The Percy Phillips Studio Collection 2018

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A new exhibition to be launched at International Beatle Week on 26th August will once again see the old adversaries, Everton and Liverpool FC, go head-to-head in an entirely different game of one-upmanship. The Percy Phillips Studio Collection will chart Percy’s pioneering work changed the musical landscape around the world, with recordings ranging from The Quarrymen to Ken Dodd to some ground-breaking football records from the city.

Amongst the treasures unearthed, both on display and available on CD and vinyl at the event, is the world’s first ever recorded football pop song, Everton’s E-V-E-R-T-O-N released in 1963. Meanwhile, Liverpool fans can look forward to no fewer than three rare discs, one of which features highlights from the notorious FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Leeds in 1965!

A mock-up of the original studio will house some historic memorabilia and previously unseen (and unheard!) artefacts and will be attended by musicians and celebrities, all to be announced in due course. For the first time, a vinyl and CD release featuring 70 tracks recorded at Percy Phillips Studio will be available to buy, signed by Percy’s grandson with tracks some of which have never before been made available. This is an event not to be missed by Beatles fans, music fans and those with an interest in Liverpool’s diverse cultural history.

Founded by Percy Phillips in 1955 in a small terraced house in the Kensington area of Liverpool, Phillips Sound Recording Service was the first of its kind in the city recording and cutting discs. It was here that Percy owned a record shop and created the first recording studio in Liverpool, achieving a number of firsts in the process:

  • Cut the first disc for The Quarrymen in July 1958, John, Paul and George later to form The Beatles
  • Demonstrated the first example of musique concrete in Liverpool on 28th September 1956
  • Cut the first rock n roll record in the city in 1957 – Johnny Guitar and Paul Murphy’s “She’s Got It”
  • Cut the first disc for Liverpool’s original rock n roller, Billy Fury, and the legendary Ken Dodd in 1958.
  • Cut the first ever football pop song for Everton football club in 1963
  • The city’s first public demonstration of stereo recording

Under the auspices of Peter Phillips, Percy’s grandson, the exhibition will fully recognise for the first time, the huge range of pioneering work achieved at the studio, with personal, previously unseen photos and artefacts from throughout the studio’s existence and telling the story for one of Britain’s greatest cultural innovators.

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