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LONDON — Good news for Beatles fans: Capitol and Apple will release two discs of previously unreleased BBC sessions from March 1962 to June 1965.
The record companies will release 63 tracks, including 40 songs, 23 spoken segments of interviews, introductions and studio banter on Nov. 11, the New York Times reported. In addition to the unreleased tracks, the first volume of “On Air – The Beatles Live at the BBC” will be remastered and rereleased.
“You tend to forget that we were a working band,” Ringo Starr said in a statement. “There were usually no overdubs. We were in at the count-in and that was it. I get excited listening to them.”
The tracks will be released on vinyl in addition to CDs. The albums will include some of the Beatles’ biggest hits like “She Loves You,” “Please Please Me” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” as well as other tracks that were left off the first volume like early compositions by Lennon and McCartney and some covers.
“There’s a lot of energy and spirit,” Paul McCartney said. “We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes.”
