Contra Band Music

CBM, 1974 The bootleg debut of the Washington kinescope, from an audience screening, paired with a repressing of side 2 from an earlier CBM ...

From 1963-1965, The Beatles made several appearances on Associated-Rediffusion's live TV pop music series, Ready Steady Go! Their first ...

TMOQ, 1974 A thorough document of the August 22nd, 1964 press conference and concert, from a local radio station's broadcast and excelle...

On March 19th and 20th, 1964, during the filming of A Hard Day's Night , The Beatles were interviewed by Lyn Fairhurst for the BBC Radio...

Silver Greatest, 1971 A copy of one of the earliest bootlegs, Silver Album (second edition), compiling tracks from various Get Back acetat...

Here's a rare but atrocious-quality Beatle Chrimble interview with Atlanta DJ Paul Drew, recorded backstage at the Hammersmith Odeon dur...

Audifon, 1978 Side 1 consists of fair-quality (but rare at the time) BBC Radio performances. Side 2 has an off-air TV recording of It's ...

On June 26th, 1966, The Beatles' final world tour reached Hamburg, West Germany. What should have been a happy return to their old stomp...

Wizardo, 1975 Mostly copied from TMOQ's Spicy Beatles Songs ; supplemented by the David Frost version of "Hey Jude" and the B-...

Australian DJ "Mad" Mel met The Beatles during their June 1964 trip Down Under, and presented them with with a 10-metre long scarf...

Benbecula, 1973 Not Shea, but a copy of the Hollywood Bowl concert, minus two songs. The "3 never published songs" are "Pleas...

On November 17th, 1964, The Beatles assembled at the Playhouse Theatre in London to record music and chat for BBC Radio's Top Gear . Dur...

CBM, 1973 Off-air TV recordings from Around The Beatles , The Ed Sullivan Show , and The Beatles At Shea Stadium . Side 1: - Love Me Do/Plea...

On June 11th, 1965, it was reported that The Beatles would be made Members of the British Empire . The following day, they assembled at Twic...

Avocado, 1970 A very early Beatleg. One side of pirated singles (plus the WWF version of "Across The Universe"), one side lifted f...

The Beatles' final US tour reached the nation's capital on August 15th, 1966. In a smelly locker room deep in the bowels of DC Stadi...

ZAP, 1976 A mèlange of earlier boots, and the first "amendment" in a series of repackaged material. Side 1: - Nowhere Man - Get Ba...

Interviews with an unknown reporter during the flight from New Zealand to change planes in Sydney, bound for the final concerts in Brisbane:...

no label, 1973 Copy of a CBM bootleg; half Let It Be soundtrack, half material from the 1972 BBC Radio series The Beatles Story . Plus the ...

Reporting for Radio London, legendary DJ Kenny Everett travelled with The Beatles on their final North American tour. Here's his intervi...

CBM, 1973 By request, one of the earliest collections of BBC Radio performances. This one is copied from TMOQ's Outakes 2 , and contains...

1940-1980 Here's John promoting Walls And Bridges in a phone conversation with WABX in Detroit, September 27th, 1974. Topics include ...

TMOQ, 1971 A pirate of the Apple LP The Beatles Christmas Album . They'd like to thank you for a wonderful year. Side 1 (1963-1966) Side...

Disc jockey "Jack Diamond" (aka "Sandy Beach") was able to record two telephone conversations with George Harrison durin...

Aftermath, 1976 A hodge-podge of Get Back , BBC Radio, and live tracks (Hollywood Bowl and Tokyo). "I Need You" is lifted from the...

Disc jockey Jim Stagg covered all three Beatles North American tours, first for Cleveland's KYW and then for Chicago's WCFL. Here ar...

By request, here is a truly wretched and rightfully obscure bootleg from 1975. It's the soundtrack to a multi-media presentation that tr...

A truncated but clearer and sparser mix of George's "Sour Milk Sea" demo for Jackie Lomax was broadcast this week on BBC radio...

Audio of a rare TV interview filmed November 13th, 1963 in Plymouth for Westward Television. The interviewer is Stuart Hutchinson. Move Over...

CBM, 1972 One of CBM's earliest releases, with off-air TV recordings from the Munich concert, Shindig and The Smothers Brothers Comedy ...

The sound quality of these interviews is fair at best, but I've had two requests to post them, so here are some rare recordings of disc ...

CBM, 1973 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's title track, a sampling of the Let It Be soundtrack, some TV performances, and the first LP app...

A rare intervi ew to pr omote A Hard Day's Night , first issued to radio stations in July, 1964 under the unwieldy title " Special ...

no label, 1973 A bootleg of a bootleg (CBM's The Never Released Mary Jane ). The only unusual item is the interview on side 1, from a br...

Since this is beatlechat.blogspot.com, I might as well post some rare interview material here from time to time. First up is Camie McKay of ...

CBM, 1974 Mostly BBC Radio cuts, augmented with a few mimed TV performances, and a bit of the soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night . Side 1:...

Wizardo, 1976 Posted by request. A mix of UK stereo Revolver cuts, pirated B-sides, and outfakes. "Peace Of Mind" is a bit cleare...

CBM, 1973 The Cavern film, a few BBC cuts, two solo TV appearances, an outtake, an outfake, and Around The Beatles again (this time from th...

CBM, 1973 One side of Ed Sullivan Show performances and one side of Kenny Everett and The B eatles Story tracks. Side 1: - From Me To You ...

So let's say you have a few hundred old vinyl boots digitized for the purpose of writing some books . But once that's done, what do ...