Live at Hollywood High
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Live at Hollywood High is a recording by Elvis Costello and the Attractions from a 1978 concert at Hollywood High School
Hollywood High School
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 in Los Angeles
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, California
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. Three songs from the concert were originally included as a bonus 7" vinyl EP that sold with initial pressings of the Armed Forces album in 1979. A 2002 re-issue of Armed Forces added six tracks to the three from the EP (for a total of nine tracks) and placed them in proper running order. In 2010, the Hip-O Select label released a full version of Live At Hollywood High with all 20 tracks from the concert on one CD.

This release followed three earlier concert releases from Elvis Costello, including:
  • Nashville Rooms (London, England), recorded on August 7, 1977, which was included as a bonus CD on the 2007 deluxe edition of My Aim Is True
    My Aim Is True
    My Aim Is True is the debut album by Elvis Costello.The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Holloway, London Borough of Islington, over the course of 1976 during late-night studio sessions, in a total of twenty-four hours...

    (1977).

  • Warner Theatre (Washington, DC), recorded on February 28, 1978, which was included on the deluxe edition of This Year's Model
    This Year's Model
    This Year's Model is Elvis Costello's second album and his first with The Attractions, released in 1978 . It was recorded mainly at Eden Studios in West London....

    (1978).

  • El Mocambo (Toronto, Ontario), recorded on March 6, 1978, which was released by CBS as a promotional LP in Canada and re-released in 1993 as one of four CD's on the 2½ Years
    2 1/2 Years
    2½ Years is a 1993 box set by Elvis Costello. The Rykodisc Costello reissues was ultimately to include his eleven studio albums released from 1977 to 1991 on Columbia and Stiff Records, Radar Records, F-Beat Records and Demon Records plus a reissue of the G.B.H...

    box set. It was later given a stand alone release as The Costello Show: Live at the El Mocambo
    Live at the El Mocambo (Elvis Costello album)
    Live at the El Mocambo is a 1993 live album by Elvis Costello and The Attractions. Recorded in March 1978 and released only as a Canadian promotional album in the same year, it was heavily bootlegged...

    in 2009. The original vinyl LP and CD re-releases of this concert all contain the same songs.

Track listing

  1. Accidents Will Happen 3:29
  2. Mystery Dance 2:02
  3. Lip Service 2:44
  4. Living In Paradise 3:31
  5. Goon Squad 3:49
  6. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 2:33
  7. Party Girl 2:57
  8. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 4:40
  9. This Year's Girl 3:46
  10. No Action 2:08
  11. Stranger In The House 4:02
  12. The Beat 3:37
  13. Alison 3:05
  14. Lipstick Vogue 4:18
  15. Watching The Detectives 5:59
  16. You Belong To Me 2:39
  17. Radio, Radio 2:29
  18. Pump It Up 4:02
  19. Waiting For The End Of The World 4:32
  20. Miracle Man 5:05

Personnel

  • Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

     – Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
  • Steve Nieve
    Steve Nieve
    Steve Nieve is an English keyboardist, best known for his work with Elvis Costello and the Attractions and Elvis Costello and the Imposters.-Musical career:...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Bruce Thomas
    Bruce Thomas
    Bruce Thomas is best known as bassist for The Attractions; the band formed in 1977 to back Elvis Costello in concert and on record....

     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Pete Thomas
    Pete Thomas
    Pete Thomas is best known as the longtime drummer for Elvis Costello. Tom Waits has referred to him as "one of the best rock drummers alive".-Career:...

     – drum
    Drum
    The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

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