Live at the BBC (Beatles album)

Live at the BBC
Live album / compilation album by the Beatles
Released	30 November 1994 (1994-11-30)
Recorded	22 January 1963 – 26 May 1965, United Kingdom
Genre	Rhythm and blues, rock and roll
Length	133:37
Label	Apple
Producer	George Martin
Compiler	George Martin
The Beatles chronology
The Beatles Box Set (1988) Live at the BBC (1994) Anthology 1 (1995)
Singles from Live at the BBC
"Baby It's You" Released: 20 March 1995

Live at the BBC is a 1994 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 unreleased performances since The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1977 and the first containing previously unreleased songs since their final studio album, 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.

A remastered repackaging of the album was released on 11 November 2013 on the occasion of the release of On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, a second volume of BBC Radio broadcasts.^[1] The two volumes were also released as a double set.