Product Code: 7243 8 31796 1 9
Artist: Beatles The
Origin: UK & Europe
Label: Apple Records (1994)
Format: LP
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Condition:
Cover: NM (M-)
Record: NM (M-)
Genre: Pop U

Live At The BBC

Very smart clean vinyl housed in a nice gloss gatefold cover and inner sleeves.

Live at the BBC is a 1994 live/compilation album featuring performances by the Beatles that were originally broadcast on various BBC Light Programme radio shows from 1963 to 1965. The mono album, available in multiple formats but most commonly as a two-CD set, consists of 56 songs and 13 tracks of dialogue; 30 of the songs had never been issued previously by the Beatles. It was the first official release by The Beatles of previously unissued performances since The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1977, and the first containing previously unreleased songs since Let It Be in 1970.

Although the songs were recorded ahead of broadcast, allowing for retakes and occasional overdubbing, they are essentially "live in studio" performances. Most of the songs are cover versions of material from the late 1950s and early 1960s, reflecting the stage set they developed before Beatlemania. Before the album's release, comprehensive collections of The Beatles' BBC performances had become available on bootlegs.