Video: 'The Beatles in1963 at Stowe! I was there! The Real Story!!'

(Thursday, April 4, 1963, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. British Summer Time) — The Beatles performed a concert tonight at Stowe School, a prestigious all-boys public school in Buckinghamshire, England, a recording of which was revealed Apr. 3, 2023, by BBC Radio 4th’s Front Row.

The one-quarter-inch tape recording was made by 15-year-old John Bloomfield at Stowe boarding school in Buckinghamshire on April 4, 1963, when the band performed at the school theatre. The earliest known full recording of The Beatles playing a live concert in the UK.

Video: 'The Beatles Live At Stowe'

The event came about after one of the pupils, David Moores from Liverpool, contacted Brian Epstein to see if The Beatles would consider performing. Epstein was impressed enough with Moores’ approach that he agreed to the booking.

The performance in the school’s Roxburgh Hall was unusual for another reason: the boys sat in neat rows watching the performance, without a single scream to be heard.

David Magnus, an assistant to the photographer Dezo Hoffman, took a number of photos of the event.

A recording of The Beatles in conversation backstage after the performance was auctioned in Japan in 1997.