THE BEATLES LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORIGINAL RELEASE LP JACKET & RECORD MINt

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THE BEATLES LIVE ST THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL

RELEASED MAY 6 1977

RECORDED AUGUST 23 1964 AND AUGUST 30 1965

The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is a live album by  Beatles released on 5 May 1977 featuring songs compiled from two 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 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom. 

The Beatles were among the few major recording artists of the 1960s not to have issued a live album. Consequently, among Beatles fans, pent-up demand for a concert album continued to build. Despite the obvious demand for a live album, the tapes from the three Hollywood Bowl performances continued to sit untouched in a Capitol vault. In 1971 Eventually The Hollywood Bowl tapes were given to American record producer Phil Spector to see if he could fashion an album out of the material. Either Spector did not complete the job or his production was unsatisfactory, and the tapes continued to sit unreleased for another six years.

Finally, with a rival record label's impending release of the Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 album consisting of a 15-year-old, poor-quality mono concert recording of the group performing in the Star-Club in Hamburg, Capitol Records' president, Bhaskar Menon, decided to revisit the Hollywood Bowl recordings. Beatles' producer George Martin was handed the tapes and asked to compile a listenable "official" live album.

When Martin was asked by Menon to hear the tapes, he was impressed with the performances but disappointed in the sound quality. In working on the three-track Hollywood Bowl concert tapes, Martin discovered quite a challenge.[5] The first difficulty was finding a working three-track machine with which to play back the master tapes. Once he found one, he discovered that the machine overheated when it was running, melting the magnetic tape. Martin and recording engineer Geoff Emerick came up with the solution of blowing air from a vacuum cleaner to keep the tape deck cool whilst the recordings were transferred to 16-track tape for filtering, equalisation, editing, and mixing. Martin found the 29 August 1965 recording virtually useless, and, except for a few dubs taken from the performance of 29 August to augment other performances, the album compiled by Martin consisted entirely of songs recorded on 23 August 1964 and 30 August 1965.

NOTE: Oddly enough (and ironic to say the least, even the Monkees recorded a live album in 1967. 

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ONE LAST NOTE; I am unfortunately unable to show you the album's inside bi-fold cover as it is still in its original heat seal cellophane.