BEATLES in BRISBANE - All the Buildings They Knew are Gone! 

Only knew Lennon’s on Queen Street for the $7 seafood buffet on a Sunday. This will be good to share with my mum, remembering the old buildings, sadly Brisbane likes to demo. I thought for sure it would have been St Bernard’s hotel at Tamborine, I wasn’t aware of the timber Eagles Heights hotel. Great story to remember.

My father was the restaurant manager of Lennon's and organised the food for the Beatles . My dad hated them they destroyed the rooms they were in . I own some of the plates they ate off while staying at Lennon's. The old Lennon's where the Beatles stayed in is now called the Mecure hotel just across the street from the old City Hall.

My mum saw one of the shows, sadly I already had been born and was not in utero. She reckoned she could not hear them at all, but she saw 'em play. When Macca hit the GC last year, I finally had the pleasure, too.

Hey Rob - great video. I used to work in the building next to Festival Hall. I managed to get a few bricks while it was being demolished and they are now part of the garden path at the side of my house. One of my co-workers got the actual seat she sat in from the Beatles concert (because she still had her ticket). From memory I think it was a whole row of seats because they were attached.

😂🤣Bob Katter chucking eggs at The Beatles as a teenager I wouldn’t be surprised if Sir Joh brought them the eggs “Now off you go and show them what’s what”😂

Great job...It's nice to see the places where the Beatles stayed in June '64 during their tour "Down Under".

Nice work Rob. You do get around! My memories of Festival Hall early 80's are great aussie bands, and sneaking in half bottles of spirits😁.

Never knew about the exploring part of the Brisbane trip. Great Video!

Just found out by watching this video the building I work in is on the same site of the old Lennon's hotel...

I’m a Beatles collector down the gold coast,thanks for the extra information and showing the old sites ,regarding festival hall I have three seats and the matching tickets 69,70,71

I reckon Mt Tamborine would have been pristine back then and being winter would have been perfect for them then

Same here , l had no idea Paul and George did the touristy thing . Cheers Rob .

Great video. Didn’t realise they did any exploring around the place.

Great video, I always like to stay at Festival Towers when I go to Brisbane. Love all the old concert photos throughout the building.

fantastic as always, thank you...

That was amazing! Thanks Rob!

I have a pic of them at Curtis Falls :)

Thanks for making this video- it was very entertaining and informative.

Interesting as always Rob. 👏🙂

Another subscriber who learnt something new - thanks for the great research!

Great job, I had no idea they went exploring.

Tearing down Festival Hall and replacing it with a meaningless nothing building is one of the greatest travesties in Brisbane history! Irreplaceable! Stupid politicians!

Great video.

Great video

When the Beatles visited Brisbane there were thousands of screaming fans in Queen St. I was in the Kings Building having singing lessons from Mr Will Stay, organist of the City Tabernacle Baptist Church. I was singing "I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair". The cultural difference was bigger than the grand canyon.

One of those women screaming in the background would have been my Mum. She was totally besotted with them

Hi Rob, Can you do a Vlog on Buddy Holly's visit to Brisbane and the Goldcoast in 1958 please🙏🏽

This was very cool - I had NO idea 2 of them went to Tambo 🙂

Well there is one person in this story who is still the same tosser. Thanks Bob.

5:53 haha Robert and Robert

I don’t know why they threw eggs and so forth at them. The infamous “Beatles are bigger than Jesus “ was in 1966. That was the beginning of the end of the Beatles massive popularity. I suppose they made the mistake of talking about politics or religion when they should have just kept quiet. Anyway those security guards that accompanied them up to Mt Tamborine and the Gold Coast would have some interesting stories. Probably too old or gone now but I’m sure their families were told plenty

hahaha aaa the old cricket bat hey , well thats what we use to call it .the lennons hotel.

Did you go in for a dip after you turned your camera off?