Rare Recordings

The Lost Beatles Tape: Geoff Emerick, the Demo That Shouldn’t Exist, and the $5 Million Mystery By William Zabaleta | Recording Revolution Picture the back rooms across from EMI’s famous studios in Hayes and Abbey Road—steel carts piled high with reels, masking-tape labels curling, handwriting from sessions that built the modern world. Then comes the order: destroy what isn’t needed. That’s where the story starts. A reel disappears the wrong way—tucked under an arm instead of