1973 BBC reports on the Star-Club tape

11 Responses

  1. Sean O’Leary says:

    I hope Peter Jackson’s team can salvage something from these recordings using the MAL technology. Might take a few years but will be worth the wait

  2. Tumble Starker says:

    Do we reckon Allan and Ted made a few bob from the recordings or is the record company again?

  3. PaulD says:

    Fascinating… Over the years since the fab4 split up, there have been so many high profile media reports covering newly discovered tapes, photos, footage, instruments (eg Macca’s bass), discs and other artefacts and I think perhaps this news article was the first of all of those stories? Can anybody think of an earlier one? Listening to them talk in this clip reminds you that at that time the Hamburg days were just 11 years previous. These days, when we discuss anything about the Beatles its all 50 / 60 years ago.

    I love the Star Club album and I was lucky enough to meet Allan Williams at a Beatles convention in (I think) Stoke-on-Trent in the late summer of 1979 – seemed like a lovely guy. He and Ted seem very optimistic to me in this clip about how much they could make out of the tape!

  4. Tumble Starker says:

    Didn’t Allan try and sell them to the Beatles in Jan ’69, hence his blink and you’ll miss it cameo in ‘Get back’, or am I getting mixed up?

  5. PaulD says:

    I don’t think he had the tapes in his possession in 1969, did he?? I’m very rusty on the whole Hamburg tapes story. I’m sure its very welll covered elsewhere in this blog! I didn’t realise AW was in Get Back so I must have blinked at the wrong time while I was watching that 🙁

  6. Tumble Starker says:

    It really is a blink and you’ll miss it moment!

  7. Nick_L says:

    It would be great to have the tapes updated with modern technology

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