2 'New' Early Recordings by the Beatles Discovered

The recordings are said to be from 1963, not long after The Beatles’ Jan. 1, 1962, audition for Decca Records.

Hang on to your Beatle wigs! Two “new” early Beatles recordings have surfaced, a solo acoustic demo of Paul McCartney’s self-penned “Love of the Loved,” and the first recording of Lennon-McCartney’s “Misery.”

Both turned up on YouTube on Dec. 10, 2025, apparently having been taken from one of the latest in a seemingly endless series of Beatles bootleg albums. Scroll down to the bottom of this article to hear the two newly discovered tracks.

“Love of the Loved” previously existed only on the legendarily shaky Beatles audition for Decca Records, which they famously failed, from Jan. 1, 1962. The newly surfaced demo was auctioned in 1991 by Christie’s, but has never appeared until now.

The version of “Misery,” purportedly from a Jan. 30-31, 1963, rehearsal at an empty Cavern Club (the Beatles’ early concert stronghold), was long reported to exist. A snippet of it was played by Beatles author Mark Lewisohn during his lecture tours, but this is the first appearance of the full song.

It’s yet another dramatic and significant find in the group’s legacy, the most recent major discovery having probably been the group’s full concert at the Stowe School For Boys of April 4, 1963.

In the Decca audition, the group (with Pete Best on anemically recorded drums), assay “Love of the Loved” with McCartney doing a deep, quasi-Elvis voice. The newly discovered demo features a clear, “normal” McCartney vocal, backed with acoustic guitars presumably played by McCartney plus John Lennon or George Harrison (or all three). The demo is believed to have been done specifically for popular Liverpool chanteuse and Beatles’ friend Cilla Black, who released it in October 1963.

Listen to Cilla Black’s version

With arrangement help from McCartney, produced by George Martin, Black’s version of “Love of the Loved” peaked at #35 on the U.K. singles chart in October 1963. Yet the song actually dated to the first half of 1959, according to Lewisohn, written during a night-time walk home, in honor of McCartney’s then-girlfriend, Dot Rhone.

“It was one of those very early songs of mine I’d written up in Liverpool,” McCartney remembered decades later. “We performed it at our audition for Decca when they unwisely passed us up. We played the song live a few times too but didn’t ever properly record it, so the song was sitting around waiting for a home.”

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