genre	New wave, synthpop
Length	121:28
Label	Beggars Banquet Records
Producer	Gary Numan
Gary Numan chronology
Exile (1997) Living Ornaments '81 (1998) The Mix (1998)

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Living Ornaments '81 is a live album recording of a concert on 28 April 1981 by British musician Gary Numan. It was released as a double CD in 1998. The 28 April 1981 show was the third and last of Numan's 'Farewell Concerts' staged at Wembley Arena (although Numan would return to performing live shows the following year). The concert was filmed and released on VHS as Micromusic in April 1982; Living Ornaments '81 is essentially an audio release of the video, albeit one released almost 16 years later.

In 1981, Beggars Banquet Records released edited versions of two Numan concerts as the live albums Living Ornaments '79 and Living Ornaments '80. In 1998, an expanded version of Living Ornaments '79, featuring the entire concert, was released on CD. An expanded CD version of Living Ornaments '80 album had been planned for release as well, but tapes of the full concert had been lost. Living Ornaments '81 – hitherto unreleased as an official live album – was therefore released on CD instead. (In 2004, a mixing console recording of a complete concert from Numan's 1980 tour was discovered and deemed to be of sufficient quality to release commercially, enabling an expanded CD re-release of Living Ornaments '80 in 2005.)