Live (Fleetwood Mac album)

Live
Live album by Fleetwood Mac
Released	5 December 1980
Recorded	17 October 1975 – 4 September 1980
Genre	Rock Hard rock
Length	91:06
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Richard Dashut Ken Caillat Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Tusk (1979) Live (1980) Mirage (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	C+[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Record Mirror	[4]

Live is a double live album released by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac on 5 December 1980.^[5] It was the first live album from the then-current line-up of the band, and the next would be The Dance from 1997. The album was certified gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in November 1981.^[6] A deluxe edition of the album was released on 9 April 2021.^[7]

Live consists of recordings taken primarily from the 1979–1980 Tusk Tour and a Buckingham Nicks track, "Don't Let Me Down Again", from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac Tour. The deluxe edition also includes a few recordings from the earlier Rumours Tour of 1977 and the later Mirage Tour of 1982. According to the liner notes, two songs were recorded at a Paris soundcheck and three at a performance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium "for an audience of friends and road crew".