“I think if you’re a Beatles followers, it’s the holy grail, ” Kaleidoscope’s Chris Perry told BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson.
“People thought it was gone forever because videotape wasn’t kept in 1966. To find it all these years later was stunning.”
Image caption The Beatles in the Top of the Pops studio in 1966
The band pre-recorded chants for Top of the Pops on several occasions, but exclusively performed live once, on 16 June 1966. The action itself has long-been a talking item for Beatles obsessives.
In 2000, a BBC spokeswoman said: “We don’t know whether or not this particular fragment of Top of the Pops history has disappeared forever, but regrettably there was a duration when BBC programmes were not archived as carefully as they are today and some programmes were unhappily lost.”
The rediscovered time is likely to be screened at the BFI in London as one of the purposes of the Music Believed Wiped curriculum on 20 April.
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