Living Ornaments '79
| Living Ornaments '79 | ||||
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| Released | 24 April 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 28 September 1979 | |||
| Venue | Hammersmith Odeon, London | |||
| Genre | New wave, synthpop | |||
| Length | 71:10 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet Records | |||
| Producer | Gary Numan | |||
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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).