Living Ornaments '80

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 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". An expanded and remastered version of Living Ornaments '80 was reissued on a double CD in 2005. When Living Ornaments '79 was reissued in expanded/remastered form in 1998, an expanded version of Living Ornaments '80 was planned for release at the same time. However, the multitrack tapes of the full concert from which the original album's ten tracks were culled had been lost. It was therefore decided to release, for the first time, Living Ornaments '81, a 2CD concert recording of Numan's "farewell show" at Wembley Arena in April 1981. 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.

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