A previously unheard, hour-long recording of The Beatles playing live in 1963 has been unearthed. The recording, which is the earliest known audio of the band playing in The UK, was made on April 4, 1963, at a school in Buckinghamshire.
The recording was made by then 15-year-old schoolboy John Bloomfield at the private, all-boy Stowe boarding school, where The Beatles performed after another pupil, David Moores, wrote to manager Brian Epstein and requested that the band play at the school. Epstein asked for a £100 fee, and Moores raised the money by selling tickets to his schoolmates.
