ORIGINAL BEATLES RECORDING FOUND IN VANCOUVER?

According to CBC News, the owner of a well-known Vancouver record shop may have found a rare original recording of an audition by The Beatles. It seems Rob Frith, owner of Neptoon Records, may have a high-quality copy of the The Beatles' tape from their audition at Decca records in 1962.

The "Beatles 60s demos" tape has apparently sat unplayed in Frith's collection until a couple of weeks ago when he randomly listened to it with his friend Larry Hennessey. Frith originally thought it was a bootleg, but Hennessey told CBC that he got a hint that the recording may be rare as soon as they took it out of the box and he saw white tape, known as leader tape, physically separating each song.

"The way that's wound on the tape, you can see that it separates the tracks … it's not a fast copy or a bootleg," Hennessey said.

According to CBC, Frith says he still hasn't listened to the full tape since he discovered it in his collection. "(Frith's)...not about to release the recordings to the public on his own, but if Decca wanted a clean version of it, he'd give the label a copy, he said. Or if McCartney were to come to Neptoon Records in person, Frith said he would give it to him."

(Rafferty Baker/CBC)