Personnel: Rob Halford (vocals); Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing (guitar); Ian Hill (bass); Dave Holland (drums).

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Judas Priest: Rob Halford (vocals); Glen Tipton (guitar, background vocals); K.K. Downing (guitar); Ian Hill (bass); Les Binks (drums).

Producers: Dennis MacKay, James Guthrie, Judas Priest.

Engineers include: Neil Ross, Ken Thomas, Paul Northfield.

Principally recorded at Chipping Norton Studios, Cotswold, England in 1978. Includes liner notes by Judas Priest.

Digitally remastered by Jon Astley.

Personnel: Rob Halford (vocals); Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing (guitar); Ian Hill (bass guitar); Dave Holland (drums).

Audio Remasterer: Jon Astley.

Liner Note Author: Judas Priest.

Photographer: Neil Zlozower.

Culled from performances on their mammoth 1986 TURBO tour, Judas Priest's second live album, PRIEST...LIVE! was issued one year later. Including some post-BRITISH STEEL songs, PRIEST...LIVE! doesn't quite measure up to their outstanding earlier live album, 1979's UNLEASHED IN THE EAST, but it has its moments.

Unsurprisingly, plenty of selections from the TURBO album are featured, such as "Out in the Cold," "Turbo Lover," and "Parental Guidance," but "Hot Rockin'," "Don't Go," and several '80s Priest classics are noticeably absent. Still, you can't go wrong with inspired versions of such favorites as "Love Bites," "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll," "Electric Eye," "Living After Midnight," and "You've Got Another Thing Coming."

After the stunning success of 1977's SIN AFTER SIN, Judas Priest offered another exceptional album with its follow-up one year later, STAINED CLASS. Though disco and punk were grabbing all the headlines in the late '70s, Priest turned a deaf ear to these new musical developments, and stuck to its heavy metal guns. Rarely has metal sounded so inspired and precise as this album's highlights, "Beyond the Realms of Death," "Better By You Better Than Me," and "Exciter." STAINED CLASS was Judas Priest's third classic release in a row.

Judas Priest's first live album, Unleashed in the East, was a powerhouse, but Priest...Live! is a sad, lackluster document of an aging heavy metal band desperately trying to hold onto its glory days. No matter how hard it tried, the group could not hide the fact that its power was declining rapidly. [The 2002 Columbia/Legacy reissue adds three bonus tracks -- "Screaming for Vengeance," "Rock Hard, Ride Free," and "Hell Bent for Leather" -- and breaks up the album into two discs.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Judas Priest's first live album, Unleashed in the East, was a powerhouse, but Priest...Live! is a document of a heavy metal band trying to hold onto its glory days. [The 2002 Columbia/Legacy reissue adds three bonus tracks -- "Screaming for Vengeance," "Rock Hard, Ride Free," and "Hell Bent for Leather" -- and breaks up the album into two discs.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Q (4/02, p.134) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...Reassuring evidence that the band hadn't lost their live presence..."