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Subject: From the UK Telegraph Sat 7-26-08
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The Beatles: Giggling fit tape found in loft
A never before heard tape of John Lennon and Paul McCartney having a fit of 
the giggles during a recording session has been discovered tucked away in a 
loft.
The rare clip features the Beatles in happier times joking with each other 
during a recording of melancholic ballad I'll Follow The Sun in 1964.
The 30 minute reel-to-reel tape is being auctioned after being discovered in 
a loft, where it had sat unplayed for more than 40 years.

Auctioneer Jon King said: "The vendor lives up north and was clearing up his 
father's loft when he discovered it.

"His father is still alive and worked in the music industry.

"When you listen to the recording it makes your skin tingle because it's 
from a period of time when the Beatles were still friends, it's early 
Beatles.

"You can hear John, Paul and Ringo having a joke and a laugh together. They 
are laughing because they can't get a song right.

"It's a real collectors piece. We are expecting a lot of interest in it 
worldwide."

The tape, which includes other Beatles hits and cover versions of other 
artists' songs, goes under the hammer at Cameo Auctioneers in Midgham, 
Berkshire in August. It has an estimate of £8,000 to £12,000.

During the recording of the cult ballad which was released on the Beatles 
For Sale album in December 1964, John Lennon is heard saying: "I'm playing, 
baby. I know I can't stop laughing because I can see them two. I'm not 
looking at you."

Paul McCartney replies: "You were."

John Lennon says: "It's just going to get funnier and funnier as the evening 
goes on. It's 11o'clock you know."

Paul McCartney says: "Let's just try this once more and if it's the last one 
that's hard lines."

The pair are then heard trying to record the track a number of times before 
collapsing in a fit of laughter.

Eventually they get it right as on the second side of the tape there is a 
completed recording of Follow The Sun.

The newly discovered Beatles recording also includes hits, Don't Put Me Down 
Like This, I Feel Fine, She's A Woman, Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, 
Honey Don't, I'll Follow The Sun, I'm A Loser, Too Much Monkey Business, 
Nitty Gritty, Somethings Gotta Hold Of Me and I Shall Not Be Moved.

The iconic Sg Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band drum stick sold for a $1.1 
million at auction recently - four times the estimate.

A link to hear a small bit of it: 
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1529569286/bctid1689589558




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