Oldest Beatles recording discovered…

A true Beatles rarity has been revealed to the public. It is assumed First full record The Fab Four in England.

The event took place in April 4, 1963When the rising band performed in the school’s theatre.

The man responsible for the recording was a teenager named John Bloomfield, who tested his new reel-to-reel recorder at the show.

The result is expressed in the plan BBC Radio 4 front row Opens with a classic “I saw her standing there“, then continues”Too much monkey business“Inside Chuck Berry.

According to the plan, registration “Capturing the gravity of a Beatles live performance”, a mix of their club-savvy R&B covers and the beginnings of a Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership, with songs from their debut album. Please Please Me, which was released two weeks ago on March 22.

Beatles historian, Mark LewisonCommenting on the discovery: “The opportunity this tape presents is completely unexpected and wonderful, because we only hear them at the height of their discovery of absolute world fame. At that point, all audience records are covered in screams.“

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He adds: “So in England, there’s an opportunity to hear them in an environment where they can hear them, an environment where the tape actually captures them properly, at a time when they can also play with the public.”.

The microphone picks up on the screaming demands of the mostly male audience and, crucially, adds the BBC, the recording is not drowned out by the characteristic screams of “Beatlemania”.

John Bloomfield, who held this record for so long, is now 70 years old.

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