We’re easing ourselves in with Live at Leeds this weekend, an all-dayer at one of the nation’s most vibrant music scenes at an array of great venues across the city. We’ve got one, too.

The Great Escape takes place this weekend (more to come here on NME.com), but first, it was the turn of Live At Leeds to get the ball rolling, as venues across the city played hosts to some of the ...

Following the news that The Who are set to play Leeds again, in June 2006, we look at the background to one of rock's most famous albums - Live at Leeds.

If there was any doubt that the Who were one of the most ferocious live acts on the planet at the start of the ‘70s, Live at Leeds quashed it. They released the album on May 16, 1970.

And one listen to "Live at Leeds" is all the reminding you'll ever need. Now comes the super-duper, deluxe-schmeluxe reissue, which both complements and, in a way, betrays the original.

The Who's 1970 concert album 'Live at Leeds' is turning 50, and we spoke to their sound engineer Bob Pridden about creating it.

He was asked to take pictures at the Leeds gig, and one at Hull the next day, for a £50 fee, despite having no experience of live music photography. "There was not much of a stage at Leeds but I ...

We now come to the 2010 release, Live At Leeds (Super Deluxe Edition). It is a massive four CD, one vinyl LP, one seven inch vinyl 45 with picture sleeve, plus a coffee table type book with a ...

The Live At Leeds album captured the band at the peak of their powers and has since garnered near mythical status among rock music aficionados. The Who's frontman Roger Daltrey on stage in Leeds ...

So a digital-promotional copy of The Who’s Live at Leeds 40th Anniversary release doesn’t really do the whole shebang much justice, not when you consider it contains two CDs encompassing the full ...

The 1970 album Live at Leeds, by the Who, captured the band at the peak of its power. Branded 'maximum R'n'B' the music captivated thousands of lucky Loiners at Leeds University refectory on ...