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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: When you throw something away, is it stealing if somebody
- 0:05Speaker 2: else claims that that trash is their own? Normally it
- 0:09Speaker 2: seems like a fairly easy no. But when that garbage
- 0:12Speaker 2: ends up being a priceless piece of Beatles history, things
- 0:16Speaker 2: quickly get more complicated, don't.
- 0:17Speaker 3: They with that question, And that's at the heart of
- 0:20Speaker 3: a heated legal dispute between the family of Jeff Emerick,
- 0:24Speaker 3: the late legendary Beatles sound engineer and universal music group,
- 0:27Speaker 3: and the Trash just so happens to be the first
- 0:30Speaker 3: known recording of the Fab Four.
- 0:32Speaker 4: They recorded a four song demo in nineteen sixty two,
- 0:35Speaker 4: their first session ever at Abbey Road, where they made
- 0:37Speaker 4: almost all their music that never got released. In fact,
- 0:40Speaker 4: Ringo Starr wasn't even in the band yet.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Eventually the magnetic tapes got set over to an old
- 0:45Speaker 2: squash court being used by the label as a quasi
- 0:48Speaker 2: story is more like a dumpster but basically when any
- 0:50Speaker 2: tape went there, it wasn't getting used like never ever again.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Then Jeff learned about the infamous tape in nineteen sixty four,
- 0:57Speaker 3: after Beatlemania had begun, so he went over dug it
- 1:01Speaker 3: up and stashed it in a box until he passed
- 1:03Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, when his family found it and was like,
- 1:06Speaker 3: this might be worth something.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Yeah, as in six maybe seven figures. It's a collector's dream.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Legal proceedings start in the UK soon.
- 1:15Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.