The Beatles Live Project - possible byproducts
In 2014, we saw a flurry of new releases from The Beatles/Apple/Universal Music/Calderstone. The US albums on CD, the Japan albums on CD, the mono vinyl albums, the Long Tall Sally EP, what have you. In 2015, so far it looks like everything is geared towards The Beatles Live Project, for which we have no date yet.
As it has presented to us so far, the Beatles Live Project is a documentary about the Beatles' live years 1963-1966, as seen through the eyes of the fans. It will have amateur footage from the shows, as well as interviews with fans, promoters and the like, in addition to more professionally shot footage of the Beatles in concert.
But the possibilities of releasing material in the wake of the film seems to be too tempting for Universal Music to miss out on the opportunity. And in selecting stuff to include, The Beatles Live Project itself will have digitised and cleaned up a lot of archive material, both sound and picturewise.
Among the material collected by the filmmakers, there are two items Beatlesfans have been complaining about the non-availability for decades: The Hollywood Bowl live album, so far only available on vinyl and cassettes, and The Beatles at Shea Stadium, so far only having been televised.
It would be foolish not to release these as byproducts of The Beatles Live Project, and they can easily both be made available through iTunes.
Here's our list of candidates for Beatles releases in 2015:
VIDEO
The Beatles Come To Town - (Manchester, England, November 1963)
The Beatles First US Concert (Washington D.C. February 1964)
The Beatles Sing For Shell (Melbourne, Australia, June 1964)
The Beatles at the Palais de Sports (Paris, June 1965)
The Beatles At Shea Stadium (New York, N.Y., August 1965)
The Beatles at Budokan (Tokyo, Japan June/July 1966)
of these, the Washington is already on iTunes, although only available if you buy the complete Beatles collection.
AUDIO
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, 1962
It's The Beatles, Empire Theatre, Liverpool, 1963
Live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1964
Live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1965
The Beatles in concert at the Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX, 1965
Candlestick Park, San Francisco, August 1966 (for historic purposes)
MEMORABILIA
You just know they're going to cook up SOMETHING for this, the Beatles' most lucrative business in later years.
The Beatles as solo artists have already published a few videos to iTunes, and as The Beatles, two videos from the Let It Be...Naked project is available.
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