Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip explained

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.

Track listing

  1. "Women" – 11:24
  2. "Prison" – 6:25
  3. "Africa" – 10:33
  4. "Mafia Club" – 6:04
  5. "Mudbone" – 7:38 from Tupelo, Mississippi
  6. "Freebase" – 8:12
  7. "Hospital" – 10:17

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