Beatles Not for Sale: The Beatles Musical Legacy As Archived on Unauthorized Recordings (Paperback)

by Belmo (Author)

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Product Description
In this text, Beatles bootleg expert Belmo reviews nearly 1000 of these titles in an attempt to help both novice and experienced collectors to better understand and appreciate the most significant "Beatlegs". Also included are photographs of rare album artwork, information for the collector of underground recordings, and an extensive index.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Hot Wacks Press (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0969808097
• ISBN-13: 978-0969808091
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,035,864 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you only buy one Beatles bootleg book, make it this one!, January 18, 1998

By A Customer

This is the BIBLE of Beatles bootleg recordings. Written by Scott "Belmo" Belmer (author of Belmo's Beatleg Newsletter), it is the book that every die-hard Beatles fan should get. It has track listings, reviews, and liner notes of over 1,000 Beatles bootlegs. If you only buy one Beatles bootleg book, make it this one!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ...Like turning in someone else's homework..., March 13, 1998

By A Customer

Belmo's book is somewhat disappointing. While hyped as the ultimate bible to the underground recordings, it seems more to reprint exisiting research. It also does little more than catalog common bootlegs, rather than decribe in any detail the sound and material quality. For this book to have been sucessful, it needed more qualitative information. As such, it's a long list between covers.

1.0 out of 5 stars shoddy and not trustworthy, February 3, 2005

By	Ed Stokes "another paid shill" (Philadelphia, PA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A few well-informed Beatles fans say this book reprints other people's research, fails to correct mistitled tracks, and makes up a few song titles.

That last one may seem a rather damning accusation, but Belmo has prankish tendencies, and credible people say the author had no sources for the following titles, and probably made them up from whole cloth: "Maisy Jones", "Baby Jane", "Portrait Of My Love", "Girl With The Red Umbrella", "Three Ships In The Harbor". EMI confirms these titles do not exist.

If you need a bootleg shopping list, there are quite a few online -- search on the term "Beatleg". If you need reliable information about the Beatles unreleased tracks, Mark Lewisohn's "Beatles: The Recording Sessions" is considered authoritative at least for the studio work, and is available used.