Contra Band Music

Bird Brain Records, 1987 An aptly-named concoction, full of unrelated tracks from other bootlegs. Bird Brain was better known as Starlight R...

The Beatles spent the first week of their June 1964 Australasian tour a man short. Jimmy Nicol filled in admirably on drums while Ringo recu...

no label, 1986 A nice Abbey Road -themed compilation, pairing the No. 3 Abbey Road NW8 tape with various "Get Back" session rehea...

Here is the second in the series of Beatle Pop Profile s done by Brian Matthew for BBC Radio. The Beatle under scrutiny this time is John, i...

On September 14th, 1964, The Beatles flew to Pittsburgh for a concert at the Civic Arena, where fans had been lining up since the previous ...

Instant Analysis, 1974 Pretty straightforward - a copy of the complete soundtrack to the first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night , obvio...

Each of the Beatles gave individual interviews to promote Abbey Road in the autumn of 1969. John's turn came in September when he spoke...

no label, 1970 A mono copy of an earlier stereo bootleg, Homogenized Beatles . Side 1: - The Walk - Teddy Boy - Two Of Us - I've Got A F...

Just a quickie recording of some TV interviews from the Munich press conference on June 23rd, 1966.

no label, 1970 A very frustrating release, with the first appearance of Ed Sullivan Show material, but in scrambled order and with nearly e...

Apple Records was launched in America with a blaze of publicity from Lennon and McCartney. In May 1968, they flew to New York City to give i...

Beatlive Records, 1984 The first appearance of Tony Barrow's cassette of the final Beatles concert - unfortunately missing the final son...

On March 13th, 1965, location shooting for Help! moved to Austria. The Beatles and co-star Eleanor Bron flew from London Airport to Salzbur...

Bag Records, 1984 The second in NEMS Records' occasional Bag series of Lennon/Ono LPs (culminating in the Lost Lennon Tapes series). A ...

"In the fall of 1964 Finley was in the doghouse in Kansas City because of his seemingly constanct efforts to move the team someplace el...

Manto Records, 1982 An obscure Beatleg, with some true rarities on side 2; most of the solo material made its debut on this album. Side 1 in...

Paul and Linda took a delayed honeymoon to Corfu on May 16th, 1969. The day before they departed, Paul was visiting relatives in Liverpool a...

no label, 1971 One of the earliest issues of the Hollywood Bowl acetate (not Shea). Side 1: - Twist And Shout - You Can't Do That - All ...

By request, here are more Kenny Everett-Beatle interviews for BBC Radio's Where It's At . First, some Sgt. Pepper promotion from th...

no label, 1971 Very early Beatleg taken from the soundtrack of the film Let It Be . Side 1: - Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Besame Mucho - T...

On February 19th, 1964, The Beatles were in the middle of a relaxing week of fun in the sun on Miami Beach. After performing live on The Ed ...

Lemon Records, 1970 One of the earliest Beatlegs, sort of a hybrid of Kum Back (albeit in mono) and the Silver Album . Does not contain ...

On September 13th, 1965, Ringo and Maureen Starkey welcomed their first child into the world. Zak Starkey was destined to become a drummer l...

CBM, 1973 The first bootleg containing the evening Paris concert of June 20th, 1965. Now found in far superior quality on both videotape and...

April 23rd, 1964 was a busy day for John Lennon and his bandmates. After partying the previous night at the Ad-Lib Club with DJ Murray ...

CBM, 1973 The original and still the only source of the January 1964 Palladium performance. The Big Night Out show on side 2 does circulat...

From March 25th - 31st, 1969, John and Yoko entertained newspaper, magazine, radio, TV and newsreel reporters from their bed in Room 902 of ...

CBM, 1973 The first (but not best-quality) appearance of the mysterious title track, as well as the two atrocious-sounding BBC cuts. Also tw...

By request, here are some more of Kenny Everett's interviews from the August 1966 North American tour (exact dates unknown): Kenny w/The...

no label, 1989 A cool little green vinyl EP sent to subscribers of Belmo's Beatleg News one Xmas, mostly consisting of unbooted (at the...

On November 29th, 1963, The Beatles' Autumn Tour stopped at the ABC Cinema in Huddersfield for two performances. Backstage between shows...

O.T.M.O.Q. Records, 1989 Despite the cover, this red vinyl LP has nothing to do with the 1966 Munich concert. Side 1 and the first couple of...

"In 1968 Robin Cruikshank’s small design company began working for Apple. At that time its management included Neil Aspinal, Peter Brow...

Stash Records, 1988 Compilation of solo rarities and pirated tracks, with a couple of OOPS'ed Beatles tracks and one curiosity: an appar...

In 1965/66, Brian Matthew recorded four individual interviews, one with each Beatle, for Pop Profile , a BBC Transcription Service program d...

Why Not Records, 1989 Pedestrian reissue of the Washington DC concert kinescope of February 11th, 1964, missing the truncated "Twist An...

In mid-November, 1967, The Beatles were busy editing and scoring their TV spectacular Magical Mystery Tour . The soundtrack double EP was is...

Beatles as Mounties? Why not, indeed? Why Not, 1989 Side 1: - Twist And Shout - You Can't Do That - All My Loving - She Loves You - Thin...

The Beatles' tour blew into the windy city on August 20th, 1965 for two concerts at Chicago's Comiskey Park. Associated Press camera...

Magic Dwarf, 1988 A Swingin' Pig EP containing the first Beatleg appearance of the October 1963 Drop In TV performance from Stockholm....