The Beatles had a brief release of Bootlegs today but just hours after the album was released to iTunes it was deleted.
Thank the copyright laws in Europe for today’s surprise release of Bootleg Recordings 1963 by the Beatles.However, the brief “official” release has extended the copyright of the recordings for another 20 years.
In Australia, iTunes has the album available for a very short time but it was removed from sales early Tuesday. However, illegal downloads of the album became popular on bit torrent sites soon after.
In Europe, copyright on unreleased material runs out after fifty years, sending the material to the public domain where anybody can release the music in any format. That’s why record companies are starting to release albums of archive material that they deem may have some future commercial use to preserve the copyright for the full 70 years currently allowed by law. Columbia used this plan to preserve some of Bob Dylan’s earliest material last year with a digital release.
Here, we get Beatles’ studio sessions and broadcast performances of some of their best known early songs such as There’s a Place, Do You Want to Know a Secret?, From Me to You, Love Me Do, I Saw Her Standing There, She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. Also included are two unreleased songs, Bad to Me and I’m In Love, that have previously been widely bootlegged.
Track List:
There’s a Place – Takes 5, 6
There’s a Place – Take 8
There’s a Place – Take 9
Do You Want to Know a Secret – Track 2, Take 7
A Taste of Honey – Track 2, Take 6
I Saw Her Standing There – Take 2
Misery – Take 1
Misery – Take 7
From Me to You – Take 1 & 2
From Me to You – Take 5
Thank You Girl – Take 1
Thank You Girl – Take 5
One After 909 – Take 1 & 2
Hold Me Tight – Take 21
Money (That’s What I Want) – RM 7 Undubbed
Some Other Guy – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / January 26, 1963
Love Me Do – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / January 26, 1963
Too Much Monkey Business – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / March 16, 1963
I Saw Her Standing There – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / March 16, 1963
Do You Want to Know a Secret – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / May 25, 1963
From Me to You – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / May 26, 1963
I Got To Find My Baby – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / January 26, 1963
Roll Over Beethoven – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / June 29, 1963
A Taste of Honey – Live at the BBC For Easy Beat / June 23, 1963
Love Me Do – Live at the BBC For Easy Beat / October 20, 1963
Please Please Me – Live at the BBC For Easy Beat / October 20, 1963
She Loves You – Live at the BBC For Easy Beat / October 20, 1963
I Want To Hold Your Hand – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / December 21, 1963
Till There Was You – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / December 21, 1963
Roll Over Beethoveen – Live at the BBC For Saturday Club / December 21, 1963
You Really Got A Hold On Me – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / June 4, 1963
The Hippy Hippy Shake – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / June 4, 1963
Till There Was You – Live at the For Pop Go The Beatles / June 11, 1963
A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / June 18, 1963
A Taste Of Honey – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / June 18, 1963
Money (That’s What I Want) – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / June 18, 1963
Anna – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / June 25, 1963
Love Me Do – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 10, 1963
She Loves You – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 24, 1963
I’ll Get You – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 10, 1963
A Taste of Honey – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 10, 1963
Boys – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 17, 1963
Chains – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 17, 1963
You Really Got A Hold On Me – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 17, 1963
I Saw Her Standing There – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 24, 1963
She Loves You – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 10, 1963
Twist and Shout – Live at the BBC For Pop Go The Beatles / September 24, 1963
Do You Want to Know a Secret – Live at the BBC For Here We Go / May 12, 1963
Please Please Me – Live at the BBC For Here We Go / May 12, 1963
Long Tall Sally – Live at the BBC For Side By Side / May 13, 1963
Chains – Live at the BBC For Side By Side / May 13, 1963
Boys – Live at the BBC For Side By Side / May 13, 1963
A Taste of Honey – Live at the BBC For Side By Side / May 13, 1963
Roll Over Beethoven – Live at the BBC For From Us To You / December 26, 1963
All My Loving – Live at the BBC For From Us To You / December 26, 1963
She Loves You – Live at the BBC For From Us To You / December 26, 1963
Till There Was You – Live at the BBC For From Us To You / December 26, 1963
Bad to Me – Demo
I’m in Love – Demo
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