| Live on Blueberry Hill | |
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| Live album by Led Zeppelin | |
| Released | 1970 |
| Recorded | Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, California, September 4, 1970. |
| Genre | Bootleg recording |
| Length | 106:53 |
| Label | Trademark of Quality |
| Producer | N/A |
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| Allmusic | [1] |
Live on Blueberry Hill (also known as Blueberry Hill) is a bootleg recording of the English rock group Led Zeppelin's performance at the Los Angeles Forum on September 4, 1970, which took place during their Summer 1970 North American Tour.[2]
The audience recording is well known for being one of the first ever Led Zeppelin bootlegs, and indeed one of the first ever rock and roll bootlegs ever released. It was initially released on the Blimp label.[3] The album was subsequently pressed on the Trade Mark of Quality label and shipped to England. The album sold so many copies that many fans initially thought it was a legal record.[4] The sleeve notes described it as "One hundred and six minutes and fifty three seconds of pure alive rock."[5]
Live on Blueberry Hill derived its name from the fact that at this concert Led Zeppelin performed Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" as a final encore. The bootleg also features one of the few known live performances of "Out on the Tiles", a track from the group's third album.[4][5] It also features "Bron-Yr-Aur", a song that wouldn't be released officially until five years later, on Physical Graffiti.
From the 1980s the bootleg became available on CD as a 2-disc set, often under the alternative titles Blueberry Hill and The Final Statements.[4]
Led Zeppelin parody cover band Dread Zeppelin released an album in 1995 entitled Live on Blueberry Cheesecake as a play on words of this bootleg release.
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