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BBC Restores 1964 Beatles Top of Pops Footage

6/19/2026

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Film Is Fabulous received a BBC negative of Beatles’ Top of Pops show on 19 March 1964, donated at convention in Oxted, Surrey.
Film Is Fabulous will restore negative for BBC archives.
If restoration succeeds, footage of Beatles performing “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That”, 20 March 1964 single hit Number One, will become oldest Beatles Top of Pops recording and be shared by Film Is Fabulous and BBC divisions.

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Film Is Fabulous received a BBC negative of Beatles’ Top of Pops show on 19 March 1964, donated at convention in Oxted, Surrey.
Film Is Fabulous will restore negative for BBC archives.
If restoration succeeds, footage of Beatles performing “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That”, 20 March 1964 single hit Number One, will become oldest Beatles Top of Pops recording and be shared by Film Is Fabulous and BBC divisions.