1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
shoddy and not trustworthy, 3 Feb 2005
By Ed Stokes "another paid shill" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beatles Not for Sale: The Beatles Musical Legacy as Archived on Unauthorized Recordings (Paperback)
A few well-informed Beatles fans say this book reprints other people's research, fails to correct mistitled tracks, and makes up a few song titles.
That last one may seem a rather damning accusation, but Belmo has prankish tendencies, and credible people say the author had no sources for the following titles, and probably made them up from whole cloth: "Maisy Jones", "Baby Jane", "Portrait Of My Love", "Girl With The Red Umbrella", "Three Ships In The Harbor". EMI confirms these titles do not exist.
If you need a bootleg shopping list, there are quite a few online -- search on the term "Beatleg". If you need reliable information about the Beatles unreleased tracks, Mark Lewisohn's "Beatles: The Recording Sessions" is considered authoritative at least for the studio work, and is available used.
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you only buy one Beatles bootleg book, make it this one!, 18 Jan 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beatles Not for Sale: The Beatles Musical Legacy as Archived on Unauthorized Recordings (Paperback)
This is the BIBLE of Beatles bootleg recordings. Written by Scott "Belmo" Belmer (author of Belmo's Beatleg Newsletter), it is the book that every die-hard Beatles fan should get. It has track listings, reviews, and liner notes of over 1,000 Beatles bootlegs. If you only buy one Beatles bootleg book, make it this one!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
...Like turning in someone else's homework..., 14 Mar 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beatles Not for Sale: The Beatles Musical Legacy as Archived on Unauthorized Recordings (Paperback)
Belmo's book is somewhat disappointing. While hyped as the ultimate bible to the underground recordings, it seems more to reprint exisiting research. It also does little more than catalog common bootlegs, rather than decribe in any detail the sound and material quality. For this book to have been sucessful, it needed more qualitative information. As such, it's a long list between covers.