Lost Beatles Interview Found
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Clips of a Scottish TV interview with the Beatles have been recovered after being forgotten for 44 years in a rusty film can in a garage in South London. It was stacked among 64 other unmarked cans and presumed lost. In the interview, recorded back in April 30th, 1964, John Lennon and Paul McCartney talk about the first time they met and how they record songs.
"Normally we try to sit down and bash things out," McCartney explains in the interview.
The entire nine and half minute interview can be heard on the BBC Radio 4 Web site. For a small snippet click here.
The scary thing is this interview was almost thrown away, but somebody decided to take a look at it before chucking it into the dumpster. The thought of how much historical footage gets thrown away carelessly like this is just astonishing.
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Comments (8)
wow that's awesome....it really does have a lost feel...
...I second that emotion...
A lost Beatle interview....recently discovered.....and you call that news...:-)
Nicely done Charley!
Hey that's pretty cool.
It reminds me of The Stones' Rock n Roll Circus---how the film sat in cannisters for years and years in a barn, only to be (partially) recovered much later....thank goodness! :)
thanks for the heads up on this
No kidding!! Think about all of the art that gets thrown out by folks who just don't know any better. If Emily Dickinson had no Mabel Todd and Franz Kafka had no Max Brod, we would never have known the work or even the names of either of them. It's sickening to think how many other Dickinsons and Kafkas have literally been thrown away and forgotten, never to even enter our repertoires or anthologies.
Thanks for bringing light to a nice quicksave!
Great post Charley! Thanks!