10CC : LIVE AND LET DIE

 

Disc One

  1. The Second Sitting for the Last Supper
  2. You've Got a Cold
  3. Honeymoon with B Troop
  4. Art for Art's Sake
  5. People in Love
  6. Wall Street Shuffle
  7. Ships Don't Disappear in the Night
  8. I'm Mandy Fly Me
  9. Marriage Bureau Rendezvous

Disc Two

  1. Good Morning Judge
  2. Feel the Benefit
  3. The Things We Do for Love
  4. Waterfall
  5. I'm Not in Love
  6. Modern Man Blues

Label : 2000 Fruit Gum

Release Year : 1977

Length : 90:43

Venue : Odeon Theatre, London, UK + Apollo Theatre, Manchester, UK

Recording Dates : July 16 - 20, 1977

Review (AllMusic) : The time for a 10CC live album would have been as they toured The Original Soundtrack with one of the most adventurous - not to mention musically extravagant - shows of the age. Instead, they waited two more years, until the newly reduced Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman-led lineup headed out to promote the first LP since the split, Deceptive Bends, buoyed by the fact that the hits just kept on coming. It is a fun listen on its own terms, a double-vinyl package that wraps a hard-hitting rock show around a good selection of hits. But it is also an unsatisfying venture, as it duplicates all but one track from Deceptive Bends, then avoids any reference to the Godley/Creme era by confining the hits to Stewart and Gouldman compositions alone. That this includes one song previously valued no higher than a B-side ("Waterfall") is an advantage of this approach; unfortunately, you also realize just how straightforward and rocky the duo's writing could be, and Live and Let Live emerges less a document of a great live performance than a desperate résumé, the surviving bandmembers so intent upon proving their own worth that they forgot what made the band so special in the first place.

Review (Wikipedia) : Live and Let Live was 10cc's first live album, released in the Autumn of 1977. It was recorded at the Odeon Theatre in London between 18 and 20 June 1977 and the Apollo Theatre, Manchester between 16 and 17 July 1977. The album featured the new line-up of Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Rick Fenn, Paul Burgess and Stuart Tosh along with Tony O'Malley. Paul had toured with 10cc before, acting as second drummer to Kevin Godley, and also appeared on their first post-split album Deceptive Bends that was issued earlier that year. The main criticism at the time was that they only performed songs written by Stewart and Gouldman, missing out on big hits such as "Rubber Bullets", "Donna", "Life Is A Minestrone" and "The Dean and I". Also, the album replicated all but one of the songs from the previous album, which had only been out for 6 months. Despite this, the album was a hit, reaching No.14 in the UK charts. No singles were issued in the UK, however "The Wall Street Shuffle" was issued in America, but failed to reach the charts.