The Beatles USA, Philadelpia Convention Hall, Melbourne, 2nd September 1964 (Vinyl, AVA, 2018) ***
The Beatles France, Paris Palais Des Sports, 20th June 1965 (Vinyl, AVA, 2018) **
The Beatles Blackpool, ABC Theatre, 19th July and 1st August 1965 (Vinyl, AVA, 2018) ****
The Beatles Japan, Budokan Hall, Tokyo, 30th June 1966 (Vinyl, AVA, 2018) ****
Genre: Beatles pop
Places I remember: EMI (Vienna). Jacky and I were in Vienna to see the famous Spanish horses show and I had to stop off at the EMI shop while we were there (sadly we didn't get to eat chocolate cake in a bag), where I found this.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Boys (Philadelphia) - Ringo fair tears into this in proto-punk fashion.
Gear costume: If I Fell (just as if) (Blackpool); Yesterday (Blackpool); Paperback Writer (Japan). Who says the harmonies didn't work live? These are great versions - clearly they could hear themselves and George/John's banter around Paul's solo version of Yesterday in Blackpool is hilarious!
Active compensatory factors: This is a limited edition five album boxed set (titled Home and Away '64 - '66). My copy is number 324 of 1,000.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Boys (Philadelphia) - Ringo fair tears into this in proto-punk fashion.
Gear costume: If I Fell (just as if) (Blackpool); Yesterday (Blackpool); Paperback Writer (Japan). Who says the harmonies didn't work live? These are great versions - clearly they could hear themselves and George/John's banter around Paul's solo version of Yesterday in Blackpool is hilarious!
Active compensatory factors: This is a limited edition five album boxed set (titled Home and Away '64 - '66). My copy is number 324 of 1,000.
The French one suffers from a slightly inferior sound to the others and Paul's attempts at French are terrible!
The early ones in Australia and the USA have all the atmosphere but Blackpool and Japan sound mighty good. You get a great sense of what a dynamite live band they were but the sets are very short - blink and you miss them versions of songs became the standard operating procedure during Beatlemania.
Where do they all belong? A return to The Anthology videos where you can see and hear some of these performances. That's it now for Beatles LPs.
Where do they all belong? A return to The Anthology videos where you can see and hear some of these performances. That's it now for Beatles LPs.
Next up in the Beatles' pop genre - George solo albums.
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