The lost tapes of British band the Beatles from legendary Hamburg concerts are all set to go under the hammer and are expected to fetch 200K pounds.
The tapes that were lost in 1977 comes with youthful John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr performing at the Star Club in Hamburg in 1962, the Mirror reported.
The unedited recordings cover 300 minutes of the Beatles performing 33 songs which were mostly cover tracks.
The BASF reel-to-reel tape was originally the property of Ted Taylor of the Liverpudlian band Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes which performed with the Beatles in Hamburg in December 1962.
The singer asked John Lennon for permission to record the up-coming group and the murdered songwriter is said to have agreed as long as Taylor got the beers in.
Auctioneer Ted Owen has placed a pre-sale estimate of 150,000 pounds on the tapes but believes they could go for more.
Owen said that as far as Beatles' fans and collectors go, these tapes were pure gold.
