 By that time, a 13-album bootleg series had appeared under the title "The Beatles at the Beeb", featuring many previously unavailable performances.This was surpassed in 1993 by "The Complete BBC Sessions", a nine-CD box set released by Great Dane in Italy, where copyright protection for the broadcasts had expired; the set contained performances from 44 of the Beatles' 52 BBC appearances, including many complete shows.An official Beatles BBC album was being planned as early as 1982, and it was reported that "EMI was preparing an album" of the BBC material by late 1991.