Apple Corps and Universal Music Group are releasing The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl, a new album of the band’s three sold-out concerts at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl in 1964 and 1965.
The album is being released in conjunction with The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, a documentary feature film about the band’s early career by Academy Award-winner Ron Howard.
The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl will be released worldwide on CD and for digital download and streaming on September 9, followed by a 180-gram gatefold vinyl LP on November 18. The album includes a 24-page booklet with an essay by noted music journalist David Fricke, and its cover art features a photo taken on August 22, 1964 by The Beatles’ then-US tour manager, Bob Bonis, as John, Paul, George and Ringo boarded a chartered flight from Seattle Tacoma Airport to Vancouver, BC for their first concert in Canada.
Although The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl references the long out of print 1977 album, it is an entirely new release, directly sourced from the original three-track tapes of the concerts. The album includes a 24-page booklet with an essay by music journalist David Fricke, and its cover art features a photo taken on August 22, 1964 by The Beatles’ then-US tour manager, Bob Bonis, as John, Paul, George and Ringo boarded a chartered flight from Seattle Tacoma Airport to Vancouver, BC for their first concert in Canada.
Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell have expertly remixed and mastered the recordings at Abbey Road Studios, including the thirteen tracks from the original album produced by Giles’ father, plus four additional, previously unreleased recordings from the momentous concerts.
“A few years ago Capitol Studios called saying they’d discovered some Hollywood Bowl three track tapes in their archive,” said Martin. “We transferred them and noticed an improvement over the tapes we’ve kept in the London archive. Alongside this I’d been working for some time with a team headed by technical engineer James Clarke on demix technology, the ability to remove and separate sounds from a single track.
"With Sam Okell, I started work on remixing the Hollywood Bowl tapes. Technology has moved on since my father worked on the material all those years ago. Now there’s improved clarity, and so the immediacy and visceral excitement can be heard like never before. My father’s words still ring true, but what we hear now is the raw energy of four lads playing together to a crowd that loved them. This is the closest you can get to being at the Hollywood Bowl at the height of Beatlemania. We hope you enjoy the show.”
Howard’s authorised documentary feature film about The Beatles’ early career is set for its world premiere in London’s Leicester Square September 15, 2016. It features rare and exclusive footage of the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. The film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison.
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