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| Live...in the Heart of the City | ||||
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 Cover art by Jeff Cummins | ||||
| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 3 November 1980[1] | |||
| Recorded | 23 November 1978 23 and 24 June 1980 | |||
| Venue | Hammersmith Odeon, London | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 80:22 | |||
| Label | Liberty/EMI (UK and Germany) Mirage/Atlantic (North America) Polydor (Japan) United Artists (Rest of the world) | |||
| Producer | Martin Birch | |||
| Whitesnake chronology | ||||
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| Live at Hammersmith cover | ||||
 1980 Japanese live LP. | ||||
| Singles from Live...in the Heart of the City | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Classic Rock |  [4] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 5/10[5] |
| MusicHound Rock | [6] |
Live...in the Heart of the City is a 1980 live album by English rock band Whitesnake. Originally released as a double-vinyl album, and double-play cassette, it utilises recordings made in 1978 and 1980. The album charted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart with Platinum certification,[7] and number 146 on the Billboard 200.[8] The Classic Rock magazine in 2011 and 2023 placed it among the best live albums ever.[9][10]
- ^ "BPI certifications for Whitesnake".
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 34.
- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Whitesnake – Live in the Heart of the City review". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ^ ""A superb document of, and tribute to, a brilliant band in its prime": Whitesnake: Live... in the Heart of the City Album Of The Week Club review". Classic Rock. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 411. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
- ^ Graff, Gary, ed. (1996), MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press, p. 728, ISBN 9780787610371
- ^ "Whitesnake – Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ "Live ... In The Heart Of The City Billboard Albums". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
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