Stolen Sound, Sacred Music: Beatles Bootlegs 🎸 🔊

Get the new Beatles Rewind eBook FREE at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZD1QM92 See this week's hot Beatles Memorabilia Auctions: https://wp.me/P2x2Mt-k56 The Anthology series in 1995 was a watershed moment—not just because it brought the surviving Beatles together for the astonishing “Free As A Bird” experiment, but because it officially released hours of material that had previously circulated only in bootleg form. Outtakes, alternate takes, early demos, live recordings: suddenly you could buy, in a shop, on an EMI pressing, music that collectors had been trading furtively for decades. The effect on the bootleg market was real but not what the labels might have hoped. What Anthology demonstrated was that there was an enormous legitimate market for exactly the kind of material bootleggers had been supplying. Fans who had never bought a bootleg wanted this music. The releases were massive commercial successes. And they also confirmed what collectors had long suspected: the vault was deep, the unreleased material was extraordinary, and the official releases were still only showing a glimpse of the picture.