Living Ornaments '79

Living Ornaments '79
Live album by
Released24 April 1981
Recorded28 September 1979
VenueHammersmith Odeon, London
GenreNew wave, synthpop
Length71:10
LabelBeggars Banquet Records
ProducerGary Numan
Gary Numan chronology
Telekon
(1980)
Living Ornaments '79
(1981)
Living Ornaments '80
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Release Magazine

Living Ornaments '79 (1981) is a live album by British musician Gary Numan, released in 1981 by Beggars Banquet Records. The album was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 28 September 1979. In 1981, it was re-released as a limited edition box set with Living Ornaments '80. An expanded 21-track version was reissued on a double CD in 1998 before a remastered version was again reissued in 2005. The nine tracks of the original Living Ornaments '79 were included on 1979: The Live EPs, a disc available to those who bought the expanded, 2-disc version of The Pleasure Principle from Numan's website in 2009.

Living Ornaments '79 is one of two official live albums from Numan's 1979-1980 tour (billed as "The Touring Principle"), and is a record of the tour's first leg. In 2008, Numan's record label released Engineers, recorded during the tour's final leg (May 1980).