Live in London

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The double album Live in London is the second live album – and the seventh album overall – by the American gospel group Andraé Crouch & The Disciples, released on Light Records in 1978. The album won a Grammy in the Best Soul Performance, Contemporary category at the 21th Annual Grammy Awards.

Live In London was the final album by Andraé Crouch featuring The Disciples. From now on Crouch focused on his solo career. He got to record for mainstream labels like Elektra and Warner Bros. and turned out sparkling, high-budget albums – 1979’s I’ll Be Thinking Of You being the first – with elements of disco, progressive jazz, soft rock and R&B. In August 1980 Crouch officially disbanded The Disciples.

My favorite Andrae Crouch album was Live in London, which boasted an extraordinary (for the time) cover — an air-brushed Mothership-sized piano, hovering above the United Kingdom, with the LP title and band name emblazoned in lights. I loved it. Controversial, ambitious, aggressive, Live in London featured old-school gospel, rock, R&B, even praise and worship. I played it as often as I played my Black Sabbath and Wilson Pickett LPs. Today, numerous gospel artists still praise Live in London as the most influential piece of vinyl from their past. It is certainly hard to imagine a Kirk Franklin or a Tye Tribbett without a Live from London. [Robert Darden – former gospel music editor for Billboard Magazine, Christianity Today Jan 2015]

I entered the ball on New Year’s Day feeling as out of place as a Jew at a National Front rally, but I left feeling blessed. Anyone who can do that, in those conditions, has got to be a a special kind of witness, and that’s what Andrae Crouch and the Disciples are – something really special. [Karl Dallas, Melody Maker Magazine]

As a religious event this gospel invasion of the Odeon was a triumph, purely on a musical level it was superb in parts and rarely less than entertaining the rest of the time. I wasn’t saved but I’d be more than willing to take a second course of instruction. [Cliff White, NME Magazine]

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2LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. Introduction – 0:28
A2. “Perfect Peace” – 4:30
A3. “I Surrender All” – 4:12
A4. Greetings By Andrae – 0:39
A5. “You Don’t Have To Jump No Pews” – 3:40
A6. “Take A Little Time” – 6:20

Side Two
B1. “Tell Them” – 3:34
B2. “If I Was A Tree (The Highest Praise)” – 4:55
B3. “Hallelujah” – 2:15
B4. “Revive Us Again” – 2:02
B5. “Power In The Blood” – 4:40
B6. “Reprise” – 0:42

Side Three
C1. “I Just Want To Know You” – 6:17
C2. Andrae Talking – 1:17
C3. “Just Like He Said He Would” – 6:00
C4. Andrae Talking – 0:47
C5. “I’ll Keep On Loving You Lord” – 3:37
C6. “You Gave To Me” – 3:33

Side Four
D1. “Oh Taste And See” – 1:30
D2. “Praise God, Praise God” – 2:46
D3. “This Is Another Day” – 5:51
D4. Andrae Talking – 1:20
D5. “Praise God Reprise” – 1:35
D6. “Well Done” – 5:30
D7. “My Tribute” – 1:53

Note: Simultaneously released on 8-track tape, cassette, and 12-inch vinyl double LP (housed in a gatefold sleeve) by Light Records. Later re-issued on CD.

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