1972 live albums

Hot August Night is a 1972 live double album by Neil Diamond. ("Hot August night" is also the opening lyric to Diamond's 1969 single, "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show".) The album is a recording of a Diamond concert on August 24, 1972, one of ten sold out concerts that Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls Hot August Night "the ultimate Neil Diamond record ... shows Diamond the icon in full glory."

Johnny Mathis in Person: Recorded Live at Las Vegas is a live album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was recorded at Caesar's Palace and released in the winter of 1972 by Columbia Records. All but five of the 23 songs performed had appeared on his studio albums, while the five previously unrecorded songs (described below) have not appeared on a Mathis studio album since. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated February 5, 1972, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 128.

Jazz Blues Fusion is a Live album by John Mayall, the first side is from a gig in Boston on 18th November 1971, and the second side was selected from two concerts at Hunter College, New York on 3rd and 4th December 1971.

Live at the Paramount was the first live album released by Canadian rock group, The Guess Who. It would be their only live album until their reunion in 1984. It was recorded live on May 22, 1972 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. The 2000 re-release included bonus tracks from the same show which were not included on the original pressing like "These Eyes" and "No Time".

Melba Moore Live is the third album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1972. This album was recorded live at the New York Philharmonic Hall on November 7, 1971

In Concert is a live album by Janis Joplin. It was released in 1972 after Joplin's death as a double-LP. The first record contains performances with Big Brother and the Holding Company, recorded at various locations in 1968 and 1970, and the second with the Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Eat a Peach is the third studio album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. Produced by Tom Dowd, the album was released on February 12, 1972, in the United States by Capricorn Records. Following their artistic and commercial breakthrough with the release of the live album At Fillmore East (1971), the Allman Brothers Band got to work on their third studio album. Many in the band were struggling, however, with heroin addictions, and checked into rehab to confront these problems. Shortly after leaving rehab, group leader and founder Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in the band's home of Macon, Georgia thus making it the final album to feature the guitarist.

The Isleys Live is a live album released by The Isley Brothers in 1973 on T-Neck Records as a double album with the catalog number TNS 3010-2. Recorded at the Bitter End in New York City, the band are introduced as T Neck recording artists before they take the stage. Two decades later, Rhino Records re-issued the album including three live dates from the brothers' 1969 show at Yankee Stadium. This album is the only T-Neck recording not reissued by Sony Music Entertainment; instead it was reissued by Rhino Records.

BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a live album by rock band Nazareth, recorded in 1972. All of these tracks were re-released as part of Back to the Trenches album in 2001.

Live Cream Volume II is the second live compilation album British supergroup Cream released in March 1972 by Polydor Records (Atco Records in the U.S.). This album contains six tracks recorded at various performances from March 9 to October 4, 1968.