THE BEATLES AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
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THE BEATLES AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is a live album by the Beatles, released in May 1977, featuring songs compiled from performances at the Hollywood Bowl in August 1964 and August 1965.[1] The album was released by Capitol Records in the United States and Canada and on the Parlophone label in the United Kingdom. A remixed, remastered, and expanded version of the album, retitled Live at the Hollywood Bowl, was released on 9 September 2016 to coincide with the release of the documentary film The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, directed by Ron Howard.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2016 - recorded during three nights in 1964 and 1965 and spliced into a seamless rush of manic love — is what makes Live at the Hollywood Bowl such a thrill
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Make no mistake: This is still mostly about Beatlemania, but this time you can hear what all the fuss was about.
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Wall Street Journal
2016 - one that captures a full Beatles concert in all its electrifying, chaotic glory
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The Guardian
2016 - It only serves to further its position as the unwanted child, the disowned foundling, highlighting not the brilliance of the Beatles but the needless rapaciousness of Apple Corps.
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Drowned in Sound
2016 - What Live At The Hollywood Bowl, and its parent movie, shows us is their primal power. The sound and the fury (not to mention the banter) that conjured a roar unheard since, both on and off the stage.
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All Music
Decades later, it's still thrilling to hear the band and the crowd feed off the excitement of the other.
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The Young Folks
the reason that this album ranks among both the best live albums and the best Beatles albums ever released isn’t because of the men on stage, but because of the women in the crowd
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Louder Sound
2016 - Live At The Hollywood Bowl is back, with new mixes by Giles Martin that sharpen the sound but don’t ditch the screams, plus extra tracks, including a wonderful I Want To Hold Your Hand. The great lost Beatles album just became the essential new Beatles album.
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Duluth News Tribune
2016 - proves Beatles were unbeatable live
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Ad's Vinyl Adventures
2016 - this is a very exciting record to own, and essential, really, because it is the only Beatles live album out there
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Best Classic Bands
It’s raw, it’s visceral and it’s still as exciting as hell.
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The Morton Report
2016 - Their music sounded irresistibly fresh, upbeat, and exciting in 1964 and 1965, and half a century later, it still does.
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Audiophile
2016 - That they sound so consistently good is a testament to their brilliance as musicians and performers -- they knew this material cold and could sing it in virtually any environment on key.
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The Collapsar
Live at the Hollywood Bowl gives us slightly lesser versions of songs we know and love, drenched with an insane amount of crowd noise.
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ABC News
This captures the unforgiving chaos of the moment, making this still quite a worthy document. But if you love this music, go listen to the studio albums.
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Lexgo
2016 - “Live at the Hollywood Bowl” manages, in pretty glorious terms, to capture a living snapshot of a lost pop age. As such, you can hardly blame the masses that assembled to witness it over 50 years ago for getting caught up in the moment.
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Mojo
2016 - IT’S THE DEFINITIVE document of Beatlemania, an album culled from live recordings from their 1964 and 1965 LA gigs which features the group gamely charging through their world-changing ditties amidst a maelstrom of high-pitched human feedback: the screams of unhinged Beatlemaniacs.
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Red Dirt Report
a must-own for fans, both obsessive and passive. I mean, c’mon: it’s the Beatles. No matter what it’s going to be infinitely listenable, and, let’s be honest, better than anything that’s currently on the radio now.
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Mark My Words
2016 - The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl gives those of us who weren’t around in the 1960’s a taste of what Beatlemania sounded like, and it’s a glorious jolt of adrenaline.
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ZRockR
2016 - There are minor flubs from the band throughout, but these are left in, and it makes the experience seem all the more authentic. If you are looking for a live album that actually sounds like a live album, this one certainly succeeds in that regard.
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People
1977 - This first nonbootleg live recording is a discovered treasure, capturing the Fab Four at the zenith of Beatlemania in 1964-65.
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Musoscribe
2016 - Now you can hear the fuss, and – more importantly – what the fuss was about.
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Stomp and Stammer
2016 - The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl was a huge treat for Beatle fans and furthered the notion that The Beatles kicked ass on stage.
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New Zealand Herald
2016 - This is a pivotal album in rock history, and with the new production allowing us to better hear the band over the audience's screaming, it's pretty darn special.
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Classic Rock Hostory
The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a distinct reminder of how spectacular the Beatles were as musicians and to this point still stands as the only official live Beatles album.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Spare yourself. George Martin does his best to repair the sound of this early concert, but there's no use: the performances are lousy
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Robert Christgau
The sound rings clearly and powerfully through the shrieking: the segues are brisk and the punch-ins imperceptible; and the songs capture our heroes at their highest.
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