An American internet auction house claimed yesterday to have proof the Beatles reunited in secret in the mid-'70s to record a final album.

The website is auctioning a recordings list and tape, said to have been made at a session in 1976 which ended in a dispute between the Fab Four.

Gary Zimet claimed that 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 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 Kovner which said the recording session was a "failed attempt to reunite" the Beatles.

But a spokesman for Paul McCartney said: "What reunion was that? I am not aware of any Beatles reunion in the '70s."

Last month the same website "momentsintime.com" put on sale an album cover signed by John Lennon for Mark Chapman, the man who later shot him dead.

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