On May 4th 1977 following the previous years excursion into remarketing the beatles a new album came out that featured recordings of their August 1964 and 1965 performances at the Hollywood Bowl in California that had been recorded for posterity by Capitol records.
1977 was several years on from the end of the Beatles with each member moving on with their own solo careers and other interests to varying degrees of success but close enough for our generation to have known fleetingly about them first hand.
In the main I was more into Paul McCartney and Wings being swept away as mid Junior boy by My Love and Band On The Run three or so years before and loving this years Mull Of Kintyre single which I also had.
While individual studio albums were still available and it was only three and a bit years since the now legendary 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 compilations had come out with myself having the latter myself in March 1977, their had been nothing that captured the feel of Beatlemania.
This album compiled of two shows, transferred from the vintage three track tapes to 24 track equalized and remixed, did capture the feel of being at a show with a typical half hour set complete with 17,000 young screams.
It was a deluxe gatefold sleeve edition that I bought on Friday December 17 from the local record shop all by myself before handing it over to Mum for safe keeping until Christmas Day when it was played.
My copy is a first edition cut by Wally Traugott at Capitol mastering with -1/-1 matrixes rather the later recuts done by Harry T Moss at Abbey Road.
The inner sleeve of the UK edition I had and the North American differed with theirs having a mocked up live photo while ours showed the currently available studio and compilation albums complete with track lists on vanilla background.
This proved useful for a thirteen year old me to plan how to build over time his beatles albums collection and put on birthday and Christmas wish lists.
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