Living Ornaments '79

Living Ornaments '79
Live album by
ReleasedApril 1981
RecordedHammersmith Odeon, London, 28 September 1979
GenreNew wave, synthpop
Length71:10
LabelBeggars Banquet Records
ProducerGary Numan
Gary Numan chronology
Telekon
(1980)
Living Ornaments '79
(1981)
Living Ornaments '80
(1981)
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Living Ornaments '79 (1981) is a live album by British musician Gary Numan recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 28 September 1979. It was also released as a limited edition box set with Living Ornaments '80 (1981). An expanded (21-track) version was reissued on a double CD in 1998 before a remastered version was again reissued in 2005. The nine tracks of the original Living Ornaments '79 were included on 1979: The Live EPs, a disc available to those who bought the expanded, 2-disc version of The Pleasure Principle from Numan's website in 2009.

Living Ornaments '79 is one of two official live albums from Numan's 1979-1980 tour (billed as "The Touring Principle"), and is a record of the tour's first leg. In 2008, Numan's record label released Engineers, recorded during the tour's final leg (May 1980).