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The Beatles First Time At The BBC

The first ever time the Beatles walked into a BBC recording studio was at the Playhouse Theatre in Manchester, England on Wednesday, 7th March 1962 before a live audience to perform on ‘Teenager’s Turn’, a regular radio pop music show.

Interestingly, the Beatles’s manager, Brian Epstein had insisted that they wear ties and suits to look smart and this was to set the Beatles’s look for the next few years of appearances in public. It also set the ‘standard’ look for most groups at the beginning of the 1960s and helped influence the way teenagers dressed.

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