The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl

Hollywood Bowl - Front Cover	Hollywood Bowl - Back Cover
Hollywood Bowl - Gatefold Interior
Hollywood Bowl - Inner Bag (Front)

Label	Parlophone
Catalogue No.	EMTV 4
Release date	6th May 1977
Total time	28:30
U.K. Album Chart Detail :	Entry Date : 21st May 1977 Highest Position : 1 ... for 1 week from 18th June 1977 Weeks in Chart : 17
Detail :	The Beatles first No.1 album for SEVEN years, and their last for the next SEVENTEEN ! From the summer of 1976 E.M.I. embarked on a new series of T.V. advertised albums, the first of these was EMTV 1 - The Beach Boys "20 Golden Greats" which stayed at the top slot for 10 weeks. Glen Campbell was EMTV 2, The Shadows were the third, and The Beatles became the 4th ... hence the unusual catalogue number. (EMTV 5 was The Supremes, EMTV 6 was Cliff Richard, EMTV 7 was The Black and White Minstrels, EMTV 8 was Buddy Holly, EMTV 9 was Nat 'King' Cole, and EMTV 10 was Frank Sinatra.) All of the above were heavily (and expensively) promoted on nationwide T.V. and all had immense chart success, eight of the ten reaching number one. E.M.I. budgeted £200,000 of advertising on the Beatles release and this was one of the eight chart-toppers (just !). The Hollywood Bowl concerts a year apart were recorded by Capitol records using a three-track recording system. The 1964 concert recording engineer was Hugh Davies, and the 1965 was Pete Abbott which were produced by Voyle Gilmore under the supervision of George Martin. But the results were technically disappointing (not surprising with 17,000 continuously screaming fans) and the idea was shelved for over 10 years. Finally, the Capitol president Bhaskar Menon discovered the tapes and asked George Martin to give them another listen. George was impressed with the electric atmosphere and the raw energy and set to work in January 1977 enhancing and transferring the performances to modern multi-track tapes. They did no redubbing of voices or instruments. So there we have it, most of us had bootleg copies of these performances, but here was an official version, great stuff. For the best bootlegs have a look at Live At Shea Stadium L.P., and Live At Shea Stadium E.P.'s both of which were actually the 1964 Hollywood bowl concert ! The album did sell over a million copies worldwide. Promo copies were available as a box-set. The cover shows items of U.S. memorabilia, and the inner bag (shown bottom of page) advertised all the Beatles official albums. The front cover shows tickets from the 23rd August 1964 and 29th August 1965, but the recordings from the 1965 concert were the following day. In fact here is a list of the complete playlist of each of the two concerts, highlighting those numbers used on this release : 23rd August 1964 30th August 1965 Twist And Shout Twist And Shout You Can't Do That She's A Woman All My Loving I Feel Fine She Love's You Dizzy Miss Lizzy Things We Said Today Ticket To Ride Roll Over Beethoven Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby Can't Buy Me Love Can't Buy Me Love If I Fell I Wanna Be Your Man I Want To Hold Your Hand         A Hard Day's Night Boys Help ! A Hard Day's Night I'm Down Long Tall Sally   On 3rd September 1984 the L.P. was re-issued on the E.M.I. budget label "Music For Pleasure", catalogue no. MFP 4156761. With no promotion this failed to chart. Surprisingly this full priced edition was still available until it was deleted 28th February 1985.

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