Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Red Sails In the Sunset (unaltered account from Star Club tapes)

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Red Sails In the Sunset (unaltered account from Star Club tapes)

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Red Sails In the Sunset (unaltered account from Star Club tapes)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:54 AM PST

Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week and Happy New Year!

During the holiday season of 1962 The Beatles were busy down in Hamburg. Accounts of their Star Club recordings there are numerous, confusing and often contradictory. During the final days of December 1962, when the band was on their last stint of shows for Hamburg's Red Light district, Star Club sound man (and Big Three guitarist) Adrian Barber was working on improving the venues PA system and set up a mono recorder to record about four hours of material between Christmas and New Year's Eve. The fidelity was very limited due to the use of only a single microphone suspended from the ceiling as well as a slow recording speed to allow for more material to be fit on the tape. Much of the music on the tape is by The Beatles and there is also material from Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers and The Dominoes.

The tapes ended up with Ted "Kingsize" Taylor (lead singer of The Dominoes) who claimed John Lennon accepted a round of drinks in exchange for the rights to the recordings. About a year later, after The Beatles had gained much popularity, Ted tried to sell the tapes to Beatles manager Brian Epstein, but because of the poor sound quality, Brian only offered 20 British pounds for them and that was turned down. After trying unsuccessfully again to sell the tapes, this time to Apple, Ted teamed up with Allan Williams, The Beatles first manager...read more and hear the tune here.

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