Live on the Sunset Strip | |
Type: | Live |
Artist: | Richard Pryor |
Cover: | Richard Pryor Sunset Strip album.jpg |
Released: | March 24, 1982 |
Recorded: | 1981–1982 (see below) |
Genre: | Comedy |
Length: | 59:53 |
Label: | Warner Bros. |
Producer: | Richard Pryor, Biff Dawes |
Prev Year: | 1978 |
Next Year: | 1983 |
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip is the seventeenth album by American comedian Richard Pryor. Produced by Pryor and Biff Dawes, the album was released alongside the comedian's film of the same name in 1982. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980. The album later won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1982.