‘Soldier of Love’ ‘Some Other Guy’ ‘Don’t Ever Change’ and ‘I’ll Be On My Way’ are just a few of the superb cuts found on the BBC album. One of the best post break-up canon releases.
'Don't Ever Change' was by The Crickets ,after Buddy's passing, and written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Both Buddy Holly & The Crickets and King-Goffin being amongst the biggest influences earlier in The Beatles' career. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uJjC0rUR_wU.html
I was working at Borders Books & Music in Deerfield,IL when the BBC compilation came out. We had a midnight sale and while it was a mild gathering, it was pretty exciting. I picked it up in CD that night, came home around 2am in time for my father to show up from work. He’s a huge Beatles fans and was the person responsible for turning me into a rabid Beatles fan. I was so honored to be the one to play my Dad the Live At The BBC for him, fresh off the stands. Another great episode
In the sea of crappy music writing, you are an island of reliable, well written and delivered information. Thanks for your scholarship and talent, sir!
Live at the BBC has two things going for it. 1. That cover shot is one of the nicest ever done of the Fab Four -capturing them on the cusp of worldwide fame; and 2. I cannot get enough of “Some Other Guy”. I wish there had been a studio recording of that song. Great video again today!
My mum is on that album! Well, she’s in the audience of the Easy Beat radio show anyway, so wasn’t ever going to receive royalties for her appearance. On another note, I bought the CD on release day and it doesn’t have the misprint on the track listing. I also picked up the vinyl at the time too, just because it looked nice and it was affordable back then (I think it was £9.99 from Andy’s Records).
For me, the most impressive performance of the BBC Beatles archives was the Lennon McCartney "I'll Be On My Way". An early showcase of everything John and Paul did so well. Hooks galore. Apparently forgotten and never recorded for EMI. Never understood why. Thanks, Andrew.
@@bobcash4617 Nah, I always thought it was an A side but only a B side! Wish the Beatles had recorded it for With the Beatles but I guess that would have seemed "lazy" back then :)
I first heard I'll Be On My Way when the Beatles at the BBC material was turned into a syndicated radio show in North America in the 1980s, and I recorded it off the air from a local station that ran it. I loved the song instantly, and also wished it would get a proper issue. Eventually, it did, but it was a long wait.
Being a clandestine lofi set, I accept it for what it is - a document of their presentation with the looseness and fun they were to us, and that they were as characters. Same as the Star Club material and the Xmas flexis. No polishing needed, it's a time capsule that can immerse me back in the era it, and I, came from.
I remember when Live at The BBC came out. EVERYONE was screaming about how it was the opening salvo for The Beatles to kill the bootleg market. It was going to open the floodgates(Which turned out to be the trickle called Anthology). I was just thrilled to hear songs I never heard like Some Other Guy and Solider Of Love. It was just a joy to hear what was then NEW Beatles material for the masses. Whats amazing is we're coming up on The Beatles 60 year anniversary and nobody get how much unreleased material really IS still out there(The hours of BBC material, the hours upon hours of Get Back/Let it be material). Unreleased outtakes and songs just considered not up to snuff. Will we ever see a remastered and re-released Decca sessions outside of the Anthology tracks? Will we ever see the Anthology remastered in some other way than downloads? Will McCartney ever follow through on his mission to finished the third Lennon song done by him George and Ringo? You'd think with all the hype Get Back got, The Beatles would do some kind of Expanded version of Anthology that literally follows the WHOLE story and not just snippets. Release Star Club and any other early live tapes. Do an expansive retrospect on BBC and Ed Sullivan and a expand on the Ron Howard film. The Beatles are probably the only band in existence where a literal LIBRARY of everything would sell like wildfire. Why did On Air not sell as well as the original? It was treated as second class next to the original. It never got the hype the original did. It was like "Oh...yeah...and theres is this also" I mean the original BBC CDs, Yellow Submarie Songtrack and then ANTHOLOGY were not just releases....THEY WERE EVENTS. They were so hyped that by the time release day came, you were desperate to hear them. Plus on other thing changed. Streaming. You HAD to go to the shops to hear them. Now? Just download it when its available. Gee, I also remember a time when if you did that, Metaliica would come to your house and beat you up!😁
I love this release. I have the collection box with volumes 1 & 2, bought in 2013. 2013 was a hard year for me, with depression. But this album helped me a lot though that time. During my depression, I did had some happy moments at times, visiting family etc. and then I remember listening to that BBC release on my iPod. And when the hard and when the depressing everydaylife during the weekdays came, it was pretty hard listening to some of the songs, making me cry, especially two particular song, «Soldier Of Love» and «Beautiful Dreamer». But the album did help me through it. I love it.
The Beatles at The Beeb was played as a radio special in the US in 1982. Recorded it on am Ampex real to real recorder and then transfered to cassette. Really enjoyed that.
I'll never forget receiving this on CD as a gift from my grandma along with a vintage book of Beatles trivia. Watching the Peter Jackson Get Back documentary encouraged me to dig this set back out.
I sincerely hope we get a Super Deluxe Edition of the Live at the BBC series. With volumes 1+2 included in a joint package along with brand new recordings. Heck, a live Beatles SDE would be incredible. There’s a lot of excellent Beatles performances that haven’t been officially released. They could even include some outfakes compiling various live performances to make it sound complete, as a lot of times, the mics were only picking up one or two of the Beatles. I’d love to have the 1966 Budokan Hall performance officially released.
Yes, I would buy Volume 3 in a heartbeat! What would I like to hear on it? Anything! Story time: When I was a boy, I would often visit a local mall not too far from my home. Beside the escalator was the electronics store, which naturally sold CDs and cassettes as well. And on the exterior wall of this electronic store were cover photos from popular albums. Which album’s cover art was right beside me as I went down the escalator? Live at the BBC. So I would go down that escalator and beside me would be The Beatles, larger than life, probably 3 or 4m tall. That photo stayed there until the mall was torn down in the early 2000s.
I will buy a Volume 3 definitely, because I enjoy Live At The BBC and On Air that much. Changing from sepia to b/w for the reissue of Vol. 1 wasn‘t a real step forward. The colourful picture of On Air is my favourite now. Thank you for your high quality videos 👍🏻🍀
This one grew on me over time. Wasn’t wild about it when it first came out. Later I came to appreciate the raw energy and live feel of it. Now I’d say it’s in medium rotation on my Beatles music listening. Thanks!!
This record brings back lots of good memories. I was only 11 years old and I remember the impact it had on Beatles fans here in Brazil. Radio programs played those songs for hours on end to leverage the release of Live At BBC, with comments made by fan clubs, musicians and lots Of Beatles fans all over the country. My dad bought the CD for me in December 1994 during our holidays. Good times!!! Thank you for another great video, my friend!!! ✌️😀
I was in London on business the day vol 1 was released. It's impossible to describe the anticipation and excitement of that day. Keen, and rich, Americans flew into London just to get it as soon as it was released. The perfect dish before the main course, the Anthology.
I have immense love for the BBC album. It was actually the first Beatles album I ever heard, when I was about 12. Of course I knew very little about music at that time and I actually thought the album was sort of a "greatest hits" compilation, and that The Beatles' studio recordings (and therefore all 60s pop) actually had that poorer very raw sound quality. these were the first version I ever heard of songs like A Hard Day's Night, I Feel Fine or even some of the covers originally featured in the studio album like Roll Over Beethoven and such. I remember my reaction when I got to hear the actual studio version of some songs. I was blown away by the quality (duh) but at the same time I thought the studio versions lacked a lot of the energy and freshness of the BBC versions. You Really Got a Hold On Me and Slow Down to this day sound WAY more entertaining in their BBC incarnations than on the official studio ones...
I always thought the official BBC release was Apple's response to the massive (and professional looking), 9 CD bootleg boxset that was extremely popular. The sound quality was far greater than previous bootlegs. And if fans were willing to pay top dollar for a 9 CD set, surely they would spend a fraction of that cost for an official release? As you stated, this was all before the success of the Anthology series.
I remember last year getting the CD and then the cassette version at Christmas. Best tracks for me are definitely 'Keep Your Hands Off My Baby', 'Some Other Guy' and 'I'll Follow The Sub' from the EP. I didn't know it had such a great reception, so glad it did though because that gave them the thumbs-up for the Anthology project.
I've had the CD in my car for over two months now 😄😄. I hadn't listened to it for many years, and really believe this is the Beatles at their best. Playing live, full of energy... John's vocals are great, George's solos (!!!) The whole band 🙌🙌🙌 plus their wit in the interviews. Great album. I had no idea there was a second one... And the bootlegs 1963... Thanks fot the video!! 🙂👍👍 Greetings from Peru 🙂
I used to listen to the Beatles on the radio in the Sixties, and so was very pleased when Live At The BBC came out. My fat-box CD edition has got the error on the Disc 2 contents corrected, and just has the regular title. I bought the second live double CD both as a separate item, and was then lucky enough to find a new copy of the slipcased pair. I also have the 4 track EP and Kevin Howlett’s The Beatles 1962-1970 BBC Archive book enclosed in the replica tape box. I’ve checked through my cassette tape library and found two The Beatles At The Beeb cassettes that I recorded in December 1982, and five John Lennon 1940-1980 cassettes recorded in 1981. Luckily, I keep all of my cassettes in proper storage and still have a Sony WM-D6C Pro Walkman to play them on. Thanks for another great video.
For me, it is part of my days of university, nice time that now lives in my heart. I have the CD, I didin’t know about the BBC sessions until they appeared. I was study in the South of my country, Chile, and I was a friend of the brother of EMI’s general manager in Chile. I can say I was the first in buy the álbum at least in South Chile. I remember being waiting for my friend on his music shop on a rainy day. He arrived with a big box marked with EMI.. he opened and gave me the first CD “you are the first” he said. This álbum and The Antology (also the related EP’s),are part of the soundtrack of my 90’s. Than you very much for your video! 😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
Superb Andrew! I still have my cassette recordings from those radio one 1988 pop goes the Beatles shows, it was the first time I had heard anything from them at the BBC.. Thx again for sharing 👍👍
Thanks Andrew fir the heads up on mono cables. I got a set and my mono box never sounded better!! I've too many memories of the bbc sessions....thank you on both!!
At 5:10 to 5:20, you mention "medium wave" and "long wave" radio. "Medium Wave" is the same frequency band as AM Radio, in many countries it encompasses the frequencies from 540 kHz to 1700 kHz. In the US, depending on the power output and atmospheric conditions, an AM station can reach large parts of the country. In 2005, a New Orleans, Louisiana radio station, WWL-AM, became the lifeline for New Orleans and surrounding areas after Hurricane Katrina. "Long Wave" is a broadcast band below the AM band, with frequencies between 153 kHz and 279 kHz. It's widely used in Europe, but unheard of here in the US.
A bit of a non sequitur. AM does not equal MW in that respect. Yes, the frequency bands you state for MW and LW are correct, but they're both Amplitude Modulated: AM. This is as opposed to Frequency Modulation which was transmitted on VHF (but again the frequencies and modulation system are distinct entities that happen to be used together but don't necessarily have to be).
@@markboulton954 You are correct. I was writing from a US perspective, where "AM" and "FM" are the default, if unofficial, names used by the general public in the US. It is true that LW also uses Amplitude Modulation, but here in the US, LW radio isn't a thing.... unless you're a ham operator with an LW tuner getting some massively freaky DX tropo!
As a Beatles fan and also as I work transferring to digital old tapes from my country's national symphonic orchestra (Uruguay, 1950-1990), I'm fascinated with all the insight you brought about how the BBC tapes were almost miraculously conserved and also how fans had such an important role in all this. Great video, as usual. I'm sorry I'm 7 months late for it. I'm subscribed now.
The BBC recordings are among my favorite recordings of the Beatles. I bought the original Yellow Matter Custard back in 1971 or 72 and thought it was from the Decca audition. At the time, we US fans had no idea that the Beatles had recorded all these BBC sessions. Over the years, I bought every BBC bootleg I could get my hands on. The Great Dane box set and the multi-volume Pyramid Records releases were phenomenal. I was a graduate student in the early 80s when the original BBC radio special aired in the US. I was scheduled to teach a class at the exact time of the broadcast. I arranged for a friend to teach the class so I could record the radio show; I still have those tapes. A few years later I bought a copy of the three-LP set of the actual transcript of the show sent to radio stations. I'd love to see an official release of all the Beatles BBC material.
The local rock station in New York City aired the Beatles at the Beeb radio show in 1982 in May I believe. I of course taped it and listened to it many times. It was great hearing all those unfamiliar songs. Soldier Of Love was incredible. Why had they not officially recorded that one? I loved Don’t Ever Change and thought it was a duet between John and Paul and only much later realized it was a rare Paul and George harmony vocal throughout. So much great stuff. I especially loved the BBC version of This Boy and was disappointed it wasn’t on the 1994 album but glad it came out on the 2013 one. I haven’t yet collected the full BBC recordings. Just some extra shows here and there. I would happily buy a third official release and even happier spring for an official however many cd box of the complete recordings done up right with Kevin Howlett annotating everything. Thanks again for your videos. Always look forward to them. I’ve bought a number of albums recently based on your recommendations and they have been great.
I'm going to be honest, I'd buy any Beatles music content that's being released officially for the first time. Even if it's something I already have on bootlegs. I'd be all over a Live at the BBC volume 3 😊
Your channel has filled in so many of the questions I've had about Beatles history and provided answers that you really can't find anywhere else... cheers! The BBC live CDs were always my favorite... I thought it was the Beatles at their rawest and rockingest
Just catching this video now. Yes, it was such a huge deal when the first BBC set came out. For me, it was like being a little kid again and I couldn't wait for Christmas to get the CD. I hadn't collected bootlegs of the material (yet), so it was like opening a giant batch of unheard Beatles performances (and wonderful, witty chat). A treasure trove! I'd love to see all of it released. Maybe like a lot of fans, The Beatles are like distant friends, so gifted and funny, and I relish any chance for their company. -Jason (Spy Vibe)
My second favorite Beatles album; I love it! You can really hear the club band here: the extensive repertoire, the sometimes funny covers, the intimate singing, the confidence. They were such a tight performing unit.
Live at the BBC is oneof the best Beatles discs ever! It showcases them in their element, their quick wit, with some killer live performances and oh yeah -- most of it is pure rock n roll!
I was 16 when this came out and still remember the night I bought this at a "Media Play" store in Binghamton NY. I got the double vinyl. I had a couple of Beatles cassettes, sure, but all the Beatles records I grew up with were my parents. It was cool that I bought a Beatles record of my own! It was exciting bringing it home, looking at it, playing it. I loved how it felt both so new and so old at once and in multiple ways. The beautiful packaging, the crisp heavy paper of the brand new sleeves, an excellent modern execution of a classic design with vintage pictures and a literal sepia tone to the whole thing. And it was early in the Beatles' career, so seemed "old" to my teenage self, yet it was when they were very young and new. And so many of the songs were new to me, even if they were old covers. It was a strange mix of borrowed nostalgia and this-is-now 90s record buying! The sound had a similar warm quality, and thanks to your vid I realize now how much I have Margaret Ashworth to thank for that. "Good ol' Margaret"! Once again, it was a mix of then-and-now - obviously period sounds and production, but it all made you almost feel like you were listening in live on the radio too. And the sides were so long! Just put it on, let it play like a radio show. It was very cool. There were so many good songs but just to mention one, Thank You Girl - it really shows the magic they were making as a live band even as Beatlemania was closing in. The studio version of Thank You Girl is a cute but disposable track. This live take is killer, easily in the top 10 hardest-rocking songs they ever did. There are so many glimpses like this on the BBC album, moments that hint that hint at what a lot of those other great unrecorded live Beatle performances were like. Thanks for the video!
Live At The BBC is one of my favorite Beatles albums. I just think it captures a spontaneous spirit that they had, so early. the banter and conversation between numbers is so much fun to listen to.
Excellent as always, Andrew! I remember the release very well. It amazes me how the band didn’t officially record and release many of tracks onto their studio albums. Also, I remember sitting in front of the radio back in 1982 listening to the 20th anniversary BBC tracks and recording as many as I could onto cassette. I would definitely buy a volume 3.
The BBC recordings are probably my favorite of The Beatles. The spirit, energy and innocence of the “on the cusp of fame” Beatles is so infectious. I have a multi CD set and I play them on occasion, but the original Live at the BBC set has great nostalgic value. Count me in as disapproving the removal of the sepia from the packaging. Losing the crossfades were helpful for uploading to my iPhone but otherwise I prefer the original release.
Hello Andrew. How lovely to feature the live at the BBC albums. I bought the first one in a record shop on a trip to Coventry for a great price of £6.99 on vinyl must be in 1995 at earliest. Carrying it around the town and getting it home back to Devon unscathed was a challenge. I played this album a few times and love it. The second one I bought in the first week of release on vinyl, I think I have played it twice and is mint. Really interesting video, looking forward to the next one
Great that was, Andrew! In 1994 a did the same, here in Brazil. I remember that when the record sales man received the cds I was there outside the store, I got the first one. I still have it. In the same year I bought a 9 cd box set with the bbc sessions of the beatles, an Italian issue. I herad them restlessly. Those were the days. Thank you, Andrew!
Thanks again Andrew for another great presentation. I remember recording the Beatles at the Beeb on my portable cassette player whilst camping at Wilson's Promontory in Victoria, Australia. I was going away that weekend but took my stereo cassette recorder and ran it on batteries to record the show. I particularly liked the Chuck Berry numbers. I also bought bootlegs of BBC shows -The best being the Fab 4 Radio Active 9 CD set with complete recordings of Saturday Club and other shows. I have the official BBC recordings on vinyl and CD and would be happy to buy any further official releases of BBC recordings. It would also be good if Apple released some of the numerous live performances that are widely available on RU-vid and elsewhere.
incredible compilations and incredible video. there’s so many versions i adore from these, i love how they sound so comfortable with the tracks. some of my favorite covers like “sure to fall” and “crying hoping waiting” are on these as well
Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix BBC Sessions were great, but The Beatles albums are abdolutely outstanding. In 1995, I had two Maxell cassettes with them. Delightful. Thank you for bringing back these wonderful memories to me, Andrew. Best wishes
Thanks Andrew. Haven't got these in my collection yet, but will definitely get them now. In 1963 I was 10 and we didn't have a record player at all. What we had though was a 10 year old Pye valve radio that as I remember had great sound. I used to love listening to Brian Matthews show Saturday Club on Saturday morning and that was where I first heard the Beatles and like many young girls was captured by their humour as well as their music. Because I was so star struck by the Beatles I was taken to our local cinema to see A Hard Day's Night when it came out .....and in 1965/6 we got a Dansette record player. Thus began my love affair with vinyl. I'm definitely gonna get both volume 1 and 2.
Andrew, great information as always. Like you, I listened to this album quite a bit in the ninetees. Fantastic performances, plus good old beatles humor, what's not to love.
Another fine documentation of a fantastic Beatles' release. My introduction to the Beatles BBC material was a copy of THE BEATLES BROADCASTS in 1981. The album was a fine mixture of established Beatles' hits, plus covers that I'd never heard before. Most of them turned up on EMI/Apple's releases. These recordings, while I don't listen to very often, do offer the listener to hear the early Beatles live, with out the saturation of screams from the audience.
One of the last great album art for The Beatles. Did not know that the reissue did not include cross fades or added tracks! This was an exciting moment seeing a new Beatles release. By the way, brilliant intro/outro to the video!
Thanks Andrew… your video on my favorite albums of-late was wonderful and tremendously informative. There were many things you brought to light that I had no idea about.
Beatles at the Beeb was syndicated here in the US as well, I had never heard about their work for radio and remember trying to record as much of it as I could. I have a couple of bootlegs and my original CDs from 1994, some of their best work. The breadth & depth of their repertoire was astounding!👍👍
I've had The Beatles live at the BBC since 2001on cd.I used to play to the album a lot back then.Just listened again for the first time in years and loved it,magical early performances.Ile Be On My Way!I'm really enjoying your Videos
Hello Andrew great video. You mention the special programmes on Radio 1,but I remember on Tommy Vance's Friday night rockshow over a few weeks he played 3 tracks each time. The songs which stood out then were nothin' shakin', Memphis, Tennessee and I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you. I have the cd and I love some other guy. It is so raw and the guitars have a great edginess. A lot of the post 1963 shows are poor,hard day's night is bad for one. There are some great rock n roll covers by the Beatles and I think Ringo shows what a great rock n roll drummer he is.
Your videos are always enjoyable and interesting!!! I've been listening Beatles' BBC material on the bootlegs since I was 14 years old (it was in the 1980s). When it was officially released, there was nothing that surprised me in terms of content. I was just skeptical about how much the poor sound quality was improved. In Vol-1, the sound quality was improved and the noise was removed well. However, Vol-2 is not as good at improving sound quality as the previous work. If Vol-3 is produced in the future, I hope that even more valuable materials (The Night Before , I Should Have Known Better I Call Your Name etc...) , will be delivered with excellent sound quality.
Thanks for sharing this Andrew! This was a wonderful release. I bought this CD the day of release and couldn’t wait to play it even though I had most of the songs from a 6 hour radio special from May 1990. Listening to this should put to rest any doubts about the Beatles as a live band. They also extremely funny which was missing from other bands then and now. Thanks again!
I’m working my way backwards through your videos, they're really great. I remember waiting in line at mightnight at a shop in Schererville, Indiana. The new Pearl Jam came out that day too and most were waiting for that. It was a real thrill to have an official release of this maternal. The bootleg BBC Archives set was recently updated and is the best source for everything BBC.
I picked up the cd when it first came out, love it, still listen to it to this day, albeit in digital form on iTunes , as you say, always brings a smile to my face and I never tire of listening to all those songs Great review Cheers
I first heard the BBC tracks in mid-1982 on a special aired on a Washington, D.C., FM station, and instantly fell in love with "Soldier Of Love" (later that year, Marshall Crenshaw -- who played John Lennon in a 1979 touring production of "Beatlemania" -- included a version on his fine debut album), as well as "I'll Be On My Way." So when an "official" CD version was issued, I just had to own, as I did Vol. 2 in 2013. Wonderful stuff. 😃
Great video as always Andrew. I love "live at BBC" because it is from the purest period of the Beatles era. I first bought it on vinyl and I have it since then in pristine condition
I tape recorded the original radio transmissions in the 1980s of the Lost Beatles tapes and it was such a joy to listen. Their humour on interview can’t be matched. Musically, I loved “a shot of rhythm and blues” (which I recently learned to sing and play on acoustic) and a host of others like Lucille, Chuck Berry covers galore and so much else.
Another fascinating clip... I ordered the 1st BBC double LP vinyl version and vol 2 in New Zealand. The record shop guy thought I was "old school" for not getting the CD version. The record shop has long gone and now CDs are "old school" and VINYL'S BACK BABY !.🤩👍.... Now I'm cool again😎lol.
Thanks for another great video. I can’t wait for my weekly fix of Beatle lore (and more) from you Andrew. I fear the quality of you videos can’t remain this good forever, but so far they have all been great. My CD copy of “Live at the BBC” (Manufactured by Capital Records USA) has the Disc 2 Track 17 “Top” error. I didn’t buy it on midnight the day it was released. The only time I did that was for Anthology 1 and was rewarded by finding two copies of Disc 1 and no copy of Disc 2 when I opened it after I reached home. I waited until the next day to return to the store to get the mistake corrected. I bought quite a few bootleg LPs in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. My copy of “Yellow Matter Custard” erroneously said the tracks were from the Decca tapes. The story is someone played the bootleg for John Lennon and he said they were from the Decca recordings. I believe in his last interview with Andy Peebles, John mentioned he collected bootleg LPs when he found them, but didn’t listen to them. I grew up in a Midwestern USA college town with a population of about 100k. Bootlegs were available at some independent record stores (not chain stores), usually in the “import” or used sections. From my experiences at the time, bigger the college the better the bootleg selection. And a trip to the right record stores in Chicago took finding bootlegs to an entirety different level! Without getting too long (too late), I will add my vote for another BBC collection, although with few if any unreleased songs available, I doubt it would be a huge seller. Others have already put together some good ideas for the tracks to include in a third BBC collection in the comments (Norman Sanders for one), but an official complete Beatles BBC collection (to replace my 9 CD bootleg version) would be a great high end supplement to the third collection - especially if it were given the Peter Jackson treatment to make the sound quality as good as possible and a serious effort were made to fill in the missing programs by offering collectors realistic compensation for their contributions. I don’t think it will happen, but I can dream…
I loved when they dropped on iTunes as a copyright renewal tactic. It was such a gift! I really enjoy your videos each week! Most of my early Beatles albums are from the 1995 US reissues with purple Capitol labels. They replaced those first issue CD’s and 70s pressings which I wore out as a little kid. Oddly my first White Album was the MoFi release which I still have. Why I didn’t buy “The Beatles - In Mono” box set upon release I have NO idea. I replaced my “Revolver” and “Rubber Soul” with 2014 Mono reissues at trips to the record store and can’t believe not too many years later they go for $100 a pop. I also LOVE the Giles Martin remasters. They are my go-to pressings now. Particularly “Abbey Road” which even the 2014 remaster of I felt was lacking. You have given great counsel on all the best pressings and I think this year I will bite the bullet and put together a best pressing collection spanning the globe!
That's my copy of Yellow Matter Custard with the orange cover and yellow info sheet that I bought 1972. I take it you grabbed it from my listing at Discogs. Glad to have my image included.
Hi Andrew, thanks for another informative video - bought this and the baby it’s you single back in the day. I had no idea that we owe this recording to home recording. I will listen again in amazement at the quality of this recording. I for one would definitely buy a volume 3 BBC archive volume - but then again I am a Beatle nut, cheers Matt
Time for Apple to put out a Box Set, with all the complete known shows, as the bootleggers have done. I personally love all this BBC material. Thanks for another great video, Andrew.
Good video Andrew! I bought live at the bbc in 1994 on the first week of its release. Played it everyday for a year plus I had bbc boots from the 80’s and 2013 bought vol 2 like them both!
Another great one Andrew! I think part of the fun as a second generation fan was the search and the finding of Beatles information through magazines, radio shows and bootlegs. It seems too easy now! Ha!
I enjoy occasionally listening to both volumes of Live At The BBC. They're a well recorded look at the Beatles live sound, under more controlled conditions.
Great informative video on the special BBC albums Andrew! Loved it ! Some of these recordings are of such good quality that very good stereo versions can be made using source separation software & fine tuned with spectral editing - such as "Nothin' Shakin" & "Soldier Of Love" (which i've done). Tiger.
Great video, thanks. I only recently came across your channel, and I’m loving the content. I the first of your videos that I saw was your review of the new Red and Blue reissues, when I was trying to decide whether to buy them or not. I went through a mad Beatles bootleg phase years ago, and downloaded a vast amount of material, including cd-ready artwork, in cd-length files, from the Purple Chick label. Amongst the treasures is a 10 cd set titled “The Beatles complete BBC sessions upgraded”. Sound quality ranges from pretty funky to excellent. I have no idea how “complete” this series really is, but it must be close. Cheers from South Australia!
Excellent job to understand well the how and why of this collection. In 1989 I was able to get hold of a three-disc box set from "The Swingin' Pig" label entitled "From Us to you", quite impressive and I was able to enjoy it 5 years before the official version came out (which I also bought). As a curiosity there are some songs that sound much better in the unofficial edition of 1989 I also have the two EPs and of course, the vinyl edition of Paneta Agostini. Greetings from Spain.
I was 12 when the album was released and I immediately fell in love with 'Keep Your Hands Off My Baby'. It's one of the most lo-fi recordings of all their BBC material and I still hope and pray that someday a better version will surface.
I was also glued to the "Beatles At The Beeb" radio broadcast when it aired in the US in 1982, and taped it directly off the radio. I was already familiar with the Deccagone coloured vinyl 45s, but hadn't bought more than one or two of them. I religiously listened to those cassettes for years, and transferred them to CD in 2002, and then to mp3 files a decade later. Unfortunately, they were destroyed in a winter rainflood (unfortunate because they contained 1982 narration and interviews by BBC figures who worked with the band 20 years earlier). I was initially unimpressed with the official release, because of the cross-fading and alternate sequencing to what I was accustomed to. But now I've embraced them, because that's all there is left.
I listened to my mom’s Beatles records in the 70s and 80s, but didn’t buy my own until the early 90s when I left home, so “Live at the BBC” was only the 3rd Beatles purchase I made after the Red & Blue albums. Then I went full catalog. I know several notable artists had official “At the Beeb” releases well before this (Hendrix, Syd Barrett, and Queen come to mind), but after the Beatles released theirs, everyone else followed suit in short order, although it took another decade for the Stones.
Love your channel……I first heard the Beatles at the Beeb as a radio show here in America on Labor Day weekend around 1986 or so. A local radio station in upstate New York played a good part of the the songs/radio shows filling up two and a half 90 minute cassettes. With a reel to reel and a primitive fader I was able to re-edit the radio show into something more listenable. Rock on!
