on 13 July 2004, the world had spread the news at a flea market in Lara, near the Australian Melbourne, suddenly out of nowhere surfaced, as experts say, considered to be lost archive of the legendary Liverpool four the Beatles - a suitcase with a pile of photos, programs, concerts and a tape recorder with unknown records. The happy owner of the finds was a Briton Fraser Klochan who paid for her utter nonsense - some 50 Australian dollars. Sensation? Let's try to understand...

First, why suitcase, hardly it became known about its contents, was dubbed "considered lost archive"? See, about his existence, to whom it is necessary, it was known, and once you know - those "who have" had to look for him day and night, at least for mercenary reasons. After all, everything that has anything relevant to Liverpool Quartet, leaves the auction for a lot of money. It is enough to remember handwritten lennonesque draft of the song "Man from nowhere", sold for 455 thousand dollars, or to his home recordings, estimated as much as 532 thousand. That money nobody needs?

Experts believe that this suitcase belonged previously to the Mal Evans, who was also the Manager and sound engineer group, and on some accounts even played along with the Beatles on the piano. Himself Evans, alas, will not be able to recognize your suitcase - in 1976 he by accident hit a bullet with a Los Angeles police officer. (And with good reason:nothing to aim at the representative authorities even toy gun!)

So, what is this suitcases, whom he belonged, and how he had come to Australia remains to be seen, and therefore to call it content considered to be lost" is still early. Another thing, what is this content, whether it can be considered a cultural relic, and if so, how valuable.

For example, in the case really is the archive of the late Mel Evans. Then find really interesting, but hardly pulling sensation. It is known that Evans had intended to write a biography of the Beatles, but because gathered all he had to musicians at least some respect.

Let us lay everything on the shelves.

Pictures. Hardly Evans carried with him all that had accumulated during the years of fellowship with musicians, but because of the early shots Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr (those times when journalists and paparazzi have not ran after them crowds) there is most likely no. Later that photographs the Beatles preserved enough.

By the way, two years ago, once again surfaced in the light of God previously unpublished photographs of famous were on Liverpool's side. In the archives of the Scottish University of Dundee have been found, as many as five hundred photographs of the Beatles ' 1965! And what? And nothing is quietly they left the auction for a few thousand dollars.

Another thing - drafts musicians. But they are, by and large, are of value only for collectors and researchers of the Beatles. Simple to fans of Let it be and Abbey road they are unlikely to discover something new: the texts and notes of all bit-lovsky songs already printed and published hundreds of times, and to hope that in these drafts have something new, however. It is clear that the cost of these manuscripts have a lot of money, but their historical and cultural value is not as high as the market value. On the programs of concerts and say no.

And finally, the most interesting is that Frasier Clacton found in the suitcase is a tape recording. Given that estimated the true owner was a sound engineer, among kilometers these records may indeed be something interesting. The question is what. In order to answer it, one must know how the Beatles were in the Studio.

It is known that "at times" the Beatles was recorded only in the beginning of his career - to 1970, the number of their songs gradually turned into quality: the history has preserved numerous takes of songs from the last Beatles album, the most interesting of which are in the eight-volume "Anthology Beatles". For one only, "While my guitar gently weeps George Harrison wrote about a hundred (!) options solo guitar until he was left completely happy with it. But - once again-the best version was included in the album, a little less successful in "the Anthology". By and large, the Beatles worked on every song is so thoroughly that any layman between numerous duplicates and no difference will not hear.

And suddenly, in the case records are unknown songs of John, Paul, George, or Ringo? Well, may be such, then, is really the sensation, but the chance is small. It is known that John, Paul and George, before you bring a new song in the Studio for hours worked over her house, making dozens of variants on a home tape recorder. Almost all of these entries, fortunately, survived, and most of them have already been published. Ringo same for his life wrote not so many songs, and the same room, it is often several times recorded for different albums, so it would be naive to think that the family say something lost.

That in the case of Evans (we'll call him so) there is nothing extraordinary in the fact that two now live members of the Quartet - Paul and Ringo have not yet reacted to the discovery. As, however, and twenty-eight years ago, when the archive Evans disappeared. Why? Because, obviously, then this file was not represent any value!

Not a good example, but still: until August 1990 in Leningrad store "castle rock" for three ruble could easily buy a photo of Viktor Tsoy with his autograph, but after the death of musician these pictures instantly was among rarities, and their value has increased hundreds of times. Tsoi, of course, not Lennon, but the tendency, I think, is clear.

Few people know that at the time, the Beatles were not any millionaires. In 1969 John Lennon made this confession: "we don't Have half of the money that we describe. We lose money. If this goes on, six months later we're broke". This was partly due to predatory towards musicians contracts, partly because of their own negligence musicians in financial matters. But what concerned creativity, John, Paul, George and Ringo was always Holy.

But the fact remains: "suitcase Evans" exists and its new owner says that he is "amazed to find no less than if he finds the end of the rainbow". It is understandable - in any case, the case will bring him a fortune and status considerable. The entire collection will likely be sold at auction trading house "Christie", which experts have already recognized the authenticity of the documents...