Unnofficial Albums
These are two albums containing Beatles material not produced by EMI
that were commercially released (that is, not bootlegged) and eventually
came to Brazil.
The Early Beatles
This album collects the recordings The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums,
made with Tony Sheridan
in Hamburg in 1961 (under the name Beat Brothers).
In addition, the album contains several other songs that were recorded
by Tony Sheridan with another band.
These recordings, owned by Polydor, had already released them
in several forms through the years, until they were collected in this
CD in 1985. (The date of the Brazilian issue is unknown).
The songs The Beatles play are: Ain't She Sweet, Cry For A Shadow,
My Bonnie, The Saints, Why (Can't You Love Me Again,
Nobody's Child, Take Out Some Insurance On Me and Sweet
Georgia Brown. The first three were released by EMI on
Anthology 1 and the first two feature only The Beatles.
The album is currently on the Polygram catalog but it is relatively
hard to find.
The Beatles Rockin' At The Star-Club - 1962
This CD, released in Brazil as a budget-line import
in 1989, was brought by a department store (Lojas Americanas),
sold only for a short time and never seen again after that.
It contains performances recorded live at the Star-Club in Hamburg,
probably at the end of 1962, although the actual date is unknown
(some say it was in April 1962). These performances were released
in many forms through the years, all of them "essentially bootlegs"
according to Joe Brennan. This seems to be the case for this release,
since it was made by an obscure foreign recording company.
There is one more non-EMI release: the reissue of
A Collection of Beatles' Oldies by Som Livre, in 1984. However,
unlike these ones that album was originally produced by EMI.
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