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The English rock band The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, north London, on 1 January 1962.They were rejected by the label, who instead signed a contract with Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. [1]
Other high prices for obscure Beatles-related tapes include The Silver Beatles' Decca audition tape, which fetched £35,000 at auction, [14] and $30,000 at Bonhams in 2008 for a recording of John Lennon singing at a party in 1973. [15] The Beatles' "Till There Was You" 10-inch acetate sold in March 2016 for £77,500, according to Record ...
1914 advertisement for Decca Dulcephone. The origins of the Decca Record Company were not in making records but in making the gramophones on which to play them. Shortly before the First World War the first Decca product was offered to the public: the "Decca Dulcephone" a portable gramophone, retailing at two guineas (£2.10 in decimal currency, and equivalent to about £250 in 2023 terms).
Beatles for Sale (1964) Lennon initially wrote “No Reply” for Tommy Quickly, a singer managed by Brian Epstein. Quickly, who’d retire from the music industry in 1965, didn’t release the song.
The Beatles' international discography is more complicated due to different versions of their albums sometimes being released in other countries, particularly during their early years on Capitol Records in North America. Prior to 1967, it was common practice for British releases to be reconfigured for the American market.
The Beatles failed their Decca audition at the location on 1 January 1962, [5] and subsequently signed with Parlophone instead. With the sale of Decca to Polygram, the studios were closed in 1981 and the building was renamed Lilian Baylis House. In recent years, it has been used as rehearsal space by English National Opera.
MGM Records and Atco Records also secured rights to the Beatles' early Tony Sheridan-era recordings and had minor hits with "My Bonnie" and "Ain't She Sweet". These record releases led to a new dimension of chart success for the Beatles, and they held the top five positions on the Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart [ 12 ] and the Cashbox magazine ...
On New Year's Day, the Beatles recorded an audition for Decca Records in London at around 11am. They likely performed only one take of each song with no overdubbing . The Beatles did not pass the audition, but their manager, Brian Epstein , kept the reel-to-reel tapes to present to other record producers.