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Sep 21, 2016What Live At The Hollywood Bowl, and its parent movie, shows us is their primal power. The sound and the fury (not to mention the banter) that conjured a roar unheard since, both on and off the stage.
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Q MagazineSep 16, 2016Thanks to digital tweaking, boy does it capture them swinging and the four bonus songs are most welcome too. [Oct 2016, p.115]
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UncutSep 9, 2016This remastered version certainly sounds clearer than the muddy original. ... As far as the songs, go, there are a few surprises, just some frenzied romps through the band's greatest hits at this point. [Oct 2016, p.47]
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Sep 9, 2016Live At The Hollywood Bowl is back, with new mixes by Giles Martin that sharpen the sound but don’t ditch the screams, plus extra tracks, including a wonderful I Want To Hold Your Hand. The great lost Beatles album just became the essential new Beatles album.
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Sep 9, 2016Decades later, it's still thrilling to hear the band and the crowd feed off the excitement of the other.
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Sep 9, 2016The way the screams and music dance across these 17 songs--recorded during three nights in 1964 and 1965 and spliced into a seamless rush of manic love--is what makes Live at the Hollywood Bowl such a thrill.
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Sep 9, 2016Martin Jr’s sonic whizzery doesn’t extend to removing the screams from the recording--they continue throughout, a potent reminder of the pandemonium the Beatles generated at their touring peak--but he has brought out both the melody and muscular tautness of the band’s live performance.
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Positive: 17 out of 23
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Negative: 5 out of 23
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Sep 17, 2016
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Sep 22, 2021This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.