Stereo tracks from 1983 show.
Shown at Abbey Road Video Show
between July 18, 1983-September 11, 1983.

Love Me Do

How Do You Do It ?

I Saw Her Standing There (Seventeen)

Twist & Shout

One After 909

Don't Bother Me

A Hard Days Night

Leave My Kitten Alone

I'm A Loser

She's A Woman

Ticket To Ride

Help!

Norwegian Wood

I'm Looking Through You

Paperback Writer

Rain

Penny Lane

Strawberry Fields Forever

A Day In The Life

Hello Goodbye

Lady Madonna

Hey Jude

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Because

Ringo Message

Outtakes Medley

In 1983, for the first and only time, the doors to Abbey Road's famous studio  were opened to the public, for a tour and audio-video presentation, Fans  were treated to a tour of the famous Number 2 Studio, which had remained  virtually unchanged from the days of the sixties where the Beatles recorded  from 1962-1969.
Starting July 11th, the doors were opened seven days a week through September  11th, with three shows per day at 10:30 am, 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets sold for about $7.00 U.S. In all, the presentation and tour was given  168 times. After a short tour of the facility, the fans were seated in the  Number 2 Studio for a ninety minute video presentation featuring rare fiimclips  and promotional videos with previously unreleased Beatles recordings. This  was the first time that EMI had ever permitted the public performance of  Beatles outtakes. Free refreshments were served, and in one corner was a  booth offering T-shirts, posters, stickers, road signs, postcards and other  Beatles souvenirs.

Ticket sales were handled directly by EMI and Abbey Road Studios. EMI said  at the time that this was the first time that the public was invited into  Abbey Road Studios, AND that it would be the last time, never to happen again.

Not too long after the July 18th opening, a fan was caught trying to make  an audio recording of the show. Immediately, EMI had metal detectors installed  in the hallway leading into the studio that everyone had to pass through  to get inside for the presentation. In the studio, several signs were posted  on the walls that stated: "Absolutely no sound recordings may be made of  this presentation". Fans being determined, and with word out from previous  visitors about how great the outtakes were, three U.S. collectors managed  to sneak in a compact Sony cassette player and record the entire show from  start to finish, in stereo. Their story was told in an interview some years  back - they had each taken with them a shopping bag filled with "tourist"  items, as if they had been shopping all day. Hidden inside one bag was the  Sony tape recorder. In another, the microphone and batteries, and in the  third, blank tapes.

The recording items were buried in the bottom of the bags, with souvenirs  covering the top. Nervous about doing this, they said the twenty minute wait  in line seemed like forever. They had no idea about the metal detectors inside,  and almost gave up and turned back when they rounded the corner of the hallway  and saw the guards and detectors. Deciding to take a chance anyway, and confident  knowing the recording equipment was spread out in different bags, they headed  forward....

Amazingly, when they got to the search point, the guard looked in the bags  quickly, passed them AROUND the metal detector, and directed them through  the detectors - sans bags(!) and then handed the bags BACK to them on the  other side of the detector!!! They could not believe that they got into the  Abbey Road presentation with a tape recorder! At this time, of course, they  were ecstatic, as they KNEW they would soon have a recording of the entire  show. Once inside they toured the studio, enjoyed soft drinks and donuts  and took several photos, including one of the "absolutely no sound recordings  ..." sign, which was later printed inside the gatefold LP cover. Upon being  seated for the show, they all sat together and carefully pulled the parts  from their bags to prepare recording. One of them sat perfectly still holding  the microphone for the entire ninety minute presentation. The tape was reviewed  in the cab on the way back to the hotel and all three fans were blown away,  the recording had turned out incredible. Upon their return to the U.S., a  cover was designed and in early 1984 the recording was issued as a double  album gatetold set, The Beatles Live at Abbey Road Studios (ARS  2 9083). Eagerly received by collectors and considered a landmark album,  it quickly sold out. A few months later, it was copied and reissued, identical  to the original except the cover artwork was blurry and the labels were blank  white. In the late 1980s a Japanese CD version, Abbey Road Show was issued in excellent quality stereo (ARS83-2). A different audience tape  appeared on the European bootleg, In Abbey Road (Beatles Fan Records  A/B). Different mixes of many of the same performances appeared throughout  the Ultra Rare series.
Enjoy now in this "Reel to Real Collection" all tracks from this  1983 Video Show as recorded and compiled by an EMI employee. The voice-over  by narrator Roger Scott has been left out for obvious reasons.

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