Disc 1 (Line Recording):  1. Introduction, 2. Twist And Shout, 3.She's A Woman, 4. I Feel Fine, 5. Dizzy Miss Lizzy, 6. Ticket To Ride, 7. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, 8. Can't Buy Me Love, 9. Baby's In Black, 10. Act Naturally, 11. A Hard Day's Night, 12. Help!, 13. I'm Down.  King Curtis:  14. National Anthem, 15. Intermezzo,  Discotheque Dancers:  16. Medley,  King Curtis:  17. What I'd Say, 18. The Branch, 19. Soul Twist, 20. Intermezzo Cannibal & The Headhunters:  21. Out Of Sight, 22. Nau Ninny Nau, 23. The Way You Do The Things You Do, 24. Land Of 1000 Dances.  Brenda Holloway:  25. Shake/Satisfaction, 26. I Can't Help Myself, 27. You Can Cry On My Shoulder, 28. When I'm Gone

Disc 2:  Sounds Incorporated:  1. Intermezzo, 2. America, 3. William Tell Overture, 4. Instrumental, 5. In The Hall Of The Mountain Kings  (Original 1966 BBC Soundtrack):  6. Introduction, 7. Twist And Shout, 8. I Feel Fine, 9. Dizzy Miss Lizzy, 10. Ticket To Ride, 11. Act Naturally, 12. Can't Buy Me Love, 13. Baby's In Black, 14. A Hard Day's Night, 15. Help!, 16. I'm Down.  17-18. The Beatles Live At Shea described by erupting fans, part 1 and part 2
 

DVD:  
35mm Broadcast Master: Color Bars, Arthur Fiedler Introduction, Opening, I'm Down, Murray The K, The Discotheque Dancers, King Curtis Band, Brenda Holloway, Sound Incorporated, Back Stage, Ed Sullivan Intro, Twist and Shout, I Feel Fine, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Ticket to Ride, Act Naturally, Can't Buy Me Love, Baby's in Black, Hard Day's Night, Help!, I'm Down, ABC Logo - Invaders Promo 
  
Original Sound Version:  Introduction, Twist & Shout, I Feel Fine, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Ticket To Ride, Act Naturally, Can't Buy Me Love, Baby's In Black, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, I'm Down

If you want to re-baseline your live rock and roll collection and how you evaluate some of the underground releases coming from the archives, here's a great piece to experience.  What the Shea Label presents here is the complete line recording (soundboard) that was discovered in the Spring of 2007 and shared/torrented via the internet.  It is the entire tape-warts and all, including the opening acts, so it provides a really wonderful capsule of the entire events of August 16, 1965 as they happened...a date that is pretty much the benchmark of live shows for everything that came after.  It set an attendance record of 55,000 and grossed over $300,000, numbers that stood until Led Zeppelin's performance at Tampa Stadium on May 5, 1973. 

Also supplemented on the audio-side is the original Brian Epstein/Ed Sullivan-produced BBC soundtrack (aired in the UK on May 1, 1966 and in America on ABC-TV January 10, 1967) and has been the source of bootleg releases for all these years but is tainted by massive overdubs in post-production.  It is interesting to compare the two sources and understand what the technical issues were that prompted such overdubs by the band.  It's clear the raw board tape wasn't suitable for the masses, but I tend to enjoy the new source for that very reason - and really, isn't that the allure of bootlegs anyway?  We want what we aren't, or weren't, supposed to hear.  The new line recording is clear, but challenged in terms of balance and logistics of the set up onstage.  Many times the lead vocals are buried and Paul's bass is overwhelming at times, introducing some line humming (watch your volume levels!).   The instruments were also out of tune and Ringo's off-key vocals on "Act Naturally" prompted the use of the official recording overdubbed for the broadcast version.  However, the big news with the new recording is that we now get the two missing tracks from the performance ("She's A Woman" and "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" were cut from the broadcast production of the show) and the entire performance is presented in it's proper sequencing.

The opening acts are pure atmosphere here and provide a sense of magnitude of this Stadium production.  This is history, period.  It's a chance to experience the anticipation and the nostalgia that it is.  Such an important event and this package from Shea seems to be the best documents of the event in terms of both audio and video.  The packaging award goes to the 2CD set of the line recording from His Master's Choice, also released this Summer, and presented in hardbound book style. Very nice.  Both MisterClaudel and Shea added the DVD piece to the mix and Shea's version wins here.  The proshot document gives us a glimpse of the mania ensuing in the stands as well as the relatively serene look at the boys backstage getting ready for the show, intersparsed with clips of the opening acts leading up to the introduction of The Beatles - as well as the incomplete black & white film of the actual performance with the aforementioned missing songs, missing here.  And the 35mm broadcast master is my preference on the DVD with a fine synching job.  Also provided is the "Original Sound Version" with the overdubs. So we have both versions of the film, thus everything we could want from a media standpoint.  Had this been packaged like His Master's Choice we would have the entire time capsule complete.  Shea's packaging is merely adequate but still offers a classy enough shell.