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{{Infobox album
| name       = Monty Python Live at City Center
| type       = [[Live album]]
| artist     = [[Monty Python]]
| cover      = MONTY_PYTHON_LIVE_AT_CITY_CENTER.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 3 May 1976 (US)
| recorded   = April 1976 at [[New York City Center]]
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Comedy]]
| length     = 60:41
| label      = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| producer   = Nancy Lewis
| prev_title = [[The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [[The Monty Python Instant Record Collection]]
| next_year  = 1977
}}

'''''Monty Python Live at City Center''''' is a US-only live album by [[Monty Python]], recorded at the [[New York City Center]] in April 1976 and rush released by [[Arista Records]] the following month. In order to get the album out in the shops quickly, the recordings were made early on in the run, where some of the performances were affected by faulty microphones. The team were joined onstage by regular actress [[Carol Cleveland]] and musician [[Neil Innes]], who also performed in some sketches. 

The album was not released in the UK, due to its similarity to ''[[Live at Drury Lane]]''. As with that album, [[Michael Palin]] provided new linking material.

A [[compact disc|CD]] version was released in 1997.

{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r256740}}</ref>
}}

==Track listing==
===Side one===
#Introduction/The Llama
#Gumby Flower Arranging
#Short Blues
#[[Colin "Bomber" Harris vs Colin "Bomber" Harris|Wrestling]]
#[[World Forum/Communist Quiz|World Forum]]
#[[Albatross (Monty Python sketch)|Albatross]]/Colonel Stopping It
#[[Nudge Nudge]]
#[[Crunchy Frog]]
#[[Bruces' Philosophers Song|Bruces' Song]]
#Travel Agent

===Side two===
#Camp Judges
#Blackmail
#Protest Song
#[[Dead Parrot sketch|Pet Shop]]
#[[Four Yorkshiremen sketch|Four Yorkshiremen]]
#[[Argument Clinic]]
#Death of Mary, Queen of Scots
#[[Dead Bishop|Salvation Fuzz]]
#[[The Lumberjack Song|Lumberjack Song]]

''Monty Python Live at City Center'' was also broadcast on the ''[[King Biscuit Flower Hour]]'' radio show on 9 May 1976, with an introduction by [[John Cleese]] and Dave Herman.

== Personnel ==
* [[Graham Chapman]]
* [[John Cleese]]
* [[Terry Gilliam]]
* [[Eric Idle]]
* [[Terry Jones]]
* [[Michael Palin]]

=== Additional performers ===
* [[Carol Cleveland]]
* [[Neil Innes]]

== References ==

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==External links==
*[http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/monty-pythons-flying-circus/concerts/city-center-april-23-1976.html This concert on the Concert Vault website] - a slightly different version recorded on 23 April 1976.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zg0Tjl7rdo The unreleased introduction by John Cleese and Dave Herman] - hosted on YouTube by the Monty Python Museum.

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[[Category:Monty Python live albums|Live at City Center]]
[[Category:1976 live albums]]
[[Category:Arista Records live albums]]