The Beatles set to release new ‘Hollywood Bowl’ on CD

J.G. Taruc

July 21, 2016

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  Photo credit:Billboard.com

  English rock band The Beatles is set to release new ‘Hollywood Bowl’ on CD for the first time on September 9 this year according to Billboard.com.

  ‘The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl’, a 1977 live album containing song performances from the Beatles Hollywood Bowl concerts in August 1964 and ’65.

  Aside from being released globally on CD, it will also be available on digital download for the first time, announced by the Beatles’ Apple Corps’ LTD. and Universal Music Group.

  The band’s new ‘Hollywood Bowl’ includes all the tracks of the 1977 album plus four additional unreleased songs and a 24-page booklet with an essay by music journalist David Frickie.

  Giles Martin, son of George Martin the so-called ‘fifth Beatle’ said the tapes now sound better than ever. “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.”

  The original 1977 version of The Beatles At the Hollywood Bowl was assembled from two group shows in 1964 and 1965 and released on album, 8-track and cassette by Capitol Records in the U.S. and Parlophone Records in the UK in May, 1977.

  It debuted on the U.S. Billboard album charts on May 21, 1977 and peaked at No. 2, and hit No. 1 in the U.K. It was never, however, released on legitimate CD, but it was heavily bootlegged.

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