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BEATLES:
Spicy Beatles Songs (The Max Hammer Collection): This is a mish-mosh of outtakes from different Beatle periods as well as some BBC recordings.
The Beatles vs. The Third Reich: The cover is a parody of the Beatles vs. Four Seasons album. Basically, the cover is just a lot of tasteless slurs against the Germans, but the record itself is a recording of a Hamburg show.
Beatles Not For Sale: Neat studio outtakes, a few of which I think ended up on the Anthology discs.
Beatles Classical Documents Vol. II: More outtakes and chatter, mostly from the Get Back / Let it Be sessions, mixed in with some other bizarre stuff (including John telling the "flaming pie" story and a version of "I Lost My Little Girl" before Paul fixed it up).
Sessions: This is a fairly popular one and I think it's all on the Anthology set.
Strawberry Fields Forever: Yet more outtakes.
Off White: White Album Outtakes, almost all by John.
Arrive Without Traveling: Outtakes mostly done between 1965 and 1968. This one is wonderful because George Martin (joined by Paul at one point) walks you through some of the Sgt. Pepper tracks like he does with A Day In the Life on Anthology.
Beatles For Auction: outtakes from 1964 and 1965. Includes the Beatles Christmas message from 1965
Four brief Murray the K interviews circa 1964 (one with each of them). Released in UK on Baktabak
Happy Birthday "Good Day Sunshine": A REALLY RARE recording made for the birthday of the fan magazine. Greetings from Paul and Linda, Wix, Robbie McIntosh, Hamish Stuart, Laurence Juber, Geoff Baker, Ringo, Pete Best, Tony Sheridan, Mark Lewinsohn, May Pang, etc. with some great songs too!
Rare Photos and Interview CD's Vols. I and III: In our area, these were given away free with the Anthology CD's. I have no idea what happened to Volume II...I never saw it.
Talk Downunder Vol. 1–Interview conducted in Australia.
The Beatles, Let It Be Outtakes, Jan. 1969
The Beatles, Revolution
“Around the Beatles” rehearsal
The Beatles, Quarrymen Rehearsals
File Under Beatles / Peter Sellers Tape
The Beatles Artifacts:
a) 1958-1963, b) 1964-1965, c) 1966-1967, d) 1968, e) 1969-1970
PAUL:
1987 interview: Excerpts taped off the radio by me. Includes Back on My Feet. I edited out songs I already had elsewhere so it's mostly talk with a few songs mixed in.
Tug of War Demos and More: 1980 demo.
1989 interview: Again, recorded off the radio. This is an interview he did on "Rockline" when Flowers In the Dirt was released.
Paul McCartney Piano Tapes: Be warned–only a HUGE Paul fan can tolerate this!
JOHN:
The Lost Lennon Tapes Vol. XII
Ticket to Ride, John Lennon Tribute, 12/6/87: Recorded off the radio. Ticket to Ride was a NYC weekly radio show in the 80's hosted by Scott Muni...a living legend of a NY DJ and a humongous Beatle fan. Anyway, this has different folks talking about John: Paul, Yoko, Cynthia, Bill Harry, Richard Lester, Harry Nillson, etc. Some songs too.
John Lennon In His Life: This is a CD with excerpts from the Montreal bed-in on June 1, 1969 and (more importantly, in my opinion) excerpts from a radio broadcast John co-DJ'd on 9/18/74 with Dennis Elsis (another living legend) on my beloved 102.7 WNEW-FM, New York (home of the aforementioned Scott Muni...as you've probably figured out, NYC is a REALLY cool place to be a Beatles fan!). Anyway, this is hilarious!
John Lennon, The Last Word: This is the famous interview he did on the morning of December 8, 1980...what I like to call the "As long as there's life, there's hope" interview. It's wonderful...and heartbreaking.
An off-the radio recording of the John Lennon tribute at the United Nations on the anniversary of John’s 50th birthday. Features Yoko’s speech and the world-wide simulcast of “Imagine.” Also includes a Lennon song montage assembled by the folks at the aforementioned WNEW-FM, New York.