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Live is the second live album by the English hard rock band Thunder and the first released outside of Japan. Recorded over four shows in November 1997 at Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton and Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, it was produced by the band's lead guitarist Luke Morley and engineered and mixed by Mike Fraser. It was released by Eagle Rock Entertainment on 16 February 1998. An accompanying video was released by Eagle Vision on 28 March 1998. Following the departure of Mikael "Micke" Höglund in 1996, Live is the first release by Thunder with the bass guitarist Chris Childs. It is also the band's first release on the Eagle label, with whom they signed in November 1997. The album includes songs from all four of the band's studio albums released up to that point, as well as a number of cover versions. Live reached number 35 on the UK Albums Chart, while the video album reached number 10 on the UK Music Video Chart. Live was promoted on its own concert tour which began with shows across Europe on 3 March 1998, with a leg of UK performances in May and June, followed by a run of Japanese dates in June and early July. The band also supported Status Quo on a European tour in April. "The Only One" was released as a single with a studio recording of the song on 26 January 1998, reaching number 31 on the UK Singles Chart and number 38 on the Scottish Singles Chart. Background and recording After three "warm-up shows" in Belgium and the Netherlands, Thunder recorded Live on 12 and 13 November 1997 at Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton, and 15 and 16 November 1997 at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. On 26 January 1998, the band released the single "The Only One", which included a disc featuring four tracks from the album's live recordings. The single reached number 31 on the UK Singles Chart and number 38 on the Scottish Singles Chart. The album was released in the UK on 16 February 1998, debuting at number 35 on the UK Albums Chart, number 75 on the Scottish Albums Chart, and number 1 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. The album was released in Japan five days later, featuring bonus tracks "Pilot of My Dreams", "Everybody Wants Her" and "Stand Up".

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“Thank you life, I don't know anything about you. When I found all the questions, all the answers were lost to me.~~ March 8, 2025”
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“Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years," using the word pilgrimage in reference to life on earth, which the pious regard as a temporary sojourn in alien lands.”
— Louis Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews (1909)
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it.”
— Anaïs Nin, entry for February 1954, in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38.
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— Henry J. Tillman, as quoted in In Your 60s (2009) by Judy Valon, Wakefield Press; and in Pathological Altruism (2012), edited by Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan, and David Sloan Wilson, Oxford University Press
“Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
— Isidore of Seville
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 6, conclusion (vol. 2 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau), p. 170 (1906, reprinted 1968). Originally published in 1854.

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