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LIVE AT THE BBC

The Beatles

 

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3.23 | 74 ratings

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AtomicCrimsonRush
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3 stars THE BEATLES Live at the BBC is an historical document to be sure, replete with the amazing early years of the Beatles. The discs are jam packed with early renditions of well known, beloved tracks and a ton of covers with interviews from the Fab Four interspersed. There are some genuinely humorous moments as we hear their cheeky British wit coming through. It took a while till this recording saw the light of day but it is so impressive to hear them in this raw, no nonsense form, before they became infamous and layered albums with studio trickery and buffonery. There some rare oddities here you will rarely hear anywhere else by Beatles such as on disc 1 From Us To You, Riding On A Bus, Keep Your Hands Off My Baby, I'll Be On My Way, Young Blood, Carol, Soldier Of Love and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You).

On the second disc we have Crinsk Dee Night, Have A Banana!, I Forgot To Remember To Forget, I Got To Find My Baby and Don't Ever Change. There are 69 tracks to wade through and a lot of familiar material too such as Matchbox, A Hard Day's Night, Roll Over Beethoven, All My Loving, Things We Said Today, She's A Woman, I Feel Fine, I'm A Loser, Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, Ticket To Ride and Kansas City / Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Overall the album comes recommended to any Beatles fanatic and anyone who loves listening to classic 1960s pop.

AtomicCrimsonRush | 3/5 |

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