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LIVE AND HEAVY NEL 6020 [Live versions of the most well known songs by Deep Purple, Nazareth, Motorhead, Def Leppard, Rainbow, Status Quo, Whitesnake, UFO, Gillan, Black Sabbath Be careful, this 1981 record is rare.

A1 Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water
A2 Nazareth – Razamanaz
A3 Motorhead – White Line Fever
A4 Def Leppard – Rocks Off
A5 Rainbow – All Night Long

B1 Status Quo – Roll Over Lay Down
B2 Whitesnake – Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City
B3 UFO – Lights Out in London
B4 Gillan – Unchain Your Brain
B5 Black Sabbath – Paranoid

One of the 80’s heavy metal compilations that changed our world

Welcome to the only genre of music with more skeletons than a busy morgue. And the dude on the cover my end up there too, if he doesn’t move his ears away from those mighty speakers that blast, well, what else? Heavy Fucking Metal! No wonder, this album is so ‘live’ and so ‘heavy’ that listening to it at full volume would reduced the listener to weeping tears of real blood.

Seeing as this was 1981 and a whole new audience of rock fans had missed out on Deep Purple, the inclusion of their Made in Japan version of Smoke on the Water was a welcome touch. Rocks Off by Def Leppard wasn’t really live but featured some cheering, and it was nice to see Cozy Powell’s swan song with Rainbow, a live version of All Night Long recorded at the 1980 Monsters of Rock jamboree at Donington. This performance featured Graham Bonnet performing a bemusing whistling routine. “Just call me Percy Edwards,” he joked with the crowd, hilariously, at one point, as he tried – and failed – to cajole the watching hordes to whistle along. Oh well…..

Released as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWoBHM) movement was taking charge, Live and Heavy captures the old guard, sans the up ‘n’ coming Def Leppard, pounding it from the stage before the denim and leather clad punters. The riveting recording pays tribute to the heavy hitters from the U.K. scene during the turbulent dazed ‘n’ confused decade.

The ten song compilation from 1981 opens with authority as Deep Purple legendary “”Smoke on the Water”” is featured. Fueled by Ritchie Blackmore time honored riff, “”Smoke on the Water”” accounted for countless long hair teens taking to the electric guitar. Had Deep Purple never recorded another song together, the group should have been granted Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame status for the ass kickin’ “”Smoke on the Water””. For some unexplained reason, D.P. remains on the outside lookin’ in, while those that call the shots at the R ‘n’ R Hall of Fame continue to induct artists that pale in comparison to mighty Purple.

Building on the momentum of the strong intro track, Nazareth raging “”Razamanaz”” follows with the tightly-wound Scottish group laying it down with conviction, while Lemmy and the greasy Motorhead gang add the foot-to-the-floor “”White Line Fever””. Def Lep “”Rocks Off”” showcases the young ‘n’ hungry Sheffield five when they were dead set on pounding out straight-up hard stuff. Who could possibly foresee the sellout coming from the high ‘n’ dry boys based on their first two studio recordings? It back to the moody man in black, as Ritchie Blackmore brings side one of Live and Heavy to a close, as the introverted guitarist commands Rainbow through the scorching “”All Night Long””.

Side two commences with no-nonsence, heads down, working man boogie via “”Roll Over Lay Down””, from the three-chord riff machine known as Status Quo. The pace slows with the cool, blues rock groove of Whitesnake “”Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City””. Throughout th Whitesnake charmer track, cocksure front man David Coverdale vocal performance is spot on.

UFO rampant “”Lights Out”” once again picks up the pace, as the high flyers, featuring dynamic German guitarist Michael Schenker, let loose with a hard edged onslaught of metallic rock. One more branch from the ever-expanding Deep Purple family tree is represented as Ian Gillan “”Unchain Your Brain”” is added to the collection. Anchoring the LP, the doom laden Birmingham beast, Black Sabbath, check in with a muddy recording of “”Paranoid””.