Yes, it was Yesterday once more in 1994

The rumours, it turns out, were true. In 1994, the remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, came together for an ...

The rumours, it turns out, were true. In 1994, the remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, came together for an informal recording session that never saw the light of day — until Tuesday.

Footage of the trio performing the songs — Baby What You Want Me to Do, Raunchy, Thinking of Linking, Blue Moon of Kentucky and Ain’t She Sweet — made its world premiere at the New York Library for the Performing Arts, at a news conference to announce plans for the release of The Beatles’ Anthology DVD set.

Footage will be included in the box set, which hits stores on April 1, but can be seen at the Performing Arts library starting March 28.

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However, Neil Aspinall, MD, Apple Corps Ltd., which handles The Beatles’ business affairs, denied that there were any plans to release the songs as a new album.

In a never-before-seen interview from 1994, included in the box set, Harrison said The Beatles were a quartet and that without John Lennon, the band no longer existed. ‘‘We weren’t going to get Roger Waters and go out as The Beatles,’’ Harrison said.

Aspinall confirmed, that about 50 to 60 hours of unreleased material had been discovered in The Netherlands and Australia and they were likely to be made public, perhaps on the Let It Be, scheduled for release late this year. (LATWP )

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