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These tapes were recorded sometime in December 1962 by Adrian Barber, a former member of Liverpool group The Big Three, who was employed as stage manager at the Star Club. Barber was an electronics enthusiast who had built amplifiers for his own group as well as other bands. It was he who built the famous `coffin' speaker cabinet used by Paul McCartney in the early days. He also built an extremely sophisticated PA system for the Star Club, with two columns on either side of the stage containing twenry-five 10 inch speakers each, all powered by a 200 watt Telefunken amplifier. The Star Club also boasted an in-house set of powerful Fender guitar amplifiers, which were used by The Beatles in addition to other acts. Barber recorded these tapes on a Grundig recorder running at a speed of 3.75 inches per second, or twice the speed of a compact cassette. The purpose of the recordings was to evaluate the PA system which Barber was constantly tweaking. Contrary to popular myth, they were not recorded in a careless or haphazard fashion.

01 - It's Now A Quarter To Twelve
02 - Hippy Hippy Shake
03 - Be-Bop-A-Lula
04 - Chat
05 - I Saw Her Standing There
06 - Chat
07 - Hallelujah I Love Her So
08 - Red Hot (Incomplete)
09 - Sheila
10 - Chat
11 - Kansas City,hey Hey Hey Hey
12 - Chat
13 - Shimmy Like Kate
14 - Chat
15 - Reminiscing
16 - Chat
17 - Red Sails In The Sunset
18 - Chat
19 - Sweet Little Sixteen
20 - Chat
21 - Roll Over Beethoven
22 - Chat
23 - A Taste Of Honey (Incomplete)
24 - Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)
25 - Chat
26 - I Saw Her Standing There
27 - Chat
28 - To Know Her Is To Love Her
29 - Chat
30 - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
31 - Chat
32 - Till There Was You
33 - Chat
34 - Where Have You Been All My Life
35 - Chat
36 - Lend Me Your Comb
37 - Chat
38 - Your Feet's Too Big
39 - I'm Talking About You
40 - Chat
41 - A Taste Of Honey
42 - Chat
43 - Matchbox
44 - Chat
45 - Little Queenie
46 - Chat
47 - Roll Over Beethoven
48 - Goodnight