Contra Band Music

On February 6th, 1968, Ringo stepped into the spotlight without his bandmates by making a solo appearance on British TV. Along with Spike Mi...

Napoleon, 1973 A bizarre early Beatleg, one of the first in a deluxe cover. Half is a mangled version of the Hollywood Bowl concert (with ...

Another request, and another Montreal Bed-In telephone interview. This time, John and Yoko (and Timothy Leary) spoke with New York disc jock...

TMOQ, 1971 One of the most famous early Beatlegs, Yellow Matter Custard contained 14 numbers from the summer 1963 BBC Radio series Pop Go T...

The Beatles' only visit to New Zealand took place in late June, 1964, towards the end of their Australasian tour. After performing in We...

Bulldog, 1987 A pedestrian reissue of the common June 30, 1966 Budokan performance. What made this unique is that (for a time) it was able t...

Paul was the last Beatle to be interviewed by Brian Matthew for BBC Radio's Pop Profile . Their conversation was taped May 2nd, 1966 and...

Highway High Fi, 1974 A TMOQ hodge-podge, with (in reverse order) half of the Hollywood Bowl concert, some common BBC cuts, the Smothers Bro...

By request, here are two telephone interviews with John Lennon from his 1969 Montreal Bed-in. Village Voice journalist Howard Smith had cov...

Beeb Transcription, 1988 Sort of a companion to the Beatles At The Beeb LP series (though not from Yellow Dog), this LP was the first to in...

Although they passed on "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "From Me To You", and "She Loves You", USA...

Instant Analysis, 1987 Actually Starlight Records using old CBM/Instant Analysis labels. No new Beatle tracks here, but plenty of solo mater...

Since their first visit to New York in February 1964, WABC disc jockey "Cousin" Bruce Morrow had been interviewing The Beatles. By...

CBM, 1973 The precursor to the famed Five Nights In A Judo Arena . Pressed from the same tape of the June 30, 1966 Budokan concert, but the ...

By request, here are Ringo's two final recorded interviews as a Beatle, promoting his Sentimental Journey album in March 1970. First is...

Wizardo, 1975 Not studio outtakes, as the insert claims, but BBC Radio recordings copied from earlier Beatlegs and sorted chronologically. S...

February 9th, 1964 was perhaps the most important day in The Beatles' career. But apart from their triumphant performance on The Ed Sull...

Beat Records, 1987 A clear vinyl LP of the August 19th, 1965 evening show in Houston. Common material at the time. Side 1: - Twist And Shout...

As we've seen, Brian Matthew interviewed George and John in November 1965 for BBC Radio's Pop Profile . Six months later, he sat d...

CBM, 1973 The first complete (but middling quality) issue of the great Stockholm radio performance from October 1963. Impressed bootleg coll...

After touring the UK, France, and US in a four-month period, followed by two months spent filming A Hard Day's Night , The Beatles took ...

no label, 1984 A Tobe Milo-associated release, containing an audience recording of the soundtrack to the 1983 multimedia presentation The Be...

By request, here is a recording of John and Yoko promoting their new Zapple LP, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions . On or about Ma...

Parlophone/EMI, 1985 Not an EMI release, of course, but copied from a tape of a cancelled EMI release, by the Yellow Dog folks. An exciting ...

With George in the USA, Ringo moving into a new home, and John by Yoko's side in hospital, it fell to Paul McCartney to promote The Beat...

Thames, 1986 Notable at the time for the title track, the "Oh! Darling" vocal tape, and an 8 minute version of "Dig It"....

Seattle, Washington was the third city on the summer 1964 North American Beatles tour. When they landed at Seattle-Tacoma airport on August ...

Geritol Records, 1982 A listenable compilation, half Beatles-era and half solo-era. Everything is copied from other boots, but the side 2 ma...

On January 18th, 1967, a few weeks into the Sgt. Pepper sessions, Freddie Prinze - er, I'm sorry, Paul McCartney sat down for a filmed ...

no label, 1970 A knock-off of the earliest Beatleg, with a couple of mono tracks ("One After 909" and "Dig It") inserted...

In listening to the fabulous new Unsurpassed Broadcasts set, I realized it contains a slightly longer version of the Dibbs Mather Doncaster...

Melvin, 1979 Another of Melvin's entertaining Beatlegs, albeit not as eclectic as usual. Most of the LP consists of the One-To-One conc...

On December 10th, 1963, The Beatles' Autumn Tour stopped by Doncaster for a pair of shows. Backstage at the Gaumont, they were visited b...

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...