Birth Of A Legend - The Beatles

Compilation

Previously only ever available as "bootlegs', these tracks comprise The Beatles' now-famous audition for Decca Records.  

Recorded on 9th January 1962 under producer Mike Smith, The Beatles, at Brian Epstein's insistence, performed "standards" obviously a major error considering the scores of Lennon-McCartney songs available even then.  

Inevitably the audition was unsuccessful. Dick Rowe, as head of A & R for Decca, considered The Beatles sounded "too much like The Shadows?, and opted instead for Brian Poole & The Tremeloes!  

Almost eight months later to the day, The Beatles (with Ringo Starr now permanently substituting Pete Best) undertook their first recording session for Parlophone Records - the start of a long and phenomenally successful association with producer George Martin.  

HOGHTON HUGHES, AUGUST 1983  

(on the back cover)