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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Beatle Greetings | |||
| 2. From Us To You | |||
| 3. Riding On A Bus | |||
| 4. I Got A Woman | |||
| 5. Too Much Monkey Business | |||
| 6. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby | |||
| 7. I'll Be On My Way | |||
| 8. Young Blood | |||
| 9. Shot Of Rhythm And Blues | |||
| 10. Sure To Fall (In Love With You) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Crinsk Dee Night | |||
| 2. Hard Day's Night | |||
| 3. Have A Banana | |||
| 4. I Wanna Be Your Man | |||
| 5. Just A Rumour | |||
| 6. Roll Over Beethoven | |||
| 7. All My Loving | |||
| 8. Things We Said Today | |||
| 9. She's A Woman | |||
| 10. Sweet Little Sixteen | |||
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Although the guitars are often electric, LIVE AT THE BBC is, essentially, the Beatles Unplugged--yanked out of the recording studio, gathered around a few microphones and encouraged to show off their raw craft, naked voices and rock'n'rollroots. MTV didn't exist in the early '60s, but the BBC did,and between March 1962 and June 1965 (a period that spans their first four albums and takes them from the simplicity of"Love Me Do" to the complexities of "Ticket To Ride") the Beatles performed 52 times on England's national radio network. Although they had honed their craft in British and Germanrock clubs, the Beatles were mostly known as a studio band,and the radio shows served as a sort of behind-the-curtainsglimpse of the studio wizards.
Most of these performances are covers of early rock, pop and country songs, and the scope of them is wider and deeper than the covers the Beatlesput on their albums. There are obvious influences--Chuck Berry, Elvis and Little Richard rockers, and traditional pop ballads--along with lesser-known pop footholds that hint at how/where the Beatles bridged the gap between rock's teen-ageyears and its adulthood. They covered soul singer Arthur Alexander only once on their original records ("Anna"), but twice here, and the combination of R&B drive and complex pop changes that fuels both "Soldier Of Love" and "A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues" gives away one of the primary sources of Beatles style. John Lennon's vocal on "I Just Don't Understand", an Ann-Margret pop song, foreshadows the downbeat folk-rock with which the Beatles made their mark in the mid-'60s.
Abaker's dozen of Lennon/McCartney originals are spread through the set, including one, a jangly folk-rocker titled "I'll Be On My Way", that they never recorded. The John-Paul-George harmonies are in full bloom, as is the Beatlesque sense of humor. There's one terribly obvious overdub, but the restof LIVE AT THE BBC sounds like rock'n'roll's greatest living-room sessions.
Although the guitars are often electric, LIVE AT THE BBC is, essentially, the Beatles Unplugged--yanked out of the recording studio, gathered around a few microphones and encouraged to show off their raw craft, naked voices and rock'n'rollroots. MTV didn't exist in the early '60s, but the BBC did,and between March 1962 and June 1965 (a period that spans their first four albums and takes them from the simplicity of"Love Me Do" to the complexities of "Ticket To Ride") the Beatles performed 52 times on England's national radio network. Although they had honed their craft in British and Germanrock clubs, the Beatles were mostly known as a studio band,and the radio shows served as a sort of behind-the-curtainsglimpse of the studio wizards.
Most of these performances are covers of early rock, pop and country songs, and the scope of them is wider and deeper than the covers the Beatlesput on their albums. There are obvious influences--Chuck Berry, Elvis and Little Richard rockers, and traditional pop ballads--along with lesser-known pop footholds that hint at how/where the Beatles bridged the gap between rock's teen-ageyears and its adulthood. They covered soul singer Arthur Alexander only once on their original records ("Anna"), but twice here, and the combination of R&B drive and complex pop changes that fuels both "Soldier Of Love" and "A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues" gives away one of the primary sources of Beatles style. John Lennon's vocal on "I Just Don't Understand", an Ann-Margret pop song, foreshadows the downbeat folk-rock with which the Beatles made their mark in the mid-'60s.
Abaker's dozen of Lennon/McCartney originals are spread through the set, including one, a jangly folk-rocker titled "I'll Be On My Way", that they never recorded. The John-Paul-George harmonies are in full bloom, as is the Beatlesque sense of humor. There's one terribly obvious overdub, but the restof LIVE AT THE BBC sounds like rock'n'roll's greatest living-room sessions.