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My Favourite Live Albums

Mark Holburn
8 min readMar 2, 2022

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Ok. This is my go at Pierce’s challenge to write about favourite live albums. I have chosen 5 but the list could be so much more.

Anyone who knows me will no doubt think I will list all of Springsteen’s live albums. Indeed, I could cite Springsteen’s Hammersmith Odeon London 75, Live in Dublin, Live In New York City and the recently released No Nukes as my favourites. Nevertheless, I am going to cast my Springsteen passion aside for this. Contrary to a couple of my friend’s beliefs, I do have many other musical tastes and hopefully the list below is somewhat different to other writers’ lists.

Springsteen Live 75 -85

Credit: Columbia Records

Having said all above, I am going to contradict myself completely. I simply cannot have a favourite live album list without one Springsteen collection!

I know this has been already listed and reviewed by top Springsteen writer Paul Combs. We should call him the Boss of Springsteen articles. Therefore, I am not even going to attempt to match a review, but just add a few of my thoughts on the album.

When this album came out, it was a time when Springsteen released very little live music. If you wanted live…

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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