Live at Leeds - Accolades

Accolades

Live at Leeds became a critical smash, with The New York Times acclaiming it as "the best live rock album ever made." Its reputation as such continues decades later with Q magazine putting it at the top of its 2006 list of the greatest live albums of all time. The album's reputation has become so lofty that the venue at which it was recorded, the University of Leeds refectory, has been named a national landmark in the UK, commemorated with a blue plaque. On 17th June, 2006, over 36 years after the original concert, the Who returned to perform at the refectory, at a gig organised by Andy Kershaw. Kershaw stated the gig was "among the most magnificent I have ever seen".