This box set won't be for every Beatles fan, covering as it does the group's earliest sides, recorded during 1961-1962 in Hamburg, Germany, but it may please many more of them than one would expect. Some onlookers will be astonished that anyone could build a two-CD compilation out of the eight released songs that the group recorded for producer Bert Kaempfert in Hamburg, all but two featuring their fellow Liverpool musician Tony Sheridan on lead vocals (and, in some instances, lead guitar as well)    [ read more ]

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No matter what everyone once thought of these recordings -- I had a full LP's worth of them when I was a kid bought at a Spartan's or Arlan's Department store from the bargain bin and felt ripped off -- they hold more value and mystery now than they ever could have when they were originally issued. Part of it is the mythology of the Beatles, but the rest is in the raw, live, sexual energy that these recordings themselves project. It's also an indisputable fact that the Beatles never, ever rocked harde   [ read more ]

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