Guest host Hugh Downs. Talking about the Shea Stadium show the next day Aug. 23rd, 1966, their final appearance in NYC. This is when the Tonight Show was NYC based; they moved to LA in '72. They also discuss John's "bigger than Christ" comment, John's upcoming film How I Won the War, etc.
Love it! Was there for my first visit in July of 76 when I was 16. My sister was 13 and brother was 10. We now live in different parts of the country and still meet up at Disney with our families and now grand kids. I remember being mesmerized by the electrical light parade. It also had the bicentenial celebration going on as well.
Well, I can see why I'd never heard of Cliff Bennett or The Rattles before.... And seriously, who greenlit the name The Rattles???? I get that they were basing it off of rattle, as in getting rattled, but the word rat is what comes to mind first for me. The Beatles was a clever name because the name brings to mind the word beat. And they certainly had a beat to them...!
Incredible movie!!! Also, interestingly, the 1953 version of War of the Worlds is the only sci-fi movie where the Biblical God is the literal hero of the movie, not man. Think about it, there is not one thing/weapon/idea that the human characters in the film tried, that actually worked to any degree of success. Nor is there an actual human hero in the movie, neither male nor female. It's only at the very end, when all was almost lost, when people finally turned to God that they "won"! Not by doing anything themselves, but by waiting on God. That message is essentially a Biblical message, and completely antithetical to almost all of the output of every movie industry, whether in the West or in the East. I can not think of one other sci-fi movie where man is not the ultimate hero over every kind of challenge/adversity/opposing idea and calamitous event in this universe that you can use or imagine (i.e. both real and imaginary). In every single sci-fi movie it is man, and his strength (physical or psychic) and his superior (godlike) intelligence that win the day. Every. Single. Time. But this movie, ironically, coming out just 7 years after WW2, which severely killed both the morale and the morals of humanity, taught in the midst of one of atheists' most beloved genres, where humanism flourishes as the supreme god, that YHWH is king of the universe, and that He is the true God, and that the true God is good and trustworthy, and that He is the ultimate power in the universe. This movie, in freaking 1953, shamed the idea that aliens are more relevant or more powerful than God! Before the modern New Age Movement, before the UFO craze, before the technology of the 20th century truly kicked into high gear, before Marxism infested the West, even if the movie gave the aliens a very high level of advanced technology, far ahead of even the latest contemporary technology of nuclear power, this movie, based on a book written in the 19th century, made a firm statement that God is the One to whom man must turn, even in the midst of all of the vain riches of material abundance, technology and scientific knowledge. Now that is a unique, powerful and eternal message.
Wow. Paul's '61 Hofner backstage. I thought he had has Ricky as his backup on this tour. Perhaps the Ricky only went on the Germany/Japan/Philippines leg.
To John (uploader) & deguircecil7282 et al... this [impromptu/informal] tape session was conducted at the Warwick Hotel in New York City (on August 22, 1966); it was taped by WABC 770AM; this is confirmed [by Paul's comment, re: Jane Asher].
I collect George Harrison's interviews. I transcribed many of his ones (for example this one). Anyone who also collects George's interviews and who's also interested in? ANYONE!?!?
it's nice to have an actual "real" recording... I hate those damned videos that are synchronized to some *other* country -- especially, in a different state or country... or even year! I would rather just hear something, such as this, with perhaps just photos of [the] event or the actual concert -- with *no* other audio from another event.
This movie was so far ahead of its time. The science behind these scenes is amazing. Electronic force fields. Light amplified plasma weapons. This was 1953. Hard to believe anyone had thought of half these type of things back then.
Ran across this by accident a couple of days ago. Far out. Took me years and I finally found the concert. Was put on cd and sold to a friend. Don't have any longer.
I love this movie. Have since i was a kid. Beautifully rendered, acted to perfection. No cgi just inventive practical effects. One of my all time favorites.
Wow. What memories!! My first trip to Magic Kingdom was around 1976 at less than a year old I've been told. The best memories I've ever had were growing up visiting. It's a shame what the parks and resorts have become in Florida. I still believe in Disneyland.
Como está banda inigualable, no habrá otra Y recordemos un antes y un después con los Beatles Tengo 69 años y empeze a escucharlos a la edad de 11 años soy de la Cd de México y actualmente radico en Laredo Tx y los sigo escuchando
That exact moment 4:35 haunts me to this very day. You're in a civilian plane about to crash land and in the corner of your eye you see TWO MARTIAN WAR MACHINES
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To finish with my earlier comment out on the west coast the debut album being recorded and released during the following January was simply titled "The Doors" and the onetime teen kid who graduated in high school with the female friend of my Aunt was in fact named James D. "Jim" Morrison, the future rock singer legend of the Doors. I will also point out that the photo at 7:21 of the press conference above the head of George Harrison shows the name on what appears to be masking tape of (Don) "Lock", who was a baseball outfielder for the Washington Senators that year, but by the end of December had been traded to the Phila. Phillies for a pitcher named Darold Knowles. Another little remembered story was that the longtime team clubhouse attendant named Fred Baxter had all the Beatles autograph two baseballs, one for his family and the other at the request of a pitcher named Mike McCormick, who some four decades later would put the Beatles autographed baseball up for auction for a very hefty price!
This is quite interesting as someone that grew up around the nation's capital area during the 1960s and '70s. Nothing that's especially revealing was said at this press conference, but my own Aunt, who was still 21 and her next birthday was at least two more months away, went to D.C. Stadium that night with her female high school friend to see this concert (notice I used the word "see" since from several first hand accounts it could hardly even be heard by the concertgoers). Her friend finished high sch. a year prior than she did, there was this one classmate of her friend who was a very bright kid but was prone to sometimes behave very bizarrely. His father was a Navy Admiral stationed over at the Pentagon at that point, but by the time of this Beatles concert, this teen kid was now a 22-yr. old on the west coast recording a debut album with his college classmate and a couple of others, it would eventually be released the following January titled simply
I realize that we don't (yet) have a command of magnetic force, that would enable warships to "float" without any solid support; but the overall design of the Martian warships has always struck me as elegantly practical. I wonder if anyone has ever used the production designs from this film when designing actual weapons of war.
This is probably on my Top 5 movies ever. Saw this as a kid in the mid-60's and still watch it today every now and then. Even got my kids to watch it and they admit that it's pretty dang good. Being a born-and raised-in [Los] Angeleno and growing up less than 6 miles from downtown LA, it's funny to hear them refer to areas I know well; Puente Hills, Corona, and in the 1950's, those areas looked exactly as depicted here. Open fields and grazing land for cows even as recent as the 1980's. Now, it's highly-densified suburbia with endless cookie-cutter home tracts and very little open space.
The brief moment where the officer is "skeletized" required a very impressive number of individual dissolves. I'm no technician, so hope that's correct term. A lot of intensive work for a moment that lasts mere seconds. This, "The Thing" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are among my all time favorite sci-fi films. Admittedly, The Thing is more a horror movie, which was very innovative because producers wanting to do elaborate sci-fi films but didn't have the money, could focus on the horrible aliens (the "monsters") and just use sci-fi themes as a more peripheral background.
Very revealing press conference. Lennon says a couple of things that foreshadow his future , like recording experimental albums, returning his MBE or, sadly, being shot.
