Earliest Known Recording of The Quarrymen - Woolton Village Fete 1957

#TheBeatles #Quarrymen #WooltonVillageFete #johnlennon This is the earliest recorded material of John Lennon. What you’re hearing now is what a young James Paul McCartney heard when he went to watch The Quarrymen for the first time. The tape was recorded on a portable Grundig TK8 by Bob Molyneux, a member of the church’s youth club who is now a retired policeman. In 1963, he offered the tape to Lennon, through Ringo Starr. But Lennon never responded, so Mr. Molyneux put the tape in a vault. When he offered it to Sotheby’s in May 1994, the auction house asked Mark Lewisohn, a Beatles expert who wrote about the performance in “The Complete Beatles Chronicle,“ to listen to the recording. “As soon as I heard the tape it was quite clear that it was John Lennon,“ Mr. Lewisohn said yesterday. “He was 16 years old, but it was that same distinctive voice. To suddenly come across a tape of an unknown band of teen-age musicians playing in a small town 37 yea