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The Liverpool music paper Mersey Beat was the first to report on the Mike Smith visit, saying that the producer had made a tape of the performance (this amounted to the first "test"), and added "he is convinced that his label will be able to put the Beatles to good use." [8] About a month later, Decca rejected the Beatles.
Barrow then arranged to get the Beatles an audition with Decca, who rejected them. [9] That led to an informal arrangement whereby Barrow became the Beatles' part-time press-publicity consultant, which involved promoting the launch of the new EMI band from behind a desk at rival London record company Decca.
The thirty songs contained on the initial releases were re-licensed over the following two decades to multiple record labels, most notably Sony Music, which packaged the songs in CD form in 1991 (although the product was withdrawn the following year as legal action was pending from the Beatles). After another lawsuit by the Beatles, Lingasong ...
After the Decca audition recordings came to the attention of EMI managers through the efforts of the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein, a recording contract was executed between Epstein and EMI's Parlophone record label. EMI would record a minimum of six single "sides" and the agreement would start on 6 June 1962, expiring a year later, but renewable.
Decca has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, perhaps because they come from Liverpool and the others are Dagenham-based, nearer London. [1] January 5 – The first album on which The Beatles play, My Bonnie, as backing to Tony Sheridan (recorded the previous June in Hamburg and produced by Bert Kaempfert), is ...
The track, initially called "Hit Me Baby," was written by S wedish music producer and songwriter Max Martin for TLC, the three-woman American R&B group. Singer T-Boz, one-third of TLC, later ...
Smooth and polished, the Beatles opened their U.S. tour in San Francisco, on August 20, 1964. Three of the four from left are Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon.
Lewis kept Decca ahead of the British competition by launching the long-playing record in Europe in June 1950, following the example of American Columbia, and encouraging the development of stereophony as early as 1954. [3] In the early 1960s, Decca rejected The Beatles at an audition, but did sign The Rolling Stones and other successful groups ...