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An internet auction house claims to have proof the Beatles reunited in secret in the mid-1970s in an attempt to record a final album.

The momentsintime.com website is auctioning a recordings list and tape, said to have been made at a session in 1976 which ended in a dispute.

New York-based Curator Gary Zimet claims John, Paul, George and Ringo recorded five songs at the Davlen Studios in Los Angeles, but never released them.

While the tape label, listing the songs Happy Feeling, Back Home, Rockin' Once Again, People Of The Third World and Little Girl, is intact, the tape itself was said to be "bulk erased" by the Beatles because the session ended in a row.

An unerased version is still being held in vaults at Abbey Road Studios in London, he said.

Mr Zimet said the former co-owner of the LA studio, Len Kovner, and sound engineers could "independently confirm" that the session took place.

He quoted a letter from Mr Kovner which said the recording session was a "failed attempt to reunite" the Beatles.

"This tape deserves its place in rock archives.

"The only copy is in a vault in Abbey Road," the letter said.

But a spokesman for Paul McCartney said: "What reunion was that?

"I am not aware of any Beatles reunion in the 70s."