An early Beatles audition tape has been discovered in a Vancouver record store

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Beatles audition tape recorded in 1962 has been discovered in a Vancouver record store – find out more below.Last week, Rob Frith, owner of Vancouver’s Neptoon Records threw on an old tape lying around the store labelled ‘Beatles 60s Demos’, thinking it was just a bootleg.

After listening to the tape, and posting a snippet of it onto social media, he discovered that the tape in his possession was a rare, direct copy of an early audition tape by the Beatles.He wrote on his initial post on social media: “I picked up this tape years ago that said Beatles Demos on it.

I just figured it was a tape off a bootleg record. After hearing it last night for the first time, it sounds like a master tape.

The quality is unreal. How is this even possible to have, what sounds like a Beatles 15 song Decca tapes master?”A snippet of the tape can be heard in the background of the video below.A post shared by Rob Frith (@frith.rob)Speaking to CBC about his discovery, Frith shared that he “thought it was just a reel-to-reel tape that somebody had put bootleg things on,” but quickly realised after talking to a couple of fans and doing research that the tape was the real deal. “It seemed like the Beatles were in the room,” he said of its quality.The audition tape was recorded on January 1, 1962 with Decca Studios in London, but Decca ultimate passed on signing The Beatles.