The Rolbeatles Live At Roxburgh Theatre!

One of The Beatles’ more unusual live engagements, certainly for 1963: a performance at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. Stowe School was a prestigious all-boys public school. The event came about after one of the pupils, David Moores from Liverpool, contacted John to see if The Beatles would consider performing. John was impressed enough with Moores’ approach that he agreed to the booking. The performance in the school’s Roxburgh Hall was unusual for another reason: the boys sat in neat rows watching the performance, without a single scream to be heard. David Magnus, an assistant to the photographer Dezo Hoffman, took a number of photos of the event.