★★★★★

Ron Howard’s superb new Beatles documentary, Eight Days a Week, shows not just how exciting but also how overwhelming the Fab Four’s brief life as a touring band was. Here were four young men facing a mania for which there was no precedent, with no received wisdom on how to cope with it.

Now comes Live at the Hollywood Bowl, taken over three concerts on August 23, 1964 and August 29 and 30, 1965, and it is remarkable that the band played as well as they did, given they couldn’t hear a thing beyond the cacophony of 17,500 teenage girls screaming in unison. You’ll hear those screams throughout, but also surprisingly clear three-track recordings of raw but tight renditions of Twist and