Online Music Store Agrees Not to Sell Early Beatles Tape Pending Decision
An online music store has agreed to an injunction barring it from selling an early recording of a Beatles performance featuring then-new drummer Ringo Starr pending resolution of a lawsuit filed by Apple Corps Ltd., the Beatles record label.
Michael Joblove, the lawyer for online music company Fuego Entertainment Inc., said his client agreed to the injunction to give a federal judge in Florida time to consider the suit, the Associated Press reports. The recording was apparently made in 1962 at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, and features Ringo Starr’s first performance with the group.
Apple contends Fuego had no right to the recording because the Beatles had already entered into an exclusive contract with EMI at the time, Rolling Stone reports.
