RARE Beatles recordings have been discovered in a battered suitcase at a flea market in Australia.
The four-and-a-half hour tape features John Lennon and Paul McCartney chatting as they record songs which were later abandoned.
The collection is under-stood to be part of the "Mal Evans" archive which has been the subject of a worldwide search for almost 30 years.
Evans was a Liverpool post office worker who met The Beatles at the Cavern Club in 1962. He was hired as a roadie and then worked as a sound recordist after they stopped touring in 1966.
He collected a massive archive of Beatles memorabilia before he was shot dead in a bungled police operation in 1976.
New owner, Fraser Claughton, 41, from Kent, paid 50 Australian Dollars for the suitcase (£20) which contained bootleg recordings and materialpreviously unheard by the public.
Mr Claughton plans to sell the archive at auction.
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