Beatles to release second volume of BBC recordings
Source: The Guardian
Sleuthing by Beatles fans appears to have uncovered a new release from the Fab Four. They discovered MCA Music in the Philippines – part of Universal Music, which now owns the Beatles' catalogue – was promising on its Facebook page a new anthology collecting previously unreleased recordings from their mid-60s appearances on BBC radio.
The amateur detectives came from Beatles fan-site WogBlog, who discovered both the month of release and the album art for the new full-length. Bloggers even traced the photographer whose colourised image is being used on the cover. Neither Universal's UK and US wings nor the Beatles' official website have confirmed the news.
The first volume of Live at the BBC consisted of 56 songs and 13 dialogue tracks from the Beatles' appearances on the BBC's Light Programme (now BBC Radio 2). The double CD, released in 1994, reached No 1 on the UK albums chart, No 3 in the US, and arguably set the stage for the Fab Four's three Beatles Anthology collections, released in 1995 and 1996.
Although it was broadcast across the country, the Beatles' BBC material is quite rare. The Beeb did not seriously begin archiving its programmes until the end of the 1970s. As WogBlog points out, the forthcoming Live compilation may be the result of the 2012 Listeners' Archive campaign, in which BBC officials asked the public to donate home-recorded radio and television shows.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/28/beatles-release-second-bbc-recordings
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Woohoo! 
I hope it's true. 
