Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are amongst the biggest and most commercially successful folk rock bands. Their career, spanning over 50 years, has seen them achieve 4 Top 40 albums and 2 Top 20 singles as well as countless sold out live shows. Through an everchanging line up, their popularity has continued to this day.

This 2LP release is the first time this album has appeared on vinyl and is released on red vinyl. The concert is taken from the 12CD box set covering the band's Chrysalis albums from 1972 to 1983 and marks the first time that this concert was released. It features the band at the height of their powers playing to a sold out audience at London’s Rainbow Theatre in November 1974 in support of the “Now We Are Six” album release. Included are many Steeleye classics such as the top 20 single “Gaudete” and “Thomas the Rhymer” The band undertake a 7 date UK tour starting October 4th.

Steeleye Span are amongst the biggest and most commercially successful folk rock bands. Their career, spanning over 50 years, has seen them achieve 4 Top 40 albums and 2 Top 20 singles as well as countless sold out live shows. Through an ever changing line up, their popularity has continued to this day. This remastered collection brings together their recordings over an 11 year tenure with Chrysalis Records covering the years 1972-1983. Housed in a clamshell box with a 56 page perfect bound book, there are 145 tracks, (46 unreleased) over 12 CDs include a number of unreleased studio tracks including an expanded version of New York Girls (featuring Peter Sellers) , a studio take of The Devil’s Dream, 3 previously unavailable additional live tracks from the "Live At Last” album, an Australian only live album, as well as 2 completely new live concerts from The Rainbow Theatre in London from 1974 and the Boston Berklee Performance Centre from 1976. The Rainbow show in particular has been the subject of much speculation with a small selection of tracks appearing on various low quality bootlegs over the years. The band are undertaking a (delayed) 50 year celebratory UK tour with 17 dates in May and a further 7 dates in October.