The Beatles ’s last live concerts — at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966 and then on aLondon rooftopthree years by and by — have go down as some of the most important events in pop music history . But until lately , evidence of oneTop of the Popsperformance all four Beatles gave in their final weeks together had been lose to time . Now , theBBCreports that footage of that appearance has been recovered and remastered 53 years after it was filmed .
Top of the Popsis a long - running BBC television series . episode showcase musical public presentation from popular artists with hit song on the current charts . Thefirst - ever episode , which was transmit on January 1 , 1964 , featured The Beatles perform their early single ( and first American No . 1 ) " I desire to harbour Your Hand . "
In 1966 , the band returned to the program to take on their song " Paperback Writer . " Just a few week later , they held the concert at San Francisco ’s Candlestick Park that marked their last scheduled gig as the Fab Four .
No footage of thatTop of the Popsshow be in theBBC ’s archive , but in May 2019 , acollectorin Mexico chance upon a 19 - endorsement clip of the public presentation a kinfolk from Liverpool had shoot on their television when the carrying into action first aired in 1966 . After instruct of that discovery , a collector named David Chandler think that he had record the same episode on his wind - up camera when he was a teen . After look his garret , he discovered an old 8 mm reel with a 92 - second cartridge clip of The Beatles playing the song without audio . He also found footage he had recorded of other artists do onTop of the Pops , includingDusty Springfield , Ike and Tina Turner , and Tom Jones .
Chandler donated the rare film reels to Kaleidoscope , a non-profit-making organization dedicated to preserving old episode of classic television programs . you could watch the remastered interlingual rendition of the clip in the television below .
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