Video: 'Putting On The Style - The Beatles'

(Thursday, September 15, 1994) — The earliest known recording of Beatle John Lennon in performance was sold today at Sotheby’s in London for $122,770, the highest price paid at auction for any recording.

The recording, of Lennon’s first band, the Quarry Men Skiffle Group, on a three-inch reel of tape, was bought by David Hughes, a vice president of Thorn EMI of London.

It was at this gig on July 6, 1957, that Lennon first met Paul McCartney.