An Australian musician has picked up the flea market find of a lifetime after discovering some previously unseen footage of The Beatles performing live in Sydney in 1964. Greg Perano, who was a founding member of legendary Australian band Hunters & Collectors, paid just $11 for a box of eight-millimetre film at a market in Sydney, only to discover that one of the boxes was inscribed with band's name and contained close-up footage of The Beatles playing live at Sydney Stadium in 1964. "I sat down, and I went, ‘the guy's on stage.
He's filming on stage'," Perano tells Australian new show . “It’s really good, beautiful black and white, 8mm quality. It just brought back all those memories, because it's not like a big band now playing up to the cameras.
"It's a band who look like they’re in a small club really enjoying playing. You see a band in its formative stage where they were really good live." The footage was originally shot by Gil Wahlquist, a former music writer for the who died in 2012.
Perano has been given the blessing of Wahlquist's family to keep the film, which includes silent footage of the band playing their early hit . "There was that moment where George and Paul, like everyone who watches it, goes 'woooooooo', so you know exactly what the song is," says Perano. The Beatles' 1964 world tour included eight shows in Australia and six in New Zealand, where the then 11-year-old Perano lived.
During the band's time in NZ, Perano climbed a hill in Picton, on the.
