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28 de agosto de 2023

(007867)The Beatles - AT STOWE SCHOOL - 1963-04-04 - Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK [John Bloomfield-EVSD-Goody Speed/Pitch-AdjustEd.] COMPLETE CD1 & 2!!

The Beatles 1963-04-04 AT STOWE SCHOOL - Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK [John Bloomfield-EVSD-Goody] (FLAC)

he Beatles - 1963-04-04 - Roxburgh Hall, Stowe School, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England

from Japanese bootleg CD (Empress Valley Supreme)

Goody's Speed/Pitch-adjusted Edition

Edits via Audition.

01 introduction 0:33

02 I Saw Her Standing There 2:34

03 Too Much Monkey Business 2:32

04 Love Me Do 2:47

05 Some Other Guy 2:42

06 Misery 2:19

07 I Just Don't Understand 2:50

08 A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues 3:19

09 Boys 2:47

10 Matchbox 3:29

11 From Me To You 2:23

12 Thank You Girl 2:21

13 Memphis Tennessee 2:48

14 A Taste Of Honey 2:32

15 Twist And Shout 3:22

16 Anna (Go To Him) 3:34

17 Please Please Me 2:38

18 Hippy Hippy Shake 1:56

19 I'm Talking About You 2:41

20 Ask Me Why 2:49

21 Till There Was You 2:41

22 Money (That's What I Want) (cuts out) 0:59

23 I Saw Her Standing There 2:39

total running time - 59:25

Bonus track:

22 alt. Money (That's What I Want) (cuts out; levels adjusted) 0:59

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This is the earliest known full recording of The Beatles playing a live concert in the UK, at the point when they were becoming the biggest band in the nation.

The hour-long quarter-inch tape recording was made by 15-year-old John Bloomfield at Stowe boarding school in Buckinghamshire on 4 April 1963 when the band played a concert at the school’s theatre.

They had been booked by fellow pupil David Moores, who had written to manager Brian Epstein.

Epstein, perhaps recognizing the connection to an important Liverpool family – the Moores family owned the Littlewoods football pools and retail business – agreed to the booking for a fee of £100, and Moores raised the funds by selling tickets to schoolmates.

It was a unique Beatles gig, performed in front of an almost entirely male audience. And crucially, despite loud cheers and some screaming, the tape is not drowned out by the audience reaction.

It captures the appeal of The Beatles’ tightly-honed live act, with a mixture of their club repertoire of R&B covers and the start of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership, with tracks off their debut album Please Please Me, which had been released barely two weeks earlier, on 22 March.

Goody notes:

This was all kinds of wrong. Now it's practically perfect. Just don't hurt your ears. It's not for loud listening. Also included is an alternate Track 22. The sound cuts off in the regular one so the level has been raised up for the alternate to hear Paul's talk better. (Don't know what happened on the original tape to have caused it.)

With regard to the speed/pitch, it started out -43 cents or so flat and slowed down to around -93 by the time it got to Money. What you'll hear now is starkly different from the EVSD presentation... Sorry that it'll never be "easy listening"...

Thanks to grner1 for sending the files over for me to check initially and for his help with putting the text together after the tuning was all worked out!

It's not everyday that any of us gets 'new' Beatles music, especially without a ton of screaming fans in the background. Thanks and much love to all involved in making this previously rare and unheard recording available!!!

Please note that while a Disc 2 is noted in the BACK art scans as featuring an alternate mix, this is only Disc 1. We were not provided with a liberated Disc 2 and can't speak on its quality at all, of course.

This edition - August 26, 2023

cd2