The Beatles bootleg recordings at the club. Eventually Taylor sold the tapes, which formed the basis of the double album "Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962", released in 1977 by Lingasong Records. The liner notes for the initial release falsely implied that the recordings had been made in the spring of 1962, prior to the Beatles' EMI contract, on a night when Ringo Starr happened to be sitting in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, John Lennon wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been written with a court case in
A Salute to the Beatles: Once upon a Time of the Beatles performing "Some Other Guy" at the Cavern in Liverpool in August 1962 and the band's January 1965 appearance on the US show "Shindig!" The program also includes clips of the former members in the "present". Among these are a portion of John Lennon's 1973 interview on Malibu Beach with Elliot Mintz, footage of Paul McCartney and his band Wings rehearsing their song "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in London, and a scene showing Ringo Starr acting in the film "That'll Be the Day". Author Robert Rodriguez recognises "A Salute to the Beatles" as a possible "blueprint"