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Bootleg compilation from Unreleased Takes and Esher Demos
EAC | CD-image, APE, CUE, LOG | cover | 400Mb + 355Mb | 3% recovery |
The Only One © 1997, Germany | TOO–971/2 | 2 CD set

CD 1
1 Ticket to Ride (take 2, no fade out)
2 Help! (take 5, instrumental version)
3 Paperback Writer (take 2, with count in dialogue, no echo)
4 Rain (take 7)
5 Day Tripper (take 3, with count in, no fade out)
6 We Can Work It Out (take 2, no fade out)
7 Norwegian Wood (take 4, extra intros with several false starts)
8 I'm Looking Through You (take 1, slower version with hand claps)
9 Magical Mystery Tour (take 9 RM5, film version)
10 I'm the Walrus (take 16, long version without strings, bass, chorus and backing vocals)
11 Strawberry Fields Forever (take 4, slow version with false start)
12 Penny Lane (take 9 RM11, rare mono version, count in dialogue with fanfare)
13 A Day In the Life (full version, countdown intro)
14 All You Need is Love (take 1, basic track intro)
15 Hey Jude (take 9)
16 Lady Madonna (take 3, early version)
17 Revolution (take 14)
18 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – Christmas Time is Here Again (take 5, early version)
19 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Esher demo)
20 Birthday (vocal take, electric version)
21 A Case of the Blues (acoustic demo)

CD 2
1 Back In The U.S.S.R.
2 Dear Prudence
3 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
4 Honey Pie
5 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
6 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7 I'm So Tired
8 Blackbird
9 Piggies
10 Rocky Raccoon
11 Julia
12 Yer Blues
13 Mother Nature's Son
14 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
15 Sexy Sadie
16 Revolution
17 Cry Baby Cry
18 Child Of Nature
19 You Never Give Me Your Money (take 30)
20 Maxwell's Silver Hammer (take 21 RM12)
21 Oh, Darling (take 26)
22 Something (take 37)

Tracks 1–18 are outtakes from the legendary unreleased White Unplugged Album (a.k.a. Esher Demos)
The Esher Demos were recorded at 16 Claremont Drive, Esher, Surrey, UK, late May 1968

“May 1968. The Beatles came together to "Kinfauns", George Harrison’s home in Esher. One by one, first John, then George, then Paul, recorded 23 of their newest compositions by double tracking themselves onto George's reel-to-reel. These songs were written during the Beatles' two month stay on a meditation course in Rishikesh, India, and subsequently released on the White Album. Not all of them made it onto vinyl thus remained unreleased at least as Beatles versions. These 1968 sessions remained in the vault until a few years ago. Sounds like a sunny, smoky day. Here is a selection you may have heard before and maybe the first time this song was played amongst The Beatles as a group