Live in Europe (Otis Redding album)
Live in Europe is a live album from soul singer Otis Redding. It was Redding's first live album as well as the only live album released during his lifetime, issued exactly five months before his death on December 10, 1967. The album was recorded during the Stax/Volt tour of Europe and Redding is backed by Booker T. & the MG's. Recorded at the Olympia Theatre, Paris; March 21, 1967. The album is currently available on compact disc, digitally remastered by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch as part of the Atlantic & Atco Remasters  Series done on Rhino Records. Alternately, seven of its ten tracks appear as bonus tracks to the 2008 reissue of "Otis Blue" or the 2016 reissue of "", also on Rhino. Critical reception and legacy. In a 1969 piece called "A Short and Happy History of Rock", published by "Stereo Review", Robert Christgau selected "Live in Europe" as a representative Redding LP in his basic rock "library" of 25 albums. He went on to write of Redding and the album in the context of rock history: However, Christgau's later appraisals of the album have ranged from it "captur[ing] a sensitive  soul man at his toughest and most outgoing" to it being "among [Redding's] worst" due to "too many concessions to an English audience that wanted fast rock and roll songs". In 2003, "Live in Europe" was ranked number 474 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.