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Rare Beatles, Phoenix Records PHX 1011. Release January 22, 1982. This album include 10 tracks recorded by Ted Taylor at the Star Club in Hamburg, in December 1962. For the cover design was used photo by Dezo Hoffmann. These tracks were not included in the albums of an “Early Years (1)” and “Early Years (2)”.

Matrix numbers: Side 1: PHXUK 1011A; Side 2: PHXUK 1011B.

The Complete Silver Beatles, Audiofidelity Enterpises Records, AEFLP 1047. Album was released on September 10, 1982. The album title “The Complete Silver Beatles” is misleading and incorrect; at the time of the Decca audition the group was known simply as The Beatles. This error appears to have been corrected for this 7″ release. This is the first official release of 12 of the 15 songs recorded by The Beatles at their Decca Audition of 1st January 1962. This session was held at the Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead studio’s of Decca records in London, less than two miles from Abbey Road! The release of the album in September 1982 and this 7″ single the following month, twenty years after The Beatles entered their first British recording studio, are the first time these historic tapes are officially made available to the public. Previously these recordings had only been available on a selection of bootleg albums. In 1995 five of those songs “Searchin'”, “Like Dreamers Do”, “Hello Little Girl”, “Three Cool Cats”, and “The Sheik of Araby” would appear on the double album Anthology 1.

Matrix numbers: Side 1: EFELP 1047-A1 / Side 2: EFELP 1047-B1.

Searchin / Money / Till There Was You, AFS 1. All tracks taken from the album “The Complete Silver Beatles”. Single was released to promote the album on October 8, 1982. It was released in a original picture sleeve.

Matrix numbers: Side 1: ASF1-A1 / ASF1-B1.

The Beatles Historic Sessions, Phoenix Records (3 Record Box Set) PHX-31. Release Fabruary, 1984. The Box Set contains the same 30 tracks recorded by Ted Taylor at the Star Club in Hamburg (Record Two & Three) and 12 tracks recorded at the Decca Records (Record One). All tracks were released earlier in the AFE Records (“Beatles Historic Sessions” AFELP-1018 and “The Complete Silver Beatles” AFELP-1047). The original album design Chico Alverez. Story on the back of Spencer Roberts.

Matrix numbers:

Record One. Side 1: PHX-31-A-22-11-83; Side 2: PHX-31-B-22-11-83;

Record Two. Side 3: PHX-31-3L-30-11-83; Side 4: PHX-31-4L-30-11-83;

Record Three. Side 5: PHX-31-5L-30-11-83; Side 6: PHX-31-6L-30-11-83.

UK label from the 1960s and 1970s owned by Polydor Records’ British branch specializing in budget reissues from its catalog plus childrens’, soundalike and easy listening recordings. “The Beatles Featuring Tony Sheridan – The Early Years”, Contour 2870-111, was released in 1971. Album “The Early Years” is a reissue of the British version of “The Beatles’ First” (Polydor 236 201) using a redesigned cover.

1. First pressing, early 1971. White and blue labels with red lines and red perimeter text. Matrix numbers: Side 1: 2870111 2870125 A//1 420; Side 2: 2870111 2870125 B//1 420.

2. Second pressing, 1971. White and blue labels, with the same matrix numbers.