''Live Performance'' is a live album by

Jake Thackray John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet, humourist and journalist. Best known in the late 1960s and early 1970s for his topical comedy songs performed on British television, hi ...

. Recorded at the

Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts European classical music, classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by ...

in London in 1970, it was released on LP by

EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...

in 1971 and reissued in 1976. An expanded version was released on CD in 2006. Thackray was uncomfortable performing in large venues, and his

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

left-wing politics meant he could not understand why people would pay money to see him perform. He almost backed out of this concert, feeling he had no right to entertain such a large crowd, but producer

Norman Newell Norman Newell (25 January 1919 – 1 December 2004) was an English record producer and lyricist, who was mainly active in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the co-writer of many notable songs. As an A&R manager for EMI, he worked with musicia ...

managed to persuade him to go on. This wasn’t the last time this would happen; before a concert in 1977, Thackray’s agent Alex Armitage allegedly intercepted Thackray already in his car leaving the venue.Spencer Leigh
Jake Thackray obituary
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'', 28 December 2002, accessed 17 March 2009

LP track listing

CD track listing

References

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External links

LP Track listing and sleeve notes at jakethackray.com
Jake Thackray albums 1971 live albums EMI Records live albums Albums produced by Norman Newell