| Ten years have passed since the release of Unicorn's 'Acetate
Collection' in 2001, although some were controversial, it did compile a
comprehensive selection of rare and unreleased Beatles acetates. Although
this set doesn't offer a full running order of acetates, it does provide
the listener with some rare and previously un-bootlegged recordings.
The disc starts with a recently sourced 10" 33rpm acetate of The
Beatles At The Sunday Palladium from the 13th of October 1963. Side one
(presented here) consists of edited highlights of The Beatles performance,
side two compiled performances from Cliff Richard and the Shadows: "Dance
On", "On a Monday, a Tuesday", "Bachelor Boy"
and "Dancing Shoes".
The second track presents The Beatles Christmas message outtake from
1964, this is a different recording to what was released on Yellow Dog's
'Complete Christmas Collection', and seems to be from a different tape
source to 'The Seven Years Of Christmas'.
Tracks 3-8 brings us a new audio tape source from video of the Beatles
at the Liverpool Empire Christmas show from the 22nd of December 1963.
A Cleaned version of the Magical Mystery Tour Acetate RM4 is up next, followed
by a remix stereo excerpt of 'A Day In The Life' interlude. Unicorn had
previously release a long edit of 'Can You Take Me Back' on their 2000 release
'Studio Collection', what's presented here is a cleaner edit from the same
tape sources.
What follows is an unused edit piece from the Sgt.Pepper sessions entitled
'Hum', George Martin gives a brief explanation to why this was never used
in the final edit of the song.
Track 13 gives us an isolated mix of the ending of 'I Am The Walrus',
originally recorded live from an off air radio feed of Shakespeares 'King
Lear', this is followed by an excerpt of a recent acetate find of The
Beatles & The Beach Boys telephone interview from the 11th of March
1964, the Capitol Records acetate with type-written label was purchased
for $5 at a L.A flea market in 2001 and later sold at auction for a staggering
$10,000!! The original 6 minute recording seems to be the only one in
existence, we have sourced a brief excerpt for you to hear.
This compilation ends with two 8" Apple aceates, firstly a previously
un-bootlegged acetate of John Lennon's 'God Save Us' from 1971, this is
a unique arrangement of the song and is presented on CD for the first
time. Secondly we have another 8" Apple acetate, this time from Ringo's
early solo career entitled 'It Don't Come Easy' recorded in 1970 and is
notably different from the released version and also makes it's debut
to CD here.
All tracks compiled on this CD are as they were sourced from the original
tapes, and have undergone no digital filtering, speed correction or mastering.
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2011
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