Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42704 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-07-30
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 44 minutes

Synopsis
Recorded live in Budokan in Japan, 1966. Tracks include 'She's The Woman', 'If I Needed Someone', 'Day Tripper', 'I Feel Fine', 'Yesterday', 'I Wanna Be Your Man', 'Nowhere Man' and 'Paperback Writer'.

Customer Reviews

NOT The Beatles at their best but still fascinating
These Tokyo concerts are famous amongst Beatles collectors for a number of reasons, not least because two of them were filmed in colour and have circulated as good quality bootlegs for many years.

Unfortunately,they are also famous for the below-par peformance turned in by the Lads. It is well-knon that they did very little rehearsal for their 1966 tour, having lost interest in live performing by this time, and it shows, particularly on George Harrison's vocal performance of If I Needed Someone.

Compounding the problem is the Japnese audience who remain pretty quiet throughout the gigs, allowing The Beatles' occasional sloppines to be heard with unaccustomed clarity.

Better examples of the Beatles live exist on film, particularly the excellent performance from Paris 1965. However, if the Tokyo concert/s is finally getting an official release then this is to be welcomed, as even a sub-standard Beatles performance is better than most other live offerings available from this period.

A fascinating and rare glimpse of The Beatles live concert experience.

Approach with caution - this is a copy of a bootleg!
It is wonderful to have this item available through a "regular" outlet however, this dvd appears to be a copy of a bootleg dvd that is circulating. If someone has other information, please let us know.

Note: during the interview portion of the video, it is clear that the video is copied from a tv screen as the reflection of the camera is visible during portions of the film!

Beatles At The Budokan
As the other reviews have stated, this is not an 'official' Beatles release and has nothing to do with Apple.

Because of this, I was unsure whether to purchase the DVD. I assumed the picture and audio quality would be extremely poor, but I was very pleasantly surprised. The picture is very good and the audio is excellent.

The quality of the footage is no worse than the footage from the concert included on the Beatles Anthology DVD set. I would certainly recommend it. It is one of the few Beatles concerts where you can clearly hear them playing, as they are not drowned by the screams from fans,