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beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:46 am

I saw this over at voxtalks.....

This ranks right up there with that old reel to reel tape they "found" a while back....

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admin · Post by **admin** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:52 am

Thanks Chris. Text from the Daily Post

"Rumpus over 'lost' Beatles ballad

Jan 10 2005

Daily Post

A ROW is looming over a possible lost Beatles song.

A senior executive from EMI in London flew to America to listen to the track, called Mississippi River Born, after it was found in a batch of tapes recorded by John Lennon.

The blues ballad was one of a number of keepsakes sold by collector Christopher Lopez.

He is convinced that the song contains Paul McCartney singing at a time after the band broke up.

Mr Lopez bought the items from American film-maker Tony Cox, Yoko Ono's former husband.

He then put them up for auction and believes they were bought by Yoko or EMI through an intermediary for more than £200,000.

He said: "This was one of the items the record company executive flew out from London to hear and he authenticated everything but this song. They thought it was Eric Clapton or Stevie Winwood.

"I have spent hours and hours listening to it and I have come to the conclusion that the lead vocal is Paul McCartney.

"That would make it a never-before-heard Beatles song.

"It sounds like John and George Harrison are singing the chorus."

Mr Lopez is claiming legal rights to the song because he only sold a different part of the recording.

He thinks that Yoko Ono has the tape because her lawyer contacted him to buy it."

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:06 am

We really need to hear a copy of this to make our own determinations.....

I need a bootleg!!

roadrunners · Post by **roadrunners** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:50 am

yea definetley.........There have always been rumours behind post beatle break-up recording sessions...maybe our prayers will be answered

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:28 pm

Hope it is true...and what ever did happen to those tapes some guy discovered in an old suitcase he bought at a flea market or garage sale which supposedly contained Beatles tunes and other Beatles related material? Besides the ones of the Let It Be sessions confiscated a year or two back.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:48 pm

Stan- I heard in passing that that suitcase find turned out to be a hoax. Wish I had something more concrete but I suspect it to be true.

emswife · Post by **emswife** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:22 pm

'Twas a hoax... it was not the much touted "Mal Evans" suitcase that is still a legend. Turns out most of the stuff were photocopies... was hard for me to believe that a suitcase full of Beatles stuff would just turn up at yardsale in Oz and get bought without knwoing the contents.

Thing smelled from the start and turned out to be a fraud...

Keep looking... Mal's stuff is out there in a dustbin somewhere.

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:06 am

Sort of figured as much. There was so much made of the story when it first broke but then I saw or heard nothing more about it, which is kind of sad since I make my living doing news.