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The Beatles record another live radio session for BBC show Side By Side at the BBC's Paris Studio, London, England, UK, Europe. In the late afternoon, The Beatles play in Roxburgh Hall, Stowe School, Stowe, England, in a public school gig booked by one of the pupils, David Moores, later to become chairman of Liverpool Football Club.
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Chris Walker (pupil in audience) : I remember David Moores (Grenville 64) arranged the concert and paid the Beatles £100 for the performance. He charged Stoics 10 shillings (50p) each and sold 240 tickets, making a profit of £20. He spent the whole lot on a meal for the Beatles and his chums in the Tuck Shop.
The Beatles turned up quite late for the concert, so played a little extra time for us to compensate. And what a concert! They played their songs from their first LP Please Please Me. Everyone was hit by the huge volume (rare in 1964) from their array of VOX speakers and their audience certainly did not sit quietly, as they enjoyed this new phenomenon.
(Source : https://www.corinthian.online/the-beatles-at-stowe/)
John Bloomfield (pupil in audience) : When the curtains went back, and they started to play, none of us had any idea at all about the speed, the volume, the enthusiasm,” he said. “And I don’t think they realized quite what it was that they’d allowed to come down here … It was like something from a different planet had arrived.
(Source : https://drfabs.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/the-beatles-live-at-the-stowe-school-the-letters-behind-one-of-the-oddest-shows-the-band-ever-played/)
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The Beatles turned up quite late for the concert, so played a little extra time for us to compensate. And what a concert! They played their songs from their first LP Please Please Me. Everyone was hit by the huge volume (rare in 1964) from their array of VOX speakers and their audience certainly did not sit quietly, as they enjoyed this new phenomenon.
(Source : https://www.corinthian.online/the-beatles-at-stowe/)
John Bloomfield (pupil in audience) : When the curtains went back, and they started to play, none of us had any idea at all about the speed, the volume, the enthusiasm,” he said. “And I don’t think they realized quite what it was that they’d allowed to come down here … It was like something from a different planet had arrived.
(Source : https://drfabs.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/the-beatles-live-at-the-stowe-school-the-letters-behind-one-of-the-oddest-shows-the-band-ever-played/)