The Beatles 1963 Recording Unearthed Decades After Band's Split

The newly-surfaced recording The Beatles made in 1963 has been released, becoming the earliest known full recording of the band.

BBC 4 "Front Row" released a snippet of the previously-unheard recordings by the Fab Four in the UK. Upon its release, it has become the band's earliest known audio.

Listen to The Beatles' Unearthed 1963 Recording

In an interview with BBC, John Bloomfield - a student at the Stowe all-boys boarding school in Buckinghamshire when he recorded the tape - said how unbelievable it was to hear the band perform live at that time.

"I would say I grew up at that very instant," Bloomfield said. "It sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but I realized this was something from a different planet."

He was only 15 when The Beatles performed at his school's theater on April 4, 1963. The band came to the school after one of the students, David Moores, sent a request to the group's late manager, Brian Epstein.

To complete the fee, the student sold tickets to his schoolmates and managed to bring The Beatles to the school.

In the hourlong recording, The Beatles can be heard singing covers, including "Too Much Monkey Business" by Chuck Berry. They also performed songs from their debut album, "Please Please Me," which was released two weeks before their appearance.

In total, The Beatles reportedly sang 22 songs in an hour and granted some requests made by the students. John Lennon was recorded mimicking Ringo Starr, who, at that time, could not sing because of issues with his vocals.

In the broadcast, The Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn said that the opportunity the tape was able to record was "completely out of the blue" (via Ultimate Classic Rock).

"And at that point, all audience recordings become blanketed in screams. ... I think it's an incredibly important recording, and I hope something good and constructive and creative eventually happens to it," he went on.

Unseen Photos of The Beatles Up for Sale

Apart from the recent recording, unseen photos of the band during their 1965 tour also surfaced at an auction. They were sold for a whopping $5,400, and the package includes 38 original prints and 12 rolls of film and color transparencies with full copyright.

Omega Auctions manager Dan Hampson said there had been "unprecedented interest" even before the auction.

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