Contra Band Music

August 22nd, 1964 saw the first Beatles concert in Canada, as they played one show at Vancouver's Empire Stadium that evening. Local sta...

City #2 on the tour was Las Vegas, where The Beatles had to fight their way through fans as they checked in to the Sahara Hotel at 2:30 in t...

The tour kicked off August 19th with a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. KCRA-TV filmed some of the show ...

From Winnipeg, The Beatles and company flew south to Los Angeles, landing around 4pm on August 18th. They would play the Hollywood Bowl a we...

The Beatles wrapped up July, 1964 with a visit to Stockholm , Sweden, and began August with a couple of concerts in Bournemouth and Scarboro...

July, 1964 saw The Beatles carrying out sporadic media appearances: they taped sessions for BBC Radio's Top Gear on the 14th and From U...

With the London and Liverpool premieres successfully completed, A Hard Day's Night opened in British cinemas throughout the last half o...

One day in early July, 1964 (most likely the 11th), John Lennon left his bandmates in the lurch, requiring Paul, George, and Ringo to fulfil...

The Beatles had less than a week to rest up from their month-long World Tour before heading back to work, beginning July 6th, 1964 with the ...

Four weary Beatles gathered at Sydney's Mascot Airport on July 1st, 1964, exhausted from a month of touring the Far East and Australasia...

The Beatles' New Zealand tour continued with stops in Auckland and Dunedin , wrapping up in Christchurch on June 27th, 1964. The followi...

The Beatles made their first and only group visit to New Zealand on June 21st, 1964. That morning, they caught a flight from Sydney, Austral...

Well, I've exhausted the supply of vinyl covered in the first two volumes of Beatlegmania . I have hundreds of discs left to post, inclu...

The Beatles' Melbourne visit wrapped up with two concerts on June 17th, 1964, the last of which was videotaped for broadcast on local C...

Trade Mark Of Quality, 1985 Exciting cover, huh? This was originally a single-disc follow-up to File Under: Beatles ; then both discs were p...

From June 15th - 17th, 1964, The Beatles (with Ringo reinstated on drums) performed two shows each night at Melbourne's Festival Hall. E...

Rock Solid Records, 1987 An odd hybrid from TMOQ. Side 1 is a copy of Hahst Az Sön 's first side. Side 2 has a lengthy session for ...

By June 13th, 1964, Ringo finally got the all-clear to leave the hospital and travel to Australia to rejoin his bandmates. BBC News reporter...

Control Records, 1986 Both 1965 Houston concerts, packaged in a simulated Capitol (or "Control") Records deluxe cover. Side 1: - T...

Following the less-than-fulfilling Hong Kong concerts, The Beatles gathered at Kaitak Airport on the afternoon of June 10th, 1964. Bob Roger...

Wizardo, 1975 A pair of incomplete concert recordings, borrowed from earlier CBM albums. Side 1: - I Saw Her Standing There - You Can't ...

After two concerts in Blokker on June 6th, 1964, John, Paul, George, and Jimmy flew back to London Airport the next morning. Joining them on...

Odeon, 1986 EMI's unreleased Sessions album first appeared in Europe on a Yellow Dog bootleg late in 1985. Early the next year, NEMS (...

From Copenhagen, The Beatles flew to Amsterdam early in the afternoon of June 5th, 1964. Their arrival was covered by AVRO Radio's Joop ...

TMOQ, 1972 Not outtakes, but BBC Radio performances from Pop Go The Beatles . This and Outakes 1 were initially sold separately, then packa...

When Ringo succumbed to an attack of pharyngitis and tonsilitis during a June 3rd, 1964, photo shoot, it was panic stations time in the Beat...

Live Records, 1971 The Beatles' real last live show, at Candlestick Park in 1966, would not appear on a bootleg until 1984. This early B...

After seven months of nonstop activity, The Beatles were grateful to have most of May, 1964 free for vacations. Paul and Ringo took their gi...

Dreamlab, 1978 A.K.A. Liverpool Alive! , this is a copy of the LP December 1963 , featuring the soundtrack of BBC-TV's televised Liverpo...

As noted in an earlier blog post , The Beatles were in Scotland at the end of April, 1964, visiting Edinburgh on the 29th and Glasgow on the...

Box Top Records, 1986 TMOQ's repressing of an Audifon original from seven years prior. Side 1: - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight - He...

On April 28th, 1964, The Beatles spent all day at Wembley Studios rehearsing for and then videotaping a TV special, Around The Beatles . Bac...

Contra Band Music, 1972 The first bootleg to contain a (non-Nagra) studio outtake, although it's only 2 and a half minutes of the 6 and ...

April, 1964 finished up at a furious pace for The Beatles, as they finished filming A Hard Day's Night . The 23rd was spent filming at ...

Circuit Records, 1982 The complete soundtrack to Let It Be , taken from a then-recently-released home video release. Side 1: - Paul's Pi...

To promote A Hard Day's Night in America, an exclusive outtake from the film ("You Can't Do That", shot March 31st at the...

Slipped Disc Records, 1979 A TMOQ knockoff of a CBM title from six years earlier. Side 1: - Have You Heard The Word - You Really Got A Hold ...

The Beatles' busy April of 1964 continued with daily filming for A Hard Day's Night at Twickenham and various London locations (suc...

Tobe Milo, 1978 A 7" single from Tobe Milo meant as a taster of their upcoming LP of the same title, containing the complete evening Ho...

On April 3rd, 1964, The Beatles filmed a slightly surreal scene for exclusive use in the A Hard Day's Night movie trailer. Elsewhere o...