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Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 is
a double album featuring live performances by The Beatles ,
recorded in late December 1962 at the Star-Club during their
final Hamburg residency. The album was released in 1977 in
two different versions, comprising a total of 30 songs by
The Beatles. The performances were recorded on a home tape machine using a single microphone, resulting in a low fidelity recording. Ted "Kingsize" Taylor began to investigate possible marketing of the tapes in 1973. The tapes were eventually bought by Paul Murphy and subjected to extensive audio processing to improve the sound, leading to the 1977 album. Lingasong Records was a record label formed by Paul Murphy of Buk Records for the sole purpose of producing and marketing The Beatles ' live album "Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962". (from Wikipedia) |
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TRACK LISTING
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SIDE 1 | Twist And Shout (Medley, Russell) | |||
| SIDE 2 | Falling In Love Again (Hollander, Connelly) | ||||
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RELEASE DATE
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Demonstration Record (First Press: 24th. June 1977) | ||||
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Yellow label with black ink and, on the A-side, a large "A" over the center of the label. |  |
"(P) 1977" statement and "Lingasong Limited" were printed at the right part of the label. | |
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Matrix suffixed with "1E" on both side (hand writing). | ||
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OTHER ITEM
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CATALOG NUMBER
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NB 1 | ||||
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LABEL
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Lingasong Yellow label (Demonstration label) | ||||
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MIX
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Mono | ||||
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VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | ||||
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PRODUCER
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COVER DESIGN/
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Plain white sleeve. | ||||
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RECORD COMPANY'S
NAME
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Lingasong Records | ||||
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PUBLISHER'S NAME
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SIDE 1 | Robert Mellin Ltd. | |||
| SIDE 2 | Campbell Connelly & Co. Ltd. | ||||
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CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K..." |
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COMMENTS
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Demonstration Record. Two tracks taken from the "Live At The Star Club In Hamburg, Germany 1962" Double LP. Recorded by Ted "Kingsize" Taylor on a portable tape recorder on December 31st 1962, this release failed to chart. |
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TRACK LISTING
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SIDE 1 | Twist And Shout (Medley, Russell) | |||
| SIDE 2 | Falling In Love Again (Hollander, Connelly) | ||||
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RELEASE DATE
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24th. June 1977 / First Press |
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Yellow label with black ink. "Lingasong Records" logo was printed at the top of the label. |
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With Push-out center. With Polo ring on side-2. |
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Both tracks taken from the album The Beatles Live! At The Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962, Lingasong LNL 1, which was released on 25 May 1977. | |||
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OTHER ITEM
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CATALOG NUMBER
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NB 1 | ||||
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LABEL
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Lingasong Yellow label | ||||
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MIX
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Mono | ||||
| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | NB 1 - A - 1E
DAVE'S RCA M'
A/B (hand writing) |
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| SIDE 2 | NB 1 - B - 1E A/G M (hand writing) | ||||
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VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | ||||
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PRODUCER
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COVER DESIGN/
PHOTO/ NOTES
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Generic tan sleeve or plain white
sleeve |
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RECORD COMPANY'S
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Lingasong Records | ||||
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PUBLISHER'S NAME
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SIDE 1 | Robert Mellin Ltd. | |||
| SIDE 2 | Campbell Connelly & Co. Ltd. | ||||
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CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K..." |
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COMMENTS
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Both tracks taken from
the album The Beatles Live! At The Star-Club in Hamburg,
Germany; 1962, Lingasong LNL 1, which was released on 25 May
1977. Recorded by Ted "Kingsize" Taylor on a portable tape recorder on December 31st 1962, this release failed to chart. In the 1983 second edition of his excellent Beatles discography The Long And Winding Road Neville Stannard wrote the following: (from 45cat) The album (a double LP) was originally issued in Germany on the Bellaphon label on 8 April 1977, and was officially released in the UK after The Beatles had failed to prevent its release with a court injunction. The tapes were recorded at the request of Liverpool singer Ted "Kingsize" Taylor, who asked a friend, Adrian Barber, to record some shows on a mono Grundig tape recorder, using a hand held microphone. The tapes, as well as The Beatles performance, included Taylor's own group, The Dominos, and Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers. Taylor offered the tapes to Brian Epstein, who would only offer him £20 for them, as he felt they had no commercial value. Taylor gave the tapes to a recording engineer in the hope that they might eventually be released. The engineer later moved from his premises in Hackins Hey, Liverpool, leaving the tapes behind in the derelict offices for many years. Allan Williams, who managed The Beatles for several months before Brian Epstein, had a chance meeting with the engineer in 1972, and was told that the tapes might still be in the old house. The engineer and Kingsize Taylor went to the old offices and found the tapes under a pile of rubbish, and Williams then set about trying to get the tapes released, starting by having talks with George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Williams tried to do a deal with the two Beatles, but neither George nor Ringo were willing to hand over the required five thousand pounds to Williams, as this was the time when Apple and The Beatles were experiencing financial difficulties. After being turned down by Apple and EMI, Williams eventually sold the tapes to Paul Murphy, Head of BUK Records (who once worked for Polydor as a producer). Murphy later gave distribution rights to New York based Double H Licensing Corp. £50,000 was spent cleaning up the tapes, using various techniques, and transferring the original mono recordings to sixteen track tape. Double H licensed the authorised Bellaphon Records to release the records in Germany; German copyright laws are different from those in Britain, and it was anticipated that lawsuits might follow. When the package was later released in Britain on the Lingasong label - via RCA - The Beatles did file an injunction to stop the records being sold. However, because the courts ruled that the tapes were of historical interest, and that the records were being sold for what they plainly were - old recordings (which was plainly stated on the sleeve) - the injunction was overruled on 5 April 1977. Therefore no lawsuit followed. The courts also ruled that The Beatles should have sued at an earlier date instead of waiting until the records had been released. The recording was made in December 1962. Had Brian Epstein but realised in 1963, when he was offered the tapes, The Beatles were already under contract to EMI in December 1962, and therefore the tapes legally belonged to Parlophone anyway. At the time of the recording the line-up of The Beatles was George on lead guitar, John on rhythm guitar, Paul on bass and Ringo on drums. Ringo by this time had officially joined the group, and was not, as stated on the record sleeve, "sitting in" for Pete Best. Ringo had joined the group by the time they recorded Love Me Do in September 1962, and thus would have been the group's permanent and official drummer in December 1962. |
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