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    Posted: July 15 2004 at 14:51
A British tourist claims he found a stash of Beatles memorabilia in a suitcase he bought at a second-hand market in Australia... If found to be authentic... will be worth millions.. Actually if this turns out to be authentic.. I really need to start attending more flea markets...!!

>He needed a case for his expanded winter wardrobe.

When he opened it he had no idea he had stumbled on the Holy Grail of Beatles memorabilia - the long-lost collection of Mal Evans, sound recordist and road manager for the Beatles. Evans was with the band from 1963 until they broke up.

"I didn't really know what it was until about a week ago," Mr Claughton said. "It's like finding gold at the end of the rainbow."

The case contains more than 400 pictures, including images of Linda McCartney just after giving birth to her daughter Stella, and the Fab Four smoking marijuana.

But it is four-and-a-half hours of new song versions and session recordings that will be the most valuable.

They include versions of We Can Work It Out and Cry Baby Cry that have never been released and a new song, I'm in Love, which the Beatles recorded but never released in any form.

"It's all totally different," Mr Claughton said of the recordings. "They are using different words and it's like session music where they are all stopping and starting, talking over it." <

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 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/13/1089484334650.h tml
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2004 at 11:30

If the case did once belong to Mal Evans, what was he doing carrying around all that stuff?

Hadn't anyone thought to look inside the case before putting it up for sale? Even at a flea market, you'd think anybody looking to make some money would have checked it out- anything could have been in there. I always check the pockets of my old pants before I donate them to the Salvation Army...
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2004 at 11:41
Exactly... I found the whole thing suspect also. On reading the rest of this article and the reports from Christies and such, it seems the items may be authentic. However, at the end of this article it mentions a robbery of original Beatle tapes and other articles from the Abbey Road studios about 35 years ago.  Who knows.. this guy could just be trying to come up with a cover story for having a lot of stolen property...
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2004 at 17:28
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

I always check the pockets of my old pants before I donate them to the Salvation Army...

I might as well stop checking them when I buy them then!LOL
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2004 at 16:35
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

I always check the pockets of my old pants before I donate them to the Salvation Army...

I might as well stop checking them when I buy them then!LOL

There's no point me doing that - I get all my new pants from the Salvation Army...
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Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Exactly... I found the whole thing suspect also. On reading the rest of this article and the reports from Christies and such, it seems the items may be authentic. However, at the end of this article it mentions a robbery of original Beatle tapes and other articles from the Abbey Road studios about 35 years ago.  Who knows.. this guy could just be trying to come up with a cover story for having a lot of stolen property...

It's the old old story. You do some international drug deal of French Connection proportions, see a nice villa you want and suddenly need to account for your new found wealth. So, you call up some dodgy underworld figure you know from way back and he arranges,via his fencing/forgery collegues for you to stumble on some priceless antique/stamp/painting whilst on holiday on the otherside of the world (might as well keep the tax bill as low as possible, your gangster mate will want a cut). Wink
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