Live in the U.K. explained

Live in the U.K.
Type:Live album
Artist:Helloween
Cover:LiveInTheUK.jpg
Released:Europe\USA 6 April 1989
Japan 5 October 1989
Recorded:November 1988
Genre:Power metal
Length:49:44
Label:Noise
Producer:Tommy Hansen
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Next Year:1991

Live in the U.K. is the first live album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1989. It was released in Japan as Keepers Live. In the United States, it was released as I Want Out – Live without the track "Rise and Fall", and with a shorter edit of the introduction.

All tracks recorded in Edinburgh Playhouse, Scotland, by Manor Mobile on 6 November 1988 except "I Want Out" recorded in Manchester Apollo, England, 7 November 1988.

This is Helloween's only official live album with drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg, and the only one recorded with vocalist Michael Kiske and guitarist Kai Hansen (who had left the band a few months earlier), until the release of United Alive in Madrid in 2019.

Album cover

For the first time, the "o" in the "Helloween" logo was not represented by a pumpkin. On I Want Out - Live, it was represented by a globe showing portions of Western Europe, Central Europe, and the British Isles. On Live in the U.K. it is instead drawn as a pumpkin logo on a bass drum.

Cover Artwork by Frederick Moulaert.

Track listing

* 4:17 on I Want Out – Live issue

# absent on I Want Out – Live issue

On Future World, Kiske briefly sings a part from All Shook Up from Elvis Presley.

Credits

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1989)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[1] 4
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[2] 23

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pennanen, Timo. Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972. 1st. Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. Helsinki. 2006. 978-951-1-21053-5 . fi.
  2. Web site: Helloween - Live in the U.K. (Japanese Charts) . oricon.co.jp . 2 September 2013.
  3. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. de. GfK Entertainment. offiziellecharts.de. 17 February 2022.