''Strung Up'' is a double live/compilation album by English

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released by

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in 1975. The first disc contains seven songs recorded live during a concert at the

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on 21 December 1973. The second one contains ten selections of their songs recorded since 1973, including three songs that have not been released previously on any album, ("Burn On the Flame" and "Miss Demeanour") but only one ("I Wanna Be Committed") is brand new. The album also includes a unique mix of "Action" that comes to an abrupt end, and does not include the final decaying echo of the shorter single and longer '' Give Us a Wink'' album versions. ''Strung Up'' was not originally released in the

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it was released by

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under the title ''Anthology''. In Italy it was released as two separate albums - the studio set entitled ''Strung Up'' (released 1975) and the live set entitled ''Live In England'' (1976). Until the 2016 rerelease, the album had been re-issued on CD only in the United States in 1997 on Chinebridge Records and in Japan (as ''Anthology''). These releases include the standard album version of "Action". In 1999, RCA released a CD entitled '' Live at the Rainbow 1973'' that contains the concert from the original album in its entire length. However this version is in mono, while the abbreviated version from ''Strung Up'' is in stereo. In 2016, the CD release had all original tracks plus "Ballroom Blitz", " Teenage Rampage" and "Blockbuster" added to the live set and "The Lies in Your Eyes", "Fever of Love", "Teenage Rampage", "Hell Raiser" and an extended version of "I Wanna Be Committed" added to the studio set. The live tracks on this release are taken from the mono recording, and none of the stereo live mixes were used.

Track listing

References

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