NEMS Enterprises petty cash voucher issued to Paul McCartney on April 11, 1963, one page, 5 x 4, filled out in blue ballpoint by NEMS employee Olive Johnson, who adds the date and McCartney’s name to the upper right, “Paul,” who was issued a total of £30. Johnson adds to the main memo field: “Part payment against salary for week ending 5. April [1963].” Includes its original pay packet envelope, annotated with McCartney’s name. Vouchers like this one represent the payment method that Brian Epstein had arranged for the Beatles to receive their weekly wages. In fine condition, with overall creasing and a central vertical fold. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks.
In part one of his biography of The Beatles: All These Years, Mark Lewisohn recalls: ‘NEMS Enterprises continued to account to them every Friday, Beryl Adams handing out individually typed statements with the money just how they liked it: cash in little wage-packets. If the four weren't in Whitechapel together to pick them up, it might be collected by Paul or George, whoever was in town with his car, and sometimes it was taken round to them at home by Brian.’
The week ending April 5, 1963, was a busy one for the Beatles, as detailed below:
March 31st – The last night of the group’s UK tour with Tommy Roe and Chris Montez at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England.
April 1st – Record two radio programs at BBC Piccadilly Studios, London, England, for the BBC light program Side By Side.
April 3rd – Record a radio appearance on the BBC light program Easy Beat. The group rehearsed from 5:30 pm and the show was recorded between 8:30 pm and 9:45 pm in front of an audience at the Playhouse Theatre, London, England.
April 4th – Perform a concert at the Stowe School in Stowe, England, an unusual booking for the Beatles to play a mid-afternoon concert at a prestigious all-boys public school.
April 5th – Perform a concert at the Leyton Swimming Baths in Leyton, London. Earlier in the afternoon, the group had given a private live performance to record company executives at London’s EMI House during a special presentation ceremony to celebrate the award of their first silver disc for the single ‘Please Please Me.’
The April 4th event came about after one of the pupils, David Moores from Liverpool, wrote to Brian Epstein to see if he would consider letting the Beatles perform there. Brian must have been impressed with the pupil’s approach as the booking was made, and the Beatles performed in the school’s Roxburgh Hall. What made it even more unusual was the fact that there were no screaming fans. Just neat rows of well-behaved boys watching The Beatles perform. The group’s set list at the show went as follows: ‘I Saw Her Standing There,’ ‘Too Much Monkey Business,’ ‘Love Me Do,’ ‘Some Other Guy,’ ‘Misery,’ ‘I Just Don’t Understand,’ ‘A Shot of Rhythm and Blues,’ ‘Boys,’ ‘Matchbox,’ ‘From Me to You,’ ‘Thank You Girl,’ ‘Memphis Tennessee,’ ‘A Taste of Honey,’ and ‘Twist and Shout.’
