| Beatles try to block historic bootleg |
| By Giannis Tsagarakis |
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03/24/2008
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 The Beatles are trying to block the release of an album of "lost" songs recorded during Ringo Starr's first performances with the group.The eight unreleased songs date from 1962 when the Fab Four agreed to do a few final gigs at Hamburg's Star Club, where they had performed as a fledgling band.The songs include Paul McCartney and John Lennon singing an early B-side, Ask Me Why, McCartney singing Hank Williams' Lovesick Blues, and George Harrison doing Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs' Do You Believe.The gigs - performed after the band shot to worldwide fame with Love Me Do - are believed to have been their first live performances after Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best on drums.Apple Corps, the London-based company of the two surviving Beatles - Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney - has filed a 7.5 million pounds lawsuit against Fuego Entertainment, a Miami-based company. Together with its partner, Jeffrey Collins, a British promoter, Fuego plans to sell the eight songs on a 15-track album called Jammin' with The Beatles and Friends, Star Club, Hamburg, 1962.The seven other songs, which were later studio-recorded and released by the Beatles' record company EMI, include Twist and Shout, I Saw Her Standing There and Hippy Hippy Shake.The suit by Apple was lodged against Fuego, its president Hugo Cancio and Mr Collins in Miami's federal court on Friday. Apple is demanding damages for copyright, trademark and other recording infringements.Mr Cancio said his firm had legally obtained the Star Club recordings and had the right to release them.But Apple's lawyer, Paul LiCalsi, said: "It's a bootleg tape and there was no permission from the Beatles to record it, and Fuego doesn't have permission from the Beatles to exploit it." This report is provided by telegraph.co.uk
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