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United States Live is the first live album and third overall album by American avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set, the album is a recording of a performance of Anderson's piece United States at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983. United States was Anderson's magnum opus performance-art piece featuring musical numbers, spoken word pieces, and animated vignettes about life in the United States. Split into four parts segments ranged from humorous, such as "Yankee See," which gently chided Anderson's record label, Warner Bros. Records, for signing her in the first place, to the apocalyptic anthem "O Superman," which had been an unexpected Top 10 hit for Anderson on the UK music charts in 1981. Originally, United States was presented over the course of two nights, running some eight hours. The live album set is a truncated rendering of the performance, omitting many segments that were solely of a visual nature. Among the songs performed on the album was "Language Is a Virus," a pop-like song based upon a phrase attributed to William S. Burroughs. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)