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An Australian musician has picked up the flea market find of a lifetime after discovering some previously unseen footage of The Beatles performing live in Sydney in 1964.
Greg Perano, who was a founding member of legendary Australian band Hunters & Collectors, paid just $11 for a box of eight-millimetre film at a market in Sydney, only to discover that one of the boxes was inscribed with band’s name and contained close-up footage of The Beatles playing live at Sydney Stadium in 1964.
“I sat down, and I went, ‘the guy’s on stage. He’s filming on stage’,” Perano tells Australian new show A Current Affair. “It’s really good, beautiful black and white, 8mm quality. It just brought back all those memories, because it’s not like a big band now playing up to the cameras.
“It’s a band who look like they’re in a small club really enjoying playing. You see a band in its formative stage where they were really good live.”
The footage was originally shot by Gil Wahlquist, a former music writer for the Sydney Morning Herald who died in 2012. Perano has been given the blessing of Wahlquist’s family to keep the film, which includes silent footage of the band playing their early hit Love Me Do.
“There was that moment where George and Paul, like everyone who watches it, goes ‘woooooooo’, so you know exactly what the song is,” says Perano.
The Beatles’ 1964 world tour included eight shows in Australia and six in New Zealand, where the then 11-year-old Perano lived. During the band’s time in NZ, Perano climbed a hill in Picton, on the north end of the South Island, in the hope that he’d be able to hear the band’s show in Wellington, 100km away at the south end of the North Island.
“We figured if we went up and the wind was blowing right, we might be able to hear some of the concerts,” he says. “So about 12 of us went out, like girls and boys… and one minute, we thought we could hear the Beatles, but it was being played down in the town. Of course we couldn’t hear them, but it was just that we knew that they were 100 kilometres away doing our show.”
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- The Beatles - Free As A Bird - EX - UK - 7" vinyl - £45.00, $56.70, €54.45 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:26)on February 21, 2025 at 8:06 pm
THE BEATLES Free As A Bird (1995 UK limited edition injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Christmas Time (Is Here Again), housed in a glossy flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve has some light ringwear and the the vinyl has minimalsigns of play, overall an Excellent example R6422)
- The Beatles - The Beatles In Mono - Sealed - UK - cd album box set - £395.00, $497.70, €477.95 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 21, 2025 at 8:06 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles In Mono (Sealed 2009 UK limited edition 13-CD album set manufactured in Japan. The 1960's represented a time of great advances in music recording & reproduction. During the period that The Beatles were recording [1962-1969] the primary format wasMono - the installed base of mono players was massive with stereo the preserve of hi-fi fanatics & some easy listening and classical purists. In fact, Mono was so important that the Beatles themselves [once theyhad started to take aninterestin the physical production of their music] attended only the Mono mastering sessions. The stereo mastering was often done separately & sometimes quite a bit later without their involvement. So for many, the Mono masters are considered to be the pinnacle of audio reproduction of The Beatles - this is how they were meant to sound at the time given the importance of the single channel medium. From 'Please Please Me' to 'The White Album', all the original mixes are represented here in full, glorious mono! 'Past Masters' has been recreated as Mono masters to reflect this period, duplicating the 'Past Masters' tracklisting with the exception of tracks that only ever appeared in stereo. As an added bonus, five tracks [never previously released in mono] are included. These are 'Only A Northern Song', 'All Together Now', 'Hey Bulldog' & 'It's All Too Much' [from the 'Yellow Submarine' project] plus 'Across The Universe'. These were originally scheduled for release on a 1969 EP. There is a fantastic essay in the Mono Masters booklet that explains in detail the history of these recordings & goes some way to highlight just why these versions are so eagerly anticipated. With the collector in mind, both 'Help!' & 'Rubber Soul' now contain the original 1965 stereo mixes on CD for the first time, since Sir George Martin had actually remixed these for their CD debut in 1987 rendering these original mixes unavailable. Apart from the first four albums ['Please Please Me' to 'Beatles For Sale'] which have been available in mono on CD since 1987, the remaining titles are making their CD debut in this format plus the Mono Masters set has received the remastering treatment by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road studios. All the albums [apart from Mono Masters] come in LP-style packaging reduced in exquisite detail to CD-sized format, with everything from the recreation of the vinyl label to the paper inner sleeve replete with original text. The jackets are exact reproductions of the original UK vinyl releases & have been manufactured in Japan, to the very highest quality and attention to detail)
- The Beatles - Happy Christmas Beatle People! - Sealed - UK - 7" box set - £174.99, $220.49, €211.74 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 21, 2025 at 8:06 pm
THE BEATLES Happy Christmas Beatle People! (2017 UK limited edition boxset comprising the Fab Four's original festive messages, which were issued every year to the fan club on flexi-disc and now come pressed on SEVEN factory sealed 7"s,complete with a sixteen page booklet with recording notes and reproductions of the fan club's National Newsletters, in a special picture box)
- The Beatles - The Beatles (In Stereo) + Slipcase - UK - cd album box set - £175.00, $220.50, €211.75 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 21, 2025 at 8:06 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles (In Stereo) (2009 UK limited edition box set containing all thirteen original albums [from 'Please Please Me' to 'Let It Be' & the 'Past Masters' which has been remastered and repackaged as a double CD. Each original album comes with a bonus enhanced video for the 'Making Of' using exclusive original footage from the Beatles' own archive & other rare footage, with voice-over by The Beatles themselves and George Martin. These have also been collated onto a bonus NTSC DVD unique to this set. Housed in a high quality box with magnetic fastening, with each album in triple panel card package using conservation grade FSC paper and complete with a set of historical notes on each album to accompany recording notes on the actual process of making the records at the time. The packaging shows just a little light wear mostly to the corners, and all discs appear in an 'as new' condition!)
- The Beatles - Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £20.00, $25.20, €24.20 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 21, 2025 at 8:06 pm
THE BEATLES Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany 1962 (1977 UK 26-track double vinyl LP featuring a collection of live tracks historically recorded by Ted 'King Size' Taylor when the band were, according to John Lennon many years later,at their performing peak as a live band. By some minor miracle, it was also a night in which Ringo was deputising for Pete Best on the drum stool. The gatefold picture sleeve has a little shelfwear/light scuffing whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of play)
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