Greatest Hits Live (Strawbs album)

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Greatest Hits Live
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Live album by
Released1993 (1993)
Recorded1990 (1990)
Genre Progressive rock
Label Road Goes on Forever
Strawbs chronology
A Choice Selection of Strawbs
(1992)
Greatest Hits Live
(1993)
Heartbreak Hill
(1995)

Greatest Hits Live is a live album by English band Strawbs.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cut Like a Diamond" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk)
  2. "Something for Nothing" (Cousins, Cronk)
  3. "The Hangman and the Papist" (Cousins)
  4. "Ringing Down the Years" (Cousins)
  5. "Stormy Down" (Cousins)
  6. "Afraid to Let You Go" (Rod Demick, Richard Hudson, Brian Willoughby)
  7. "Grace Darling" (Cousins)
  8. "The River/Down by the Sea" (Cousins)
  9. "Lay Down" (Cousins)
  10. "Part of the Union" (Hudson, John Ford)
  11. "Hero and Heroine" (Cousins)

Personnel

Recording

Recorded in 1990 for Central TV's Bedrock series.

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United Kingdom 1993Road Goes on Forever CD RGDCD 015
1992Castle Music PicturesVHS video with extra tracksCMP 6077
2001Caroline 2 LimitedDVD (PAL) as "Classic Rock Legends"CRL0794

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