Live! Be in It

Live! Be in It
Live! Be in It
Live album by Skyhooks
Released	December 1978
Recorded	December 1975–July 1978
Venue	Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Festival Hall, Council Club Hotel, Commodore Hotel, Palais Theatre
Genre	Pop rock, glam rock
Length	72:24
Label	Mushroom Records
Producer	Greg Macainsh
Skyhooks chronology

Live! Be in It is the first live album by Australian rock band Skyhooks. It was released by Mushroom Records on cassette and vinyl in December 1978 in Australia and on CD in 1991.^[1] The live recordings are taken from various concerts around Melbourne from December 1975 to July 1978.^[2]^[3]

Track listing[]

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mercedes Ladies"	Greg Macainsh	3:41
2.	"Balwyn Calling"	Macainsh	4:52
3.	"Smartarse Songwriters"	Macainsh	5:20
4.	"Sitting in a Bar in Adelaide"	Macainsh	4:59

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"All My Friends Are Getting Married"	Macainsh	4:53
2.	"The Bruce Suite"	Macainsh	10:08
3.	"Kaboodleschnitzer Kommercials"	Imants "Freddie" Strauks	2:15

Side C
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wild in the Streets"	Garland Jeffreys	6:26
2.	"Do the Hook"	Macainsh	2:36
3.	"Why Dontcha All Get Fucked"	Macainsh	3:56
4.	"Brown Sugar"	Jagger/Richards	6:22

Side D
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bondage on the Boulevard"	Macainsh	3:51
2.	"Party to End All Parties"	Macainsh	3:27
3.	"Sex Is Not a Dirty Word"	Macainsh	4:38
4.	"Women in Uniform"	Macainsh	5:00

Charts[]

Chart (1978/79)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart^[4]	84

Personnel[]

Greg Macainsh – bass guitar, vocals, production
Steve Malpass – cover design, art direction (for Mushroom Art)
Freddy Kaboodleschnitzer – drums, vocals
Bob Spencer – guitar, vocals (tracks 1–5, 7–15)
Bongo Starr – guitar, vocals (track 6)
Red Symons – guitar, vocals (track 6)
Michael Gudinski – management (for Worldwide Management)
Merry Took – percussion (track 6)
David Parker – cover photography
Bob King – liner bag photography
David Parker – liner bag photography
Danny Robinson – vocals (track 6)
Shirley Strachan – vocals

References[]

^ "Skyhooks - Live Be In It (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
^ "Skyhooks - Live Be in it (LP)". Discogs. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
^ "Live! Be in It by Skyhooks". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

External links[]

Album at Discogs

[1] "Skyhooks - Live Be In It (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 14 February 2016.

[2] "Skyhooks - Live Be in it (LP)". Discogs. Retrieved 14 February 2016.

[3] "Live! Be in It by Skyhooks". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

[Kent-4] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

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Greg Macainsh Bob Starkie Graeme "Shirley" Strachan Imants Strauks Red Symons Steve Hill Peter Inglis Peter Starkie Bob Spencer Tony Williams
Studio albums	Living in the 70's (1974) Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (1975) Straight in a Gay Gay World (1976) Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978) Hot for the Orient (1980) The Lost Album (1999)
Live Albums	Live! Be in It (1978) Live in the 80's (1983)
Compilation Albums	The Skyhooks Tapes (1977) The Best of Skyhooks (1979) The Latest and Greatest (1990) Singles and B sides (1994) The Collection (1999) Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard (2015) Hits'n'Riffs (2015)
Singles	"Living in the 70's" "Horror Movie" "Ego Is Not a Dirty Word" "All My Friends Are Getting Married" "Million Dollar Riff" "Let It Rock (live)" "This is My City" "Blue Jeans" "Party to End All Parties" "Women in Uniform" "Hooked on Hooks" "Jukebox in Siberia" "Happy Hippy Hut"