Does anyone actually know why Beatles Live at Hollywood Bowl is not available on CD?

Probably the same reason as always with beatles stuff... They release things very slowly to be able to put out a new semi-interesting album very other year or something. Though there are no official release there are a great bootleg cd version around.

The Hollywood Bowl album was released in 1977 by Capital Records (USA), so it wasn't among the first Beatles cds released in the 80s by EMI (UK). Capitol has recently released 8 of the US albums (2 box sets of 4 albums each) in the sequence of their original release on LP in the 60s. We can only speculate about further releases from Capital, but the 'Hollywood Bowl" album would likely be part of a third (or forth?) box set from Capital.

They're probably trying to develop a digital filter to remove all the screaming so you can hear the music.

See ya
Steve

Hehheh, good one. Really though, that album can't be thought of as listenable unless you're looking to induce a migraine from the constant screaming (what producer George Martin likened to the blast of a jet engine). My guess is, whoever's in charge of EMI/Capitol now disagrees with their having released the LP in the first place.

Well. There was no Capitol box released this year. So our hope for an official Hollywood Bowl is fading away.

If this was on DVD I would buy it. They have a lot of beatles live albums.

Given the apparent internal bitching, it's a wonder there are any Beatles CDs.

Don't forget, we don't even have the first four official UK albums available on CD in stereo yet, or the others in mono.

We (finally) have the Capitol versions in both stereo and mono, but they're remixes.

As for DVDs - I assume they're saving all that material for something special. Even beyond Anthology, there must be a few gems in the archives.

Cheers,
David.

There is a nice bootleg around........................

http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=...4&section=1

Cheers,
JHB.