The Beatles Live at Stowe Boarding School - 1963

[Canard]

The Beatles Live at Stowe Boarding School - 1963 - newly discovered/remembered tape found.

The Beatles: How a schoolboy made the band's earliest known UK concert recording

A 15-year-old made the band's first known UK concert recording in his school theatre in 1963.

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Podcast (link is also embedded twice in story above)

Front Row - The Beatles at Stowe School, Hugh Laurie on Agatha Christie - BBC Sounds

The Beatles at Stowe School, and Hugh Laurie on Agatha Christie.

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[Guildedagain]

What's Hugh doing on Agatha?

 

[GGJaguar]

Well that's cool!

 

[Canard]

What's Hugh doing on Agatha?

A highly ambiguous question.

 

[Guildedagain]

 

[gjmalcyon]

Man, I hope this gets released.

 

[walrus]

Very cool!

walrus

 

[Midnight Toker]

photos from the show...

THE SOURCE - The Savage Young Beatles - 4 April 1963 - Roxburgh Hall

beatlesource.com

 

[Midnight Toker]

Setlist has now been revealed.

Stowe concert set list: 4 April 1963
I Saw Her Standing There
Too Much Monkey Business
Love Me Do
Some Other Guy
Misery
I Just Don’t Understand
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
Boys!
Matchbox
From Me To You
Thank You Girl
Memphis Tennessee
A Taste of Honey
Twist and Shout
Anna
Please Please Me
Hippy Hippy Shake
I’m Talking About You
Ask Me Why
Till There Was You
Money
I Saw Her Standing There (reprise)

The tape runs out at this point, but speculation, based on a set list written from memory by one of the Stowe pupils, suggests two more tracks: Sweet Little Sixteen and Long Tall Sally

Pretty incredible!

 

[sailingshoes72]

photos from the show...

THE SOURCE - The Savage Young Beatles - 4 April 1963 - Roxburgh Hall

beatlesource.com

That's all the equipment you needed, right there, for a concert in 1963. A drum kit, two Vox AC-30 amps, a Vox bass cab and a PA system. Oh, yeah, and a harmonica for John Lennon. Very cool! It looks like there is also an acoustic guitar resting against the drum riser and another one leaning against the back of the AC-30 amp on the left.

 

[Nuuska]

Ringo is still using Premier kit

 

[johnreardon]

That's all the equipment you needed, right there, for a concert in 1963. A drum kit, two Vox AC-30 amps, a Vox bass cab and a PA system. Oh, yeah, and a harmonica for John Lennon. Very cool! It looks like there is also an acoustic guitar resting against the drum riser and another one leaning against the back of the AC-30 amp on the left.

Some of us didn't even need a PA.

Our singer went through my AC30 for a while in 63