Double Albums Worth Remembering

Imagine going to your favorite record story and buying the latest album from that new cool band. You rushed home to put the needle on the LP, only to find that the album you bought has two LPs. There have been many ‘double-albums’ worth mentioning, but here are a few of the more memorable ‘Double Album’ memories.

In the classic rock 70s, two ‘double album’ benchmarks were reached. The first was Peter Frampton’s “Frampton Comes Alive,” released in January of 1976, while the second was Bob Seger’s “Live Bullet,” released in April of that same year. Frampton’s double album was taken from live performance in California and Pittsburgh, and contained three hit singles and the longest FM song length wise since Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in “Do you Feel the Way I do.” Seger and his management team saw the explosion of album sales in the Frampton double album release, quickly deciding their ‘live’ album had to contain two discs. The decision became a great one n that the ‘live’ double album of both stars was the zenith of record sales for each.

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