Live at the Hollywood Bowl

"To coincide with the documentary "Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years", the recordings have been remixed and remastered by George Martin's son Giles, with four additional tracks, including "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Martin Jr's sonic whizzery doesn't extend to removing the screams from the recording - they continue throughout, a potent reminder of the pandemonium the Beatles generated at their touring peak - but he has brought out both the melody and muscular tautness of the band's live performance: on their cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" you can almost hear the rumblings of proto-punk, while "She Loves You" sounds almost as sweet as on record".

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"Perhaps the Beatles weren't able to hear themselves well on-stage but that's hard to discern from these performances, which are tight and swinging with the band clearly deriving energy from the audience. That's the primary difference between Live at the Hollywood Bowl and the two volumes of Live at the BBC: no matter how excellent those BBC collections are, there's no sense of the kinetic connection between the Beatles and their fans, something that's in ample display on Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Decades later, it's still thrilling to hear the band and the crowd feed off the excitement of the other".

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"Energiniveauet ville gøre de fleste punkbands forpustede ... Indspilningerne (...) blev oprindeligt udgivet på vinyl i 1977 under titlen "The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl". Den nye udgave har en mere fokuseret og ensartet lyd og byder på fire bonusnumre, som dog ikke rokker ved opfattelsen af, hvad The Beatles formåede som liveband".

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