Caught Live + 5

Infobox Album |
Name = Caught Live + 5
Type = Live Album
Artist = The Moody Blues


Released = June 1977
Recorded = Live: 12 December 1969 Studio: 1967-1968
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 75:32
Label = Threshold / Polydor
Producer = Tony Clarke
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wau06j4h71w0 link]
Last album = "This Is The Moody Blues" (1974)
This album = "Caught Live + 5" (1977)
Next album = "Octave" (1978)

"Caught Live + 5" is a 1977 Moody Blues double album consisting of a December 12, 1969 live show at the Royal Albert Hall and five previously unreleased studio recordings from the same time period. It is the only live album recording by the band from their classic era, although Mike Pinder's estate has released "The Lost Performance: Paris 1970" as a DVD in 2004.

The band have expressed their dissatisfaction with their performance that night, citing drug use that impaired their abilities, and as such, the release was desired more by London Records to promote what would become their reunion album "Octave" than by the band themselves. Nevertheless, the concert showcases the band's versatility on different instruments, and their ability to perform complex material from their first four albums in a live setting. "Gypsy" is the only representative of the contemporary album "To Our Children's Children's Children".

While "Caught Live + 5" managed to reach #26 during its U.S. chart run, it missed the UK listings completely, the first time an anomaly such as this had occurred for The Moody Blues since their 1965 debut "The Magnificent Moodies".

This is the first Moody Blues album since "Days of Future Passed" not to feature cover artork by Philip Travers. London instead utilized British art design group Hipgnosis.

Track listing

Tracks 1-14 are live. Tracks 15-19 are studio recordings.

#"Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" (Justin Hayward) – 4:03
#"The Sunset" (Mike Pinder) – 4:33
#"Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" (Ray Thomas) – 3:23
#"Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) – 5:39
#"Peak Hour" (John Lodge) – 5:13
#"Tuesday Afternoon" (Hayward) – 4:51
#"Are You Sitting Comfortably?" (Hayward, Thomas) – 4:21
#"The Dream" (Graeme Edge) – :58
#"Have You Heard (Part 1)" (Pinder) – 1:22
#"The Voyage" (Pinder) – 3:37
#"Have You Heard (Part 2)" (Pinder) – 2:33
#"Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) – 5:55
#"Legend of a Mind" (Thomas) – 7:05
#"Ride My See-Saw" (Lodge) – 4:28
#"Gimme a Little Somethin'" (Lodge) – 3:13
#"Please Think About It" (Pinder) – 3:41
#"Long Summer Days" (Hayward) – 3:12
#"King and Queen" (Hayward) – 3:52
#"What Am I Doing Here?" (Hayward) – 3:33