THE BEATLES - THIS IS.... THE SAVAGE YOUNG BEATLES (180g IMPORT LP + CD)

The Beatles This Is...The Savage Young Beatles on 180 Gram Import Vinyl LP Plus a CD of the Album

The Beatles Anthology series took us deep inside the work of the Fab Four, but it didn't peer all the way into the group's history. Enter This Is...The Savage Young Beatles, a must-have import LP for fans of the band. Here is proof of the Beatles' key formative music, made when the gents were serving as a backup band to other popular singers. In this case, they support Tony Sheridan. How did it all go down?

Riding the wave of the German beat craze of the early 60s, British singer Sheridan became a regular on the Hamburg club circuit, recruiting an ever-changing roster of back-up musicians that included, in 1961, a nascent Beatles featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best. Although still very much on the scene, bassist Stu Sutcliffe did not appear on these sessions. While most of the songs here are covers sung by Sheridan, Lennon and Harrison wrote the instrumental “Cry For A Shadow.”

Hamburg, of course, is also where the Beatles first picked up the mop-top. But more importantly, it's the music that matters, and this LP provides a window on the sonic revolution that the Beatles would soon lead. Historical, rare, exciting, and yes, essential.

The Beatles This Is...The Savage Young Beatles Track Listing:

1. Cry For A Shadow
2. Let's Dance
3. If You Love Me Baby
4. What'd I Say
5. Sweet Georgia Brown
6. Ruby Baby
7. Yaya
8. Why