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Live at the BBC

by The Beatles

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Album review

The surviving members of the Fab Four spent much of the 1990s belatedly reuniting to document, promote, and occasionally awkwardly burnish their unparalleled pop music legacy. This double-disc anthology of live-in-the-studio performances originally recorded specifically for the BBC during the most frantic years of early Beatlemania was the first chapter in that effort and the first issuance of previously unreleased Beatles recordings since the late '70s. In many ways, it remains the most artistically revealing. Capturing them at their early '60s live-performance peak, these recordings pay homage to both the band's eclectic musical influences (including Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Larry Williams, the Coasters, and the Shirelles), and to the enthusiastic and generous sense of musical discovery and the pop proselytizing that accompanied them. A number of the Fabs' own '62-'65 singles and album tracks are also featured, but they mostly take a back seat to the generous collection of previously unreleased cover songs included here. The band's brisk, often irreverent sense of humor also comes to fore in the intros, interviews, and between-song banter. An indispensable part of any true Beatlemaniac's collection and a superb introduction to the roots of a musical legend. --Jerry McCulley


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The Beatles were a pop/rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960. Primarily consisting of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). They are recognized for leading the mid-1960s musical "British Invasion" into the United States. Althoug...

Track list

CD 1
  1. Beatle Greetings [Speech] - The Beatles, Tony Hall
  2. From Us to You [#]
  3. Riding on a Bus [Speech] - The Beatles, Brian Matthew
  4. I Got a Woman [#]
  5. Too Much Monkey Business [#]
  6. Keep Your Hands off My Baby [#]
  7. I'll Be on My Way [#]
  8. Young Blood [#]
  9. Shot of Rhythm and Blues [#]
  10. Sure to Fall (In Love With You) [#]
  11. Some Other Guy [#]
  12. Thank You Girl
  13. Sha la la la La! [Speech]
  14. Baby It's You
  15. That's All Right (Mama) [#]
  16. Carol [#]
  17. Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) [#]
  18. Little Rhyme [Speech] - The Beatles,
  19. Clarabella [#]
  20. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You) [#]
  21. Crying, Waiting, Hoping [#]
  22. Dear Wack! [Speech] - The Beatles, Brian Matthew
  23. You Really Got a Hold on Me
  24. To Know Her Is to Love Her [#]
  25. Taste of Honey
  26. Long Tall Sally
  27. I Saw Her Standing There
  28. Honeymoon Song [#]
  29. Johnny B. Goode [#]
  30. Memphis [#]
  31. Lucille [#]
  32. Can't Buy Me Love
  33. From Fluff to You [Speech]
  34. Till There Was You
CD 2
  1. Crinsk Dee Night [Speech]
  2. Hard Day's Night
  3. Have a Banana! [Speech]
  4. I Wanna Be Your Man
  5. Just a Rumor [Speech] - The Beatles, Alan Freeman
  6. Roll over Beethoven
  7. All My Loving
  8. Things We Said Today
  9. She's a Woman
  10. Sweet Little Sixteen [#]
  11. 1822! [Speech]
  12. Lonesome Tears in My Eyes [#]
  13. Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees) [#]
  14. Hippy Hippy Shake [#]
  15. Glad All Over [#]
  16. I Just Don't Understand [#]
  17. So How Come (No One Loves Me) [#]
  18. I Feel Fine
  19. I'm a Loser
  20. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
  21. Rock & Roll Music
  22. Ticket to Ride
  23. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  24. Medley: Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
  25. Set Fire to That Lot! [Speech] - The Beatles,
  26. Matchbox
  27. I Forgot to Remember to Forget [#]
  28. Love These Goon Shows! [Speech]
  29. I Got to Find My Baby [#]
  30. Ooh! My Soul [#]
  31. Ooh! My Arms [Speech]
  32. Don't Ever Change [#]
  33. Slow Down
  34. Honey Don't [#]
  35. Love Me Do