The Beatles’ late sound engineer Geoff Emerick’s recording of an old Abbey Road jam session worth $5m is ‘at the heart of legal battle between Universal and his family’

• A court battle is allegedly set to begin on Tuesday over an old demo recording by The Beatles after it was discovered in Emerick’s home following his death in 2018
• Said to be worth $5 million, the jam session reportedly sees The Beatles perform at Abbey Road for the first time and was recorded before Ringo Starr joined
• The recording was deemed to not be of good enough quality for the group and so Emerick was told by EMI he should destroy it, but he kept it instead
• Universal Music Group, who took over EMI in 2012, are now going to court with Emerick’s family over who the tape belongs to, with the latter citing Finders Law  
• Songs recorded on the demo include Love Me Do, which featured on the group’s debut album Please Please Me in 1963, and a source said it was ‘an amazing find’
• Emerick played an influential role on the group during the 1960s, and worked as recording engineer on albums like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

A court battle is allegedly set to begin on Tuesday over an old demo recording by The Beatles after it was discovered in late sound engineer Geoff Emerick’s home.

Said to be worth $5 million, the video of the jam session reportedly sees The Beatles perform at Abbey Road for the first time and was recorded before Ringo Starr joined the group as a drummer, it as reported on Saturday.

According to The Sun, the recording was deemed to not be of good enough quality for the group and so Emerick was told by EMI he should destroy it, but he is said to have instead kept it in a safe in his Los Angeles home, in its original box.

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