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The Beatles - The BZ Auction Tape (1970)

Track listing:
  1. Step Inside Love (EMI Session Tape) Paul McCartney & Cilla Black 24:28
  2. Jammin' With Kyoko John Lennon 23:03
  3. God (#1) John Lennon 3:46
  4. God (#2) John Lennon 2:54
  5. God (#3) John Lennon 2:29
  6. God (#4) John Lennon 2:25
  7. Poem Game Yoko Ono 5:08
  8. When A Boy Meets A Girl (#1) John Lennon 2:16
  9. When A Boy Meets A Girl (#2) John Lennon 2:17
  10. Well Well Well John Lennon 1:25
  11. Ain't She Sweet 2:15

Notes


What we have here is a session tape of Cilla Black & Paul McCartney running through "Step Inside Love" under the direction of George Martin. The tape is unedited and unaltered. The sound is a little muffled.

As a bonus there are three more interesting tracks. First is a tape with John Lennon playing guitar and singing with Yoko's daughter Kyoko. Second, a John Lennon demo tape featuring "God", "Yoko Ono Poem Game", When A Boy Meets A Girl" and "Well, Well, Well". Third, there is a great sounding mix of the Beatles "Ain't She Sweet" (recorded in 1962 during the Tony Sheridan sessions) which has a much fuller and more contemporary sound than any version out there. Is this a new remix from the master tapes? Details are vague.

"The Kyoko tape is pretty surely from January 1970. John & Yoko visited yoko's ex-husband and his wife and Kyoko in Alborg, Denmark for nearly a month. This visit and a press conference from Jan. 5th is reported in "Eight arms to hold you", but this fun recording is not.

Of course this one is not a winner music wise (for me Kyoko seems to imitate Yoko a bit... and John is just playing some guitar chords), but it is remarkable to hear how John tries to take the little girl serious and how he is giving her a good time....

All the tracks were published on Pegboy's "The Dream Is Over" without "Yoko's Poem", which can be found on The Lost Lennon Tapes (Program 91-30/4). The sound quality on this boots is better as on the complete tape we've now got, but, as was reported from howdoyousleep? earlier, the cassette tape is more complete.