New York, NY (Top40 Charts / Apple Corps Ltd./UMG) Apple Corps Ltd. and Universal
Music Group are pleased to announce global release plans for 'The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl,' a new album that captures the joyous exuberance of the band's three sold-out concerts at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl in 1964 and 1965. A companion to 'The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years,' Academy Award(R)-winner Ron Howard's authorized and highly anticipated documentary feature film about the band's early career,...
While The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl references the long out of print 1977 album, it is an entirely new release, directly sourced from the original three track tapes of the concerts. To preserve the excitement of the shows while unveiling the performances in today's best available clarity and quality, GRAMMY Award® winning producer Giles
Martin and GRAMMY Award® winning engineer Sam Okell have expertly remixed and mastered the recordings at Abbey Road Studios, including the thirteen tracks from the original album produced by Giles' father, plus four additional, previously unreleased recordings from the momentous concerts.
"A few years ago Capitol Studios called saying they'd discovered some Hollywood Bowl three track tapes in their archive," says Giles Martin. "We transferred them and noticed an improvement over the tapes we've kept in the London archive. Alongside this I'd been working for some time with a team headed by technical engineer
James Clarke on demix technology, the ability to remove and separate sounds from a single track. With Sam Okell, I started work on remixing the Hollywood Bowl tapes. Technology has moved on since my father worked on the material all those years ago. Now there's improved clarity, and so the immediacy and visceral excitement can be heard like never before. My father's words still ring true, but what we hear now is the raw energy of four lads playing together to a crowd that loved them. This is the closest you can get to being at the Hollywood Bowl at the height of Beatlemania. We hope you enjoy the show!"
Featuring rare and exclusive footage, Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles' career (1962-1966) - the period in which they toured and captured the world's acclaim. The film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and
Olivia Harrison. The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years touches on the band's Hollywood Bowl concerts and includes footage of the "Boys" performance featured on The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl.
White Horse Pictures' GRAMMY Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci, and Academy Award and Emmy Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment are producing with Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.'s Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde are serving as executive producers, along with Imagine's Michael Rosenberg and White Horse's Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall.
Following a world premiere event in London on
September 15, the film will roll out theatrically worldwide with release dates set in the U.K., France and Germany (September 15); the U.S., Australia and New Zealand (September 16); and Japan (September 22). In the U.S., Hulu is the presenting partner for Abramorama's theatrical release of the film, which will be available to stream exclusively to Hulu subscribers beginning
September 17. Studiocanal and PolyGram Entertainment are also anchor partners on the film, having acquired U.K., France, Germany and Australia and New Zealand rights. For more information about the film, visit www.thebeatleseightdaysaweek.com.
