Latest Beatles release just scrapes surface
[NEW YORK] In the summer of 1971, one of the first Beatles bootlegs turned up, packaged in a white sleeve with "The Beatles - Yellow Matter Custard - Previously Unreleased Studio Material" rubber-stamped across it.
It offered an odd line-up of tracks (performances of Ray Charles' I Got a Woman; Buddy Holly's Crying, Waiting, Hoping; Carl Perkins' Sure to Fall (in Love With You); Arthur Alexander's Shot of Rhythm and Blues - 14 in all, in decent, if slightly tinny, quality.
Beatles scholarship was in its infancy then, and collectors had no idea what these tracks were. When a fan played the disc for John Lennon in 1972, he said it was the…
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