The Beatles: an unpublished recording of a 1963 recital appears

An audio recording of a one hour show made by The Beatles Exactly 60 years ago, it was made known through the BBC site by the person responsible for making the record in an amateur way.

It is a performance that the group, which was in full swing and had recorded just two weeks ago “Please Please Me”his first studio album, he offered at the Stowe boarding school for boys, in Buckinghamshire county.

The search carried out by a 15-year-old adolescent named John Bloomfieldwho wanted to test how his modern tape recorder worked, thus constitutes the oldest complete concert of the Liverpool quartet available.

Although there is a live album from December 1962 at the Star Club in Hamburg, it deals with records obtained over several nights.

The brand new testimony, released yesterday, reveals that the concert lasted an hour in which the group performed 22 songs, in a repertoire that mixed songs from their debut album and rock and rhythm and blues compositions that they used to perform on their long pilgrimage. by nightclubs.

As Bloomfield revealed to the BBC, The Beatles they performed for a £100 cachet and were hired by another student named David Mooreswho was in charge of selling the tickets to raise the money.

He also recalled that the Liverpool quartet had been delayed that day because they had just come from a recording session at the BBC studios in Paris.

“I would say that I grew up at that very moment. It sounds a bit over the top, but I realized this was something from a different planet.”Bloomfiled said, recalling the sensations experienced at that time.

In addition to being the group’s first full-length live concert, the tape is an invaluable testimonial for capturing the group at a time when what became known as “Beatlemania” was beginning to explode.