Six uncommon Beatles tapes are presently up for public sale at Gotta Have Rock and Roll.
The tapes, dubbed “The Beatles Derek Taylor Never-Before-Heard Collection of Lost Beatles Recordings,” comprise a number of unreleased songs, rehearsal recordings and interviews by the members.
According to the public sale web page, the tapes are anticipated to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000.
What’s on the Rare Beatles Tapes?
Tape One contains rehearsals for the Sgt. Pepper album, recorded in late 1966 and early 1967, plus some farm animal noises, vocals in varied accents and a snippet of Paul McCartney complaining concerning the warmth.
Tape Two has extra voice accents by George Harrison and finds the guitarist jamming with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in addition to a rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Jimmy Page, based on the public sale website. (Eric Clapton performs the guitar solo on the launched album model of that tune.) Tape Three contains extra of Harrison with the Doo-Dah Band.
Tape Four switches gears to a 45-minute interview with John Lennon, who is requested about Yoko Ono’s intentions with him and, because the public sale web page describes it, “discusses very personal matters, very revealing.” Tape Five options Ono. Clocking in at shut to 2 hours, the tape incorporates some of Ono’s primal scream remedy and a dialogue of Lennon.
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Tape six, which was recorded round Christmas, contains Lennon taking part in acoustic guitar and singing songs written by himself and Kyoko Chan Cox, Ono’s daughter from her first marriage.
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