The Beatles - Live at the BBC
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Music CD Cover Artist: The Beatles Edition: Music CD Format: Live, Original recording reissued CD Release Date: 2001-06-05 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Live at the BBC Album
Free Music Review: Re-Introducing the Beatles On Vintage Live BBC Set
Hit: 5 Stars
This delightful 2CD historical document stemmed from the popular "Beatles At The Beeb" syndicated radio show, drawn from the band's 1962-65 live appearances for the British Broadcasting Corporation. It was as close as the world's best known rock and roll band came to a surprise hit, selling more than four million copies at Christmas 1994. This surprised label executives and surviving members, opening the floodgates for 1995-96's "Anthology" book, CD, and video series. It even encouraged the BBC to release similar revelatory sets from a generation's classic rockers (Bowie, Hendrix, Kinks, Who, Yardbirds, Zeppelin)."Live At The BBC" thrilled new and longtime fans by reprising the Beatles at their early, cohesive, rocking best, months off their first hits and grueling Hamburg club apprenticeship. You hear exhilirating high energy and hilarity double-poured into the group's musical and show business influences. They acknowledge the Coasters ("Young Blood" ), Brill Building pop ("I Just Don't Understand," "Baby It's You," a low-fi, scintillating "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby") Tin Pan Alley ("Taste of Honey," "Till There Was You"), Chuck Berry (six songs including a rollicking "Sweet Little Sixteen" and a sloppy "Johnny B. Goode" ) and Little Richard ("Ooh! My Soul," Paul's wails on "Long Tall Sally").
The Beatles also acknowledged the criminally underrated Arthur Alexander (a polished "Soldier of Love," "A Shot Of Rhythm and Blues") and Sun rockabilly ("That's All Right Mama," George's Carl Perkins fixation on "Honey Don't" and "Matchbox"). Even then these were knowing, detailed cover songs which, played night upon night on tour, sharpened the musical personality of arguably music's ultimate hybrid band. No surprise they surrounded the hits on the group's first LPs.
As "Live At The BBC" progresses, the Beatles slowly possess the world over and above their native Britain. A welcome radio showcase becomes patriotism and due diligence by road and fame-weary superstars. You get fewer songs overall, more Lennon-McCartney compositions ("Things We Said Today," " Ticket To Ride," "She's A Woman") and, thankfully, originals they never recorded in studio ("I'll Be On My Way"). The playing sounds closer to the studio recordings, with "Hard Day's Night"'s piano solo lifted from the session tape (even with humorous asides).
The surviving Beatles and their fans had much to celebrate after this well-annotated set's success. The "Anthology" series (each reaching #1 within 12 months) toured Beatle backroads of history and studio craft, while "1"'s monstrous success took their story full circle. As the group's late publicist, Derek Taylor, concluded, "If you weren't there, than welcome now and if you haven't heard this music, please do so and know that life is indeed still good." Those words stand for those missing in 1994 or 1964; "Live At The BBC" is essential and available, a gleeful, nostalgic must-own.