Paul McCartney in concert (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
A long-lost demo recorded by Paul McCartney in 1964 has been discovered in Liverpool and will go under the auctioneer’s hammer next month.
Cilla Black took ‘It’s For You‘ to number seven in the UK charts after it was sent by the Beatle but the original demo, produced by George Martin, vanished until it was unearthed by Stephen Bailey, of the Beatles Shop in Mathew Street, Liverpool, amongst a collection of 21 demos which were in Black’s possession before her death last year.
Bailey takes up the story with the Liverpool Echo: “We got to the last one and as soon as I heard it I thought, ‘Oh God, that’s not Cilla Black it’s Paul McCartney’.”
“I was shaking with excitement and speechless. I realised that this was the long lost Beatles demo disc from 1964 and I was probably one of the few people to have seen and heard it in over 50 years.”
“Apart from a few crackles, which you get with acetates, the quality is fine. It’s a wonderful recording. I can’t think of finding anything better unless I discover there is a sixth Beatle.”
The sale is to take place during the Beatles Memorabilia Auction, in the Paul McCartney Auditorium of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, on August 27th.
“I urge all Beatles fans to search their bottom drawers and attics where they could have put Beatles memorabilia years ago and forgotten all about them,” Bailey continues. “You just never know what you may find or what it is worth.”