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1973: The SECRET BEATLES Tape | Nationwide | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
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9:28Now Playing"This was The Beatles' sound before they actually hit the big time - it's the greatest thing I've ever heard them do." - Allan Williams.
Bernard Falk - yes, he of the celebrated Merseybeat combo Cock and his Roaches, and laterly Tony Snow and the Blizzards fame - reports on an exciting musical discovery, believed to be the earliest known live recording of The Beatles.
The tape is in the mighty hands of one Ted "Kingsize" Taylor - the founder of Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes - and is a recording of a 1962 performance by the Fab Four when they shared the same bill as Ted, at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany.
Now, with a little help from nightclub owner Allan Williams - who holds the distinction of being the Beatles' first manager, and the indignity of being forever known as "the man who gave the Beatles away" - Ted hopes to officially release the tapes, which he reckons could be worth millions.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 17 September, 1973.
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