Rare censored footage of the tight security put in place by Tokyo police when the Beatles came to Japan to perform in 1966 has finally reached the public domain. The nearly 36-minute black and ...

It's not a fast copy or a bootleg," Hennessey explained. Indeed, listening to it, "It seemed like the Beatles were in the ... of the 'master tape' sold to a Japanese collector for £35,000.

At Budokan was the fluke hit that made the Anglophile “hard rock Beatles” one of America’s biggest bands, and all because they were loved in Japan. Two words from Rick Nielsen said it all ...

Nor would a bootleg be free of hiss and ... In 2012, a safety master tape of the Beatles’ Decca audition was sold at auction to a Japanese collector for 35,000 pounds, or over $56,000 at the ...

A collection of The Beatles‘ rarities and bootlegs will be released exclusively through iTunes next week. The band, whose music only arrived on iTunes in 2010 following lengthy legal ...