20 biggest screwups in recording history...

[Archae]

Some of these are hilarious, like the Decca CEO who turned down the Beatles, or the RIAA coming in TWICE on the list!

http://www.blender.com/20BiggestRecordCompanyScrewUps/articles/18696.aspx

[AlCzervik]

1. #14, pretty sad.

[CreekDog]

2. But how do we include the rest of Yoko Ono's work?

:shrug:

[Bennyboy]

3. Nice post N/T

[Mr Creosote]

4. To be fair to Decca

listening to that Silver Beatles auditions is easy to hear why they were rejected. And the Trems did have a pretty good career..

[applegrove]

5. I like the Clive Davis story.

[edbermac]

6. I've heard the Beatles Decca tape; I would have turned them down as well.

And I can understand why they got Ringo in place of Pete Best as well. The session was very 'vanilla'; bland. Even when they did their first audition for George Martin, some of the recording engineers have stated they weren't all that impressed by the Beatles either.

But the real reason was probably geographic. The Beatles were based in Liverpool, 200 miles away. The Tremoloes were about 10 miles away from London.