A extremely rare recording of the Beatles discovered by a Vancouver – Liberation record store

The missive was published on Instagram on March 12, challenging the official accounts of Paul McCartney and Feus George Harrison And John Lennon :: « I got my hands on this band a few years ago, labeled » Beatles Demos « . I naturally told myself that it was the band of a pirate disc. But after hearing it for the first time last night, she sounds like a master’s band. The sound quality is unimaginable. How is it only possible to have in my possession what seems to be a master’s beatles band of the Decca label, with 15 songs on it? ”

In reality, the content of the find, labeled « Beatles Beatles 60s Demos », is known to collectors, since the songs circulated in the form of a pirate album in the 1970s. But Rob Frith, taulier of the recorder Neptoon Records, located in Vancouver (Canada), and his friend Larry Hennessey, who has his own studio for the transfer and preservation of recordings, were right to be surprised by the appearance of the coil – each song separated by a white strip section – and sound quality.

The artifact acquired by Frith a little by chance, undoubtedly within a lot, and of which he had not concerned himself to throw an ear for years, is a demo recorded on January 1, 1962 by the Beatles at Decca Studios de London. It is after listening to this « Tape hearing » That Decca refused to sign the group, which found refuge at Parlophone three months later.

According to CBC News, The one who reportedly reported the band in his suitcase from the United Kingdom would have come forward with Rob Frith after his publication on Instagram. It is Jack Herschorn, former owner of the Canadian label Mushroom Records, to whom an English producer would have entrusted the recording so that he published it in Bootleg in the early 1970s. What Herschorn would have declined for reasons « Morals », Before abandoning it in the premises of Mushroom when leaving society.

How these « Beatles Beatles 60s Demos » came to the Neptoon Records reserve, between how many hands have they passed in the meantime, only the band knows. Rob Frith has no intention of reselling it, but has already offered Paul McCartney to hand over him, if he wanted to make the trip to Vancouver.