It was produced by Cassidy and Barry Ainsworth on Bell Records.

The recording captures some of the mass hysteria that surrounded Cassidy's live performances at that time.

The album failed to have much of an impact in the U.S. partially due to Bell Records' mid-1970s slump and that label's scheduled transition into Arista Records the following year.

[3] Writing for Allmusic, critic Dave Thompson wrote, "Recorded live on his 1974 world tour, at the height (and, though nobody knew it, in the final days) of Cassidy-mania, Cassidy Live is a peculiar document, on the one hand standing as an indication of just how fierce the hysteria around the lad was, but, on the other, living proof of what a sensational showman he was."

Thompson summed up his review by saying, "Rock history has sidelined Cassidy with a finality that seems almost personal, shovelling him up a teen idol side street from which the only escape was retirement and resignation.