THE BEATLES The Kinfaun-Session
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The
White Album (Kinfauns) demos (1968)
In
May 1968, The Beatles met at Kinfauns, the Esher home of George
Harrison, to review and record demos of songs under consideration for
their next album; twenty-seven songs, mostly acoustic, have become
public from this session.
Seven of the songs were released on Anthology
3,
including "Junk", a song McCartney would later record for
his first solo album. Of the twenty demo songs not officially
released, fifteen would be recorded and released on the White
Album,
while "Not Guilty" and "What's the New Mary Jane"
would be recorded for the album but not make the final line-up. The
recordings included on the Anthology series are of a significantly
higher fidelity (they came from George's original stereo reels of the
demo sessions, and processed at Abbey Road Studios) than the
bootlegged recordings (which probably came from John's mono copy of
the tapes), raising the possibility that there are higher-quality
versions of all twenty-seven songs. As a number of the songs included
on the Anthology series were included in edited form, it has been
suggested that the release of all the Esher demos as a legitimate
future Beatles release is likely.
The
other three songs would never be recorded in the studio by The
Beatles:
"(I'm
Just a) Child of Nature", later released by Lennon, with
different lyrics, as "Jealous Guy".
"Circles",
later released by Harrison on his "Gone Troppo" album.
"Sour
Milk Sea", a Harrison song later recorded by Jackie Lomax as one
of the earliest Apple Record singles.
(In
Wikipedia - The Beatles bootleg
recordings)
