| Gong est Mort, Vive Gong | |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Gong |
| Cover: | Gong_Gong_Est_Mort.jpg |
| Released: | September 1977 |
| Recorded: | 28 May 1977 Hippodrome, Paris, France |
| Length: | 76:00 |
| Label: | Tapioca Records |
| Prev Title: | Shamal |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | Gong Live Etc |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
Gong est Mort, Vive Gong (translated as "Gong Is Dead, Long Live Gong") is a double live album by the progressive rock group Gong, recorded on 28 May 1977 at the Hippodrome, Paris, France, and originally released in 1977 as a double LP by Tapioca Records, France.[1]
Gong appeared as the headlining act in a 24-hour marathon festival which also included sets by Tim Blake, Lady June, Strontium 90, Steve Hillage, "Shamal Gong", "Gong-Expresso" and Daevid Allen & Euterpe.[2] The poster advertising the event can be seen in the photo collage included in the album Gong Live Etc, also released in 1977.
The Gong lineup was a reunion of the Angel's Egg/You-era band, featuring the return of Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, who had left in 1975 and so were not part of the then-current Gong-Expresso (which would eventually change its name to Pierre Moerlen's Gong).
Their set included most of the music from four albums - Camembert Electrique and the three albums of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy - therefore this album documents less than half of the performance and some songs are absent or incomplete. Many are slightly renamed from their original titles.