Liverpool Beatles Museum have unveiled its latest exhibit. The green room furniture from Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight. It serves to underline two important milestones on the Fab Four's journey to stardom - Ringo Starr's first performance in the band and the Beatles first interview.
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00:00Liverpool Beatles Museum have unveiled its latest acquisition.
00:04The green room furniture from Hume Hall in Port Sunlight serves to underline
00:08two important milestones on the Fab Four's journey to stardom.
00:12Ringo Starr's first performance with the band and the Beatles' first interview.
00:17Prior to the Beatles' performance on the 27th of October 1962,
00:21the group was interviewed by Monty Lister for patients of local hospitals at Cleve and Clatterbridge.
00:26Legendary Liverpool radio presenter Billy Butler has first-hand knowledge of those early days.
00:32It's wonderful to see somebody like Monty recognised. He was so far ahead of his time.
00:36He interviewed people who we only dreamed about when Monty interviewed them and he never told
00:43anyone. You know, it was Spencer Lee actually who dubbed him for Major. Spencer then interviewed
00:48all these people. I couldn't believe it. There's a man who sat in the same dressing room with
00:53Eddie Cochran and Billy Fiore.
00:55The interview was broadcast on hospital radio the next day on Lister's regular show Sunday Spin.
01:01And the fact that he had a record player on the table and I was playing the records and putting
01:06my arm on the record as it went round and everything at the very start and then he
01:10organised disc jockey sessions at Gladstone Hall for lunchtime. You know, incredible.
01:16This was the first ever interview given by the Beatles to be broadcast on the radio.
01:21Hulme Hall was also the location of Ringo Starr's first engagement with the Beatles
01:25on the 18th of August 1962.
01:28The Beatles' first ever radio interview is fascinating not just as an historical artefact
01:33but because of its content being a typically witty exchange holding many of the ingredients
01:38that, not long after, would combine to produce the musical and cultural phenomenon we know of today.
01:44Stuff there that probably at that time the papers didn't know about.
01:48Especially with Paul saying John's the leader of the group.
01:51The three items of furniture also visible in photos of the band also on display
01:55were retrieved during a recent renovation.