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EPISODE · Jan 31, 2025 · 39 MIN

The Beatles in the Boardroom

from Fixing A Hole - The Beatles podcast you didn't know you needed · host Paul Humbley & Mark Wakely

Ever since Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the group on 10th April 1970. Fans desire to hear new, or unreleased Beatles music has never stopped.  In this episode we tell the story of how a series of articles published in the New Musical Express back in 1974, lead to EMI searching the tape vault for unreleased Beatles recordings. Compiling two reels of tape of unreleased music and the executive meeting which took please in the Spring of 1976 to listen and determine what if anything was suitable for future release. Amazingly, like all key events in the story of The Beatles. A sound recording of that EMI meeting, almost 5 decades ago was made and leaked into the hands of collectors in the early 80’s.  That meeting and the sound recording would become, the catalyst for the Anthology project co-produced by Apple and EMI two decades later. In this episode we discuss the ‘Boardroom Tape’ as it has become known by collectors. Together with the chain of events that happened between that meeting in 1976 and the release of the Anthology project in 1995.  If you’re a Beatles fan, or just love music we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch via: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulhumbleyFacebook: Fixing A HoleEmail: [email protected]

Ever since Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the group on 10th April 1970. Fans desire to hear new, or unreleased Beatles music has never stopped.  In this episode we tell the story of how a series of articles published in the New Musical Express back in 1974, lead to EMI searching the tape vault for unreleased Beatles recordings. Compiling two reels of tape of unreleased music and the executive meeting which took please in the Spring of 1976 to listen and determine what if anything was suitable for future release. Amazingly, like all key events in the story of The Beatles. A sound recording of that EMI meeting, almost 5 decades ago was made and leaked into the hands of collectors in the early 80’s.  That meeting and the sound recording would become, the catalyst for the Anthology project co-produced by Apple and EMI two decades later. In this episode we discuss the ‘Boardroom Tape’ as it has become known by collectors. Together with the chain of events that happened between that meeting in 1976 and the release of the Anthology project in 1995.  If you’re a Beatles fan, or just love music we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch via: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulhumbleyFacebook: Fixing A HoleEmail: [email protected]

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