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Stronghold (Magnum album)

1997 live album by Magnum

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ7624665 ↗
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Stronghold is a live album by the English rock band Magnum, released in 1997 by SPV. It is the UK re-release of The Last Dance, which originally was only distributed in mainland Europe. This edition included bonus tracks.

Sanctuary Records released a remastered and expanded edition in 2007, along with Magnum's first six albums. The deluxe packaging has new sleeve notes and an exclusive interview with Tony Clarkin.

Track listing

Cover sleeve

The cover art was designed by Rodney Matthews.

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The public source identifies “Stronghold (Magnum album)” as 1997 live album by Magnum. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stronghold, Magnum and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stronghold, Magnum and album providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7624665. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stronghold (Magnum album)” 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.