A recording that surfaced last week of a performance by The Beatles is being restored and made available to a cultural institution in Britain. According to British media, this is to offer a wide audience the opportunity to listen to the recording.
The tape was made in early April 1963 by John Bloomfield. The Beatles then played at a school party and the then 15-year-old Bloomfield recorded the show. In a program on BBC Radio, the now 75-year-old Briton announced that he had found the tape.
The makers of the BBC program and Bloomfield want to restore the concert recording and donate it to a cultural institution in Great Britain. It is not clear which setting they have in mind, but it is the intention that everyone who wants to can listen to the performance.
The 4 April 1963 show at a Buckinghamshire school party lasts an hour. In between songs, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr talk to the audience. It would be the oldest recording of a concert by the ‘Fab Four’. The show starts with I Saw Her Standing There, the song that also opens Please Please Me, The Beatles’ first album
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