Artist: JUDAS PRIEST
Album: LIVE IN CONCERT 25TH JUNE 1980 (CD)

Release date: 2007
Media type: CD

There was a time when British Steel was the hottest, hardest, and most awesome substance on the planet. On Judas Priest Concert Classics, here it is, in its most appropriate circumstances: live, on stage. Judas Priest re-invented heavy metal. The first band to use the twin-guitar attack, they built on the foundation Black Sabbath had laid and moved metal to a new level. Looking back on the body of the work that the classic Priest line-up of Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, Ian Hill and Dave Holland has left us, nobody is in any doubt that the British Steel Album was the finest studio work the band produced. There are also those people who will tell you that British Steel was the finest British studio album ever made.

This album is taken from the tour that supported the release of British Steel and it takes the majesty of that album into its true context: in front of a paying audience.Sure, Priest could do the business in the studio – millions upon millions of album sales across the world cannot lie – but like any REAL band, on stage was where they truly felt at home, where they really came to life. So, not only had Priest just added the awesome British Steel to their armoury, they had five other exceptional albums to choose from when deciding what to put in the live set.

TRACKLIST:

01. Hell Bent For Leather
02. Ripper
03. Running Wild
04. Living After Midnight
05. Sinner
06. Beyond The Realms Of Death
07. You Don’t Have To Be Old To Be Wise
08. Grinder
09. Victim Of Changes
10. Steeler
11. Genocide
12. Tyrant
13. Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)

LINE-UP:

ROB HALFORD
K.K. DOWNING
GLENN TIPTON
IAN HILL
DAVE HOLLAND