The Beatles in the September 2008 MOJO magazine (with CD)

I always had noticed right from the beginning that your fearless blogger, BeatleBoyMatt, always used the tag line: Here’s What We’ve Read. So, I have tried to incorporate that into the postings this week since the very first one. Well, this one will be in the future, but thanks to Andrey for noticing this release.

Here’s what we will read:

MOJO 178 – SEPTEMBER 2008

In this issue

FREE CD!: THE WHITE ALBUM RECOVERED – DISC #1. The Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece re-imagined by Joan As Policewoman, Vashti Bunyan & Max Richter, Johnny Flynn, Gabriella Cilmi, Field Music, Julie Fowlis and many, many more!THE BEATLES: 40 years on, The Beatles’ White Album still holds a plethora of secrets and continues to defy definition. Yoko Ono, Donovan, Oasis and many more join MOJO for the first part of our gigantic, 30-page foray into John, Paul, George and Ringo’s most intriguing record ever.

No release for Let It Be

This one of those kind of articles that is just sad to every Beatles collector. The movie Let It Be was admittedly not a great movie in my book. And I suppose that is for the very reasons the Beatles themselves cite within this article. That being said, it just seems a wrong-headed mistake to not put this movie back out on DVD. Whether proud of the achievement or not, this movie is part of Beatles history that is vital to understanding why it all ended. How could the greatest group the world has ever known break up? Well, watch the movie, and you see the seeds of disintegration: the boredom, the nit-picking, the women, the camera, the uninspiration. Yes, it is all of that, but still in the Beatles boredom, there is more greatness than most bands could ever even hope to achieve. Well, I could go on and chastise them for wanting to bury this chapter in their history, but I am sure plenty will. But for now (that is, the existing Beatles lifetime, it seems), we won’t be getting an official release of Let It Be. And that is why there are bootleggers, Apple.

Sadly, here’s what we’ve read:

Beatles: Can’t buy DVD

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have stopped the release of Beatles film ‘Let It Be’.

The 1970 documentary reveals tensions between the Fab Four – Paul, Ringo and the late John Lennon and George Harrison – shortly before their break-up, and insiders at the band’s record company, Apple, claim the two surviving members do not want it re-released.

More On New Beatles Tape

Some of the great Beatleg experts have been analyzing all of this information, and it appears that the recordings have to be from a Top Gear program on the BBC. The theory is that some of the songs on this tape were actually the group The Hollies performing, and songs the Beatles performed as well. The Beatleg experts have said that the following songs were likely performed by The Hollies instead of the originally thought Beatles: Nitty Gritty, Somethings Got A Hold On Me, and I Shall Not Be Moved. The Hollies did appear on a volume of The Beatles At The Beeb with two of those songs, so perhaps they are from those sessions? Details are a little lacking, but still emerging. It appears, though, that a never before heard song does exist on this tape, that is, Don’t Put Me Down Like This.

I will credit another blogger here for the theory he puts forth of what the track lineup actually is. Here is what Wogew’s research shows:

Side 1

1 Don’t Put Me Down Like This (unknown)

2 I Feel Fine (probably the recording session for “Top Gear”)

3 She’s A Woman (more “Top Gear”)

4 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby (more “Top Gear”)

5 Honey Don’t (more “Top Gear”)

6 I’ll Follow The Sun (incomplete) (more “Top Gear”)

Side 2

1 I’ll Follow The Sun (incomplete) (more “Top Gear”)

2 I’m A Loser (more “Top Gear”)

3 I’ll Follow The Sun (complete) (more “Top Gear”)

4 Too Much Monkey Business (probably The Hollies)

5 Nitty Gritty (probably The Hollies)

6 Somethings Gotta Hold Of Me (probably The Hollies)

7 I Shall Not Be Moved (unknown)

Source: http://wogew.blogspot.com/

So here’s what we’ve read.

Unknown Beatles tape could go for £12,000

Jul 30 2008 Liverpool Daily Post

A UNIQUE recording made by The Beatles in the 1960s has been unearthed in the attic of a house in Liverpool.

The recording of “Don’t Put Me Down Like This” was discovered by a man going through his father’s effects after his death.