release date: Mar. 1983
format: vinyl (Mini LP - 2335 269)
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Rhett Davies & Roxy Music
label: EG / Polydor - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: B) 1. "Like a Hurricane" (other version) - 2. "Jealous Guy" (other version)
Live ep, or as stated on the front cover sticker: Live Mini LP containing 4 tracks with a total running time of 26 mins. was recorded live at the Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland, Sep. 30, 1982 during the band's Avalon Tour.
The two strongest tracks - for which the album is almost essential - are the two cover-versions on the B-side: a nearly 8 mins. powerful version of Neil Young's majestic "Like a Hurricane" - in itself by Young a fantastic composition, and Roxy Music do fine justice to the intensity of the song, and then the more than 6½ mins. cover of John Lennon's likewise classic "Jealous Guy" - two songs Roxy Music would often have on its set-list at concerts throughout the 80s.
The album has never been released in digital format but the same recordings have found their way to the lengthier live album Heart Still Beating (1990), which contains 14 tracks. Also, the abovementioned two covers have been produced and released on other releases but I think these two versions are some of the best renditions of these classics, which makes this very release such a solid one.