First recorded 'cover' of The Beatles ...... plus BOOTLE: a short history (1800-1962)
This video originally set out simply to detail what is almost certainly the first ever ‘cover’ of a Beatles song - which took place in Bootle on the day after the group’s first record was released in the UK - Friday 5 October 1962. This is all discussed in the first 7 minutes of the video.
However, in the preparation of the video, I became engaged with some of the post-war 1960s issues in the dockland area of Bootle (northern Liverpool) where this recording took place. For those who may be interested, therefore, the final 50 or so minutes of the video look at some of the history of Dockside Bootle, and how the growth of the City of Liverpool affected it.
Starting from the late 18th Century, this history moves towards the final date of 1962, when the Beatles first single came out. The inevitable focus is what I have called in the video the “Poets Streets” - and the area of Dockland Bootle which contains St Leonard’s Church Hall (the venue where this recording took place).
I am a physicist and not an historian - which means that this video may not have been as thoroughly and ‘historically’ researched as some would have liked. In general, I have used secondary (and even tertiary) sources, as well as personal anecdotal recollections, but I am of the belief that the details should be accurate. Inevitably, there will be criticism – which I am happy to receive; I would simply ask that any comments be constructive - and with a view to clarifying things.
There are occasions within this video where I have simply quoted the text of what others have written – without indicating (at that point) whether it was a quote or where it had come from (which would have been my normal habit when writing text). However, for the sake of the ‘flow’ of the spoken text of the video, it seemed best not to insert the source information at that point, and I hope that the list of acknowledgements given at the end of the video will be sufficient ‘referencing’ for any such direct quotations.
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