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Artist News
Early Beatles live recordings found in desk drawer
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 2 October 2015
A recording of The Beatles performing live in Liverpool’s Cavern Club in 1962 has been discovered, after spending 50 years sat in a desk drawer. It is now set to be auctioned off for charity next month.
According to the BBC, the recording was made for Granada TV show ‘Know The North’. The band were filmed for the programme while playing at the famous Merseyside venue, but the sound quality wasn’t good enough for broadcast, so producers went back to record just audio. And that’s the audio that has now been found. In the end it was never used because of legal issues with other acts on the show, and the recording was just filed away by producer Johnny Hamp.
In other Beatles auction news, their 1962 management contract with Brian Epstein was sold for £365,000 earlier this week. Not quite the £500,000 some expected it to go for, though more than the £240,000 it raised at its last sale in 2008.
The tape of the Cavern Club performance will be auctioned in Liverpool on 4 Nov.
