Live at Fillmore West

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Live at Fillmore West is a live album by King Curtis released in August 1971. It was recorded March 5–7, 1971 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, with Curtis and his band the Kingpins backing Aretha Franklin. A week after the album came out, Curtis was stabbed to death outside his New York City home.

The album has been issued on CD several times: a 1990s Rhino reissue, a 2006 expanded edition, and a 2005 limited four-CD box set from Rhino Handmade titled Don’t Fight the Feeling: The Complete Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At Fillmore West, limited to 5,000 copies. The concert includes Curtis’s own song “Memphis Soul Stew” and many covers such as Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe,” and Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (the latter later associated with the film Withnail and I).

The album reached No. 54 on the Billboard 200 after Curtis’s death. There has been confusion that he was killed during the concert, but reports place the stabbing a week after the release.