In 2012, a tape of the Decca audition sold at auction for £35,000 (more than $56,000), but it only contained ten songs. No full 15-song tape with such high fidelity has ever surfaced before.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — When the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) acquired a collection of materials from a New York artist, archivists likely had no idea they were also receiving an early ...

Prior to being signed to Parlophone Records, The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein had, of course, produced a demo tape with which to tout their wares – the tape was famously recorded at Decca ...

The label on the cardboard box said it was a Beatles demo tape, but, having heard enough bootleg recordings over the decades, Frith was skeptical until he enlisted a disc jockey friend ...

And I felt that ache so intensely I forgot, for a moment, what year it was. The tape I heard was an unlabelled reel-to-reel believed to contain the original – or at least a master-generation ...

Philadelphia-based hardcore punk band Commitment has released their debut recording. It is a demo and features six new tracks; “Betrayal”, “Hard Candy”, “Hellraiser”, “Pluto In Aquarius”, “Send the ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On New Year’s Day in 1962, a four-man band from Liverpool arrived at Decca Records in London to record a demo tape. The band’s 15-song audition was ...