The first and rejected recording of Beatles by auction

This 1961’s recording was the first of Silver Beatles, the first name of English mythic group (with drummer Pete Best who was replaced after his dismissal by Ringo Starr), registered for Degga. The producer Dick Rowe wasn’t convinced and rejected the group to signed TheTremeloes. He said to the Group’s Manager, Brian Epstein, that “guitar groups are on their way out” and that the Beatles themselves “have no future in show business.” After this important blunder, he was signed also The Rolling Stones but it was a special story of Pop Music. The Manager will pass on its to EMI, the future Beatles’ label.

This recording was send by a EMI anonymous director in 2002 to a music collector. It will auctioned 11/27/12 in London to have set the minimum bid at about $30,000. This curiosity with 10 songs was a copy of the USA sound in this period, like Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry. With the recording, it has note with the name of songs and photography with the group in black leather jacket and instruments in the hand. The sound was declared than “quality we have never heard” but it was impossible to send the audio because the rights are detained by Apple, the company created by them, which manage the copyright of voices of Fab Four. Never less, some pirate copies circulate on the web but never financially.

 Maïwenn B., week 8 (232 words)

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/a-beatles-mystery-tour-auction-offers-tape-described-as-copy-of-first-audition/