Greatest Hits Live! (Lita Ford album)

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Greatest Hits Live!
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ReleasedMay 08, 2000
RecordedEMI Studios, Hollywood, California (studio recording)
Genre Glam metal, hard rock
Length67:09
Label Deadline/Cleopatra
Producer Lita Ford
Lita Ford chronology
Black
(1995)
Greatest Hits Live!
(2000)
Wicked Wonderland
(2009)

Greatest Hits Live! is the first live album released by American hard rock singer and guitarist Lita Ford. The first track of the album is a new song recorded at EMI Studios in Hollywood. The rest of the album was recorded in an unknown location in Southern California, probably during the Dangerous Curves tour. [1]

Contents

The album was re-issued in 2004 by Cleopatra Records with the title In Concert and again by Deadline Records in 2006 with the original title and a slightly different cover.

Track listing

  1. "Nobody's Child" (Lita Ford, Michael Dan Ehmig, Glen Burtnik) - 4:23
  2. "Larger Than Life" (Ehmig, Ford, Myron Grombacher) - 4:20
  3. "What Do You Know about Love" (Randy Cantor, Michael Caruso, Cal Curtis) – 3:59
  4. "Black Widow" (Ehmig, David Ezrin, Ford, Joe Taylor) - 3:47
  5. "Holy Man" (Ford, Ehmig) - 4:48
  6. "Can't Catch Me" (Ford, Ian Kilmister, Ezrin) - 4:13
  7. "Falling In and Out of Love" (Ford, Ezrin, Nikki Sixx) - 5:43
  8. "Bad Love" (Ford, Ehmig) - 4:53
  9. "The Ripper" (Ford, Ezrin) - 5:17
  10. "Close My Eyes Forever" (Ford, Ozzy Osbourne) - 5:27
  11. "Shot of Poison" (Ford, Jim Vallance, Grombacher) - 3:45
  12. "Hungry" (Ford, Ehmig) - 5:08
  13. "Kiss Me Deadly" (Mick Smiley) - 5:12
  14. "Rock Candy" (Sammy Hagar, Ronnie Montrose) - 6:14

Personnel

Studio band

Live band

Production

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References

  1. Greatest Hits Live! (CD Sleeve). Lita Ford. Marina Del Rey, California: Deadline Records. 2000.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)