Gary Numan – Living Ornaments '80 (1981/2005) [Complete 2xCD] Europe

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Living Ornaments '80 is a live album by British musician Gary Numan, first released in 1981. It was also issued as a limited edition box set with Living Ornaments '79 (as Living Ornaments '79 and '80) the same year. The original Living Ornaments '80 was a condensed version of a concert recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 16 September 1980, as a record of Numan's "Teletour" (September–November 1980).

An expanded edition of Living Ornaments '80 eventuated in 2005 when a mono mixing console recording of a complete song set from another 1980 UK concert was discovered in 2004 and deemed to be of sufficient quality to release commercially. Although the venue and date of this set have not been confirmed, it is speculated to be the Newcastle City Hall on 29 September 1980, the last UK date of the Teletour before the American leg of the tour. The 29-track edition of Living Ornaments '80 released in 2005 contains the 10 tracks of the Hammersmith Odeon show followed by 19 tracks from the undated show.

The 2005 edition of Living Ornaments '80 included, at that time, the only official live recordings of the tracks "Telekon", from the album of the same name, and "Stories", from Numan's then-forthcoming Dance album (1981). A live version of "Telekon" has since appeared on the Telekon – Live album (2008), recorded during Numan's Telekon Classic Album Tour of 2006, although no further live versions of "Stories" have been officially released.

Tracklist:
CD-1
01 - This Wreckage 0:00
02 - I Die: You Die 5:42
03 - M.E. 9:34
04 - Everyday I Die 14:10
05 - Down In The Park 18:45
06 - Remind Me To Smile
07 - The Joy Circuit
08 - Tracks
09 - Are 'Friends' Electric? 37:16
10 - We Are Glass
11 - This Wreckage
12 - Remind Me To Smile
13 - Complex
14 - Telekon

CD-2
15 - Me! I Disconnect From You 1:04:08
16 - Cars
17 - Conversation
18 - Airlane
19 - M.E.
20 - Everyday I Die
21 - Remember I Was Vapour
22 - Stories
23 - Are 'Friends' Electric?
24 - The Joy Circuit
25 - I Die: You Die
26 - I Dream Of Wires
27 - Down In The Park
28 - Tracks 2:04:57
29 - We Are Glass 2:07:57

Personnel
Gary Numan – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, producer, mixer
Roger Mason – keyboards
Cedric Sharpley – drums
Chris Payne – keyboards, viola
Paul Gardiner – bass
Russell Bell – guitar, keyboards, percussion
Tim Summerhayes – engineer
Phil Thornalley – assistant engineer
Will Gosling – assistant mixer

Audio: 195 kbps 48.000 kHz

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