On today’s Fresh Air Terry Gross interviewed Kevin Howlett, the guy who spent years tracking down recordings of The Beatles’ performances at the BBC in order to produce the “On Air — Live at the BBC Volume 2” album back in 2013. Many of them had to be acquired from fans who’d recorded them off their radios; astonishingly, the BBC kept no master tapes of live performances by artists in their studios at the time.

I’ve got the album. It’s super. Here’s a cut which appeared on the “Please Please Me” album in the UK and on the Vee-Jay album “Introducing…the Beatles” in the US.