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Live and Very Attractive

2008 live album by Bowling for Soup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4951245 ↗
Source-derived summary

Live and Very Attractive is the first live DVD and live album by American punk band Bowling for Soup, released on July 7, 2008. Live and Very Attractive was released as a 2-disc set: one disc featuring the live show and documentary and the second featuring the band's commentary. In the United Kingdom, Live and Very Attractive was released as a 3-disc including a bonus CD version of the concert along with the two DVDs.

Live and Very Attractive was recorded at the O2 Apollo in Manchester, during the band's UK "Get Happy Tour" in October 2007.

Editorial summary

“Live and Very Attractive” enters the record as 2008 live album by Bowling for Soup. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Live, Very and Attractive can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-07-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Live, Very and Attractive.
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“Live and Very Attractive” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Live, Very and Attractive provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4951245. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live and Very Attractive” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.