20 Best Live Albums

Number 25 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, Live At The Apollo is a live album recording at its finest. Already a master performer in 1963, James Brown shows why he earned the title 'The Godfather Of Soul'. A masterful performance, filled with passion and a showmanship like no other.

Brown actually fronted the recording costs himself after King Records - his record label - didn't think it would sell well. Oh, how wrong they were; staying an incredible 66 weeks in the Billboard Pop Albums Chart, it is one of the most important live albums of all time.

From ballads like 'I Don't Mind' and 'Try Me' to Brown And The Famous Flames re-working of 'Night Train', it's a recording that captures a band in the prime of their lives. James Brown is charisma personified and Live At The Apollo is one of his finest moments.

In a medium filled with live albums across multiple generations, Live At The Apollo is exactly what they should strive to be.