Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

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Live on the Sunset Strip
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Live album by
ReleasedMarch 24, 1982
Recorded1981–1982 (see below)
Genre Comedy
Length59:53
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Richard Pryor, Biff Dawes
Richard Pryor chronology
Wanted: Live in Concert
(1978)
Live on the Sunset Strip
(1982)
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
(1983)
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip is the seventeenth album by American comedian Richard Pryor. Produced by Pryor and Biff Dawes, the album was released alongside the comedian's film of the same name in 1982. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980. The album later won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1982.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Women" – 11:24
  2. "Prison" – 6:25
  3. "Africa" – 10:33
  4. "Mafia Club" – 6:04
  5. "Mudbone" – 7:38
  6. "Freebase" – 8:12
  7. "Hospital" – 10:17

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