The first live recording ever made by the classic Beatles line-up was rescued out of a private collector’s vaults and is coming to fans later this year via Fuego Entertainment.
The tape, which was made in 1962 at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany months before the band inked with EMI, collects a 15-song set played to an audience estimated at 20 or 30 people. The tape, which was purchased by British concert promoter Jeffery Collins and kept in his personal collection for more than 45 years, is the first known recording of the John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr line-up of the band, recorded shortly after Starr replaced original Beatles drummer Pete Best.
The Beatles – “Some Other Guy” (live in Liverpool, 1962)