Any greatest live albums list is incomplete without these classics

Leonard Cohen at Glastonbury festival in 2008. At the O2 the same year, he quipped that it had been ‘a long time since I have stood on a stage in London – it was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream’. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

I was that surprised Alexis Petridis overlooked Leonard Cohen Live in London (2009) in his list of the greatest live albums (From Dylan to disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: the 30 best live albums ever – ranked, 15 January). The recording captured Cohen’s sublime performance at the O2 Arena in July 2008. Cohen quipped that it had been “a long time since I have stood on a stage in London – it was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream”. I’m sure dreams came true for many in the audience that night.
Mike Pender
Cardiff

• Alexis Petridis says of the seventh-placed The Who – Live at Leeds that it offers “no songs from Tommy”. On side two of my vinyl copy, bought from a school classmate not long after the album was released in 1970, I have many times enjoyed how My Generation switches into a Tommy medley, beginning with the glorious “see me, feel me” from Tommy’s closing track, We’re Not Gonna Take it.
David Sutherland
Chiddingfold, Surrey