Rare pop music footage shown after 60 years

Rare archive footage of The Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney and The Beach Boys will be seen for the first time in decades.

The collection of performances will be shown at a screening held at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham on Saturday.

The visual line-up also includes never-seen-before showings of The Beatles and The Kinks.

Event organisers, Kaleidoscope, called the lost television footage "forensic archaeology" as well as "remarkable treasure" for fans everywhere.

The event will run from 10:00 to 17:00 BST in MAC’s cinema.

The "specially-selected" collection of pop music was taken from lost television archives, said Kaleidoscope.

The Pop at the MAC event will show never-before broadcast footage of The Rolling Stones’ Cry to Me from 1965, The Who at The Marquee and a TV special of The Beach Boys Down Under - including footage from a concert in Queensland in 1970.

There will also be screenings of The Beatles, The Kinks, and the final edition of the ITV music series Thank Your Lucky Stars, introduced by Jim Dale, screened on the original 405-line video tape.

Highlights include archive footage from Top of the Pops (TOTP) in 1966 plus Paul McCartney, Spandau Ballet and Hazel O'Connor recordings that were not used in other broadcasts of the show.

There will be screenings of The Geordie Scene from Tyne Tees TV in 1974 with performances from Cozy Powell and Beckett, and an unused insert from The Old Grey Whistle Test featuring The Kinks from 1972.

Kaleidoscope has uncovered lost TV footage of the TVS programme DJ from 1983, with a performance by New Order singing a version of Thieves Like Us.

Rarely seen performances from The Tremeloes rehearsing for TOTP’s Christmas Day special in 1967 and Paul McCartney’s ‘Press’, an alternative un-broadcast promo film, will also be screened.

Chris Perry, CEO of Kaleidoscope, said: "Finding lost television is like forensic archaeology.

"You find the clues and follow the trail. Rare and un-broadcast footage of The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Paul McCartney promos are real coups. This footage is a truly remarkable treasure for fans everywhere."