Complete Footage of The Beatles' First 'Top of the Pops' Performance from 1964 Discovered
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Daniel Kreps
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Complete footage of the Beatles' first-ever appearance on Top of the Pops, recorded on March 19, 1964, has been discovered. The performance featured the band pantomiming through "Can't Buy Me Love" and "You Can't Do That" the day before the single's release. The original BBC recording was erased due to the network's practice of wiping and reusing tapes, with only grainy clips surviving until now.
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Rolling StoneComplete Footage of The Beatles' First 'Top of the Pops' Performance from 1964 Discoveredrollingstone.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledComplete footage of the Beatles' long-lost first-ever appearance on Top of the Pops in 1964 has been found.
Recorded March 19, 1964 at the BBC's Television Theatre in London, the Beatles pantomimed through 'Can't Buy Me Love' and 'You Can't Do That' the day before those songs were released as a single.
After airing, the recording of the historic performance was placed in the BBC archives and subsequently erased, as the BBC commonly (and now notoriously) wiped and reused tapes at the time.
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