Thirty-two minute "She Said She Said" tape to be auctioned

A reported 32-minute tape of the song "She Said She Said," described as a "lost Beatles tape," is to be auctioned by Christie's, reports the Liverpool Echo and Ananova. The tape, owned by an American collector, has 32 takes of the song and includes John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussing it. The collector had reportedly been negotiating with Yoko Ono and Julian Lennon to sell the tape, but the talks broke down. The tape is to be auctioned sale April 30 with a reserve price of £152,000.

For the first time, an original Lennon and McCartney composing tape is going on the auction block. At Christie's South Kensington sale on April 30, one will have the opportunity to bid on the original She Said, She Said demo tape where at one point on the cassette, John Lennon says, "God, I just don't know what I'm doing, I'll have to give up, I'm just going crazy with it!" Sir Paul can be heard chatting in the background.


According to the lot description, this item is:

"A previously unheard and undocumented cassette tape recording of John Lennon developing the lyrics and melody to She Said, She Said, released on the L.P. Revolver, August, 1966, recorded by Lennon at home in early Spring 1966, the Philips cassette tape with black label with white adhesive label inscribed in black ink in Lennon's hand SiNGING! -- running time approx. 25 mins. -- given to Tony Cox by Lennon during the Lennon's visit to Cox at his home in Denmark in January, 1970; accompanied by a typescript document titled John Lennon Audio Cassette: "SINGING", from Tony Cox, signed, 1st December, 1995, concerning the provenance. The tape is offered for sale without copyright, broadcast rights, performers consents, and other reproduction rights. The Buyer must apply to the relevant parties to obtain such clearance and consents as may be necessary."
The lot notes read:
"Revolver is considered by many Beatles aficiandos to be their finest album, author John Robertson describes it as having.....its feet in The Beatles' past, but its head in the clouds of the future; and today it has a freshness, clarity and enthusiasm that little of The Beatles' other work can match....there was an electric thrill to Revolver, a richness of sound and production, that is still the peak against which all subsequent pop music has to be judged.... It went to no.1 in the both the U.K. and U.S. charts. In a recently published article in Record Collector, Peter Doggett explains the importance of the recording included in this lot: ..Very brief fragments were aired in the US more than a decade ago on 'The Lost Lennon Tapes' radio series. But the 25-minute sequence of recordings, assembled by Lennon himself for Yoko Ono's previous husband, Tony Cox, has never surfaced before. -- She Said, She Said was famously inspired by a remark made to Lennon by actor Peter Fonda during a shared LSD trip in 1965. But the composer quickly moved beyond Fonda's claim, I know what it's like to be dead, to examine his own bittersweet childhood in song for the first time. The Cox tape shows him experimenting with additional sections of the song which weren't included in the finished version, and weighing up unused lyrical ideas: When I was a little boy, I never had no toy....and I might be green, I might be green. Particularly fascinating is the way in which Lennon gradually strips away the weakest elements of the lyric and melody, briefly taking the process so far that he loses the entire "when I was a boy" section. A song which sounds like a maudlin dirge on its early run-throughs is transformed by a change to a higher key, after which She Said, She Said takes on a much more recognizable form."
Two other Lennon tapes will be sold at this auction. They are recordings of John Lennon improvising songs, stories, and nursery rhymes for his stepdaughter, Kyoko Cox who was six years old at the time.

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Очень интересно... А появлялась эта запись когда-либо на бутлегах. Я что-то не помню.

REVOLVING
The evolution of "Revolver"
SECRET TRAX ST 99009-1/2 (2CD set)
http://faab.pro.tok2.com/sss/secret_trax/st99009.html

1. He Said, He Said home tape 0'21''
2. He Said, He Said home tape 0'35''
3. He Said, He Said home tape 0'10''
4. He Said, He Said home tape 0'47''
5. She Said, She Said home tape 0'16''
6. She Said, She Said home tape 0'20''
7. She Said, She Said home tape 1'04'

Блин, господа, я никак не пойму, что такое бутлег.

Бутлег - запись, изначально не предназначавшаяся для продажи и распространения (во многих случаях и сейчас не предназначающаяся) - в большинстве (если не во всех) случаях бутлег производится добрыми пиратами, за что им огромное спасибо. Бутлеги - это обычно домашние записи музыкантов, концертные записи с пульта или с диктофона, пробные студийные дубли. Антологию правильно было бы назвать официальным бутлегом, поскольку она выпущена с ведома и при участии всех обладателей прав на битловские записи; если этот мужик, о котором идет речь, попытается размножить пленку и продать, то это будет неофициальный (пиратский) бутлег.

Грубо: если Вы слушаете битловскую запись и вдруг Леннон начинает кашлять - это точно бутлег.

Боюсь ошибиться, но, кажется, последнее сравнение не совсем верно: а разве Револьвер (то бишь Тэксмэн) начинется не с кашля?! В остальном вроде бы всё о кей.

Это репетиционный материал, неизвестные версии официально выпущенных песен, а также концертные записи.