The Beatles’ ‘First Known’ Recording Sparks Legal Battle With UMG: ‘A Highly Valuable Artifact’
Geoff Emerick was just a teenager in June 1962, employed as an apprentice sound engineer at EMI Studios (later renamed Abbey Road), when a then-little-known English rock band recorded a demo in the studio. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and drummer Pete Best laid down four tracks that day — “Bésame Mucho,” “Love Me […]
