At a press conference after their arrival, John Lennon was asked by a reporter, "John, what did you expect to find in Australia"? ,to which Lennon replied- "Australians!".
Years ago I had an older friend who told me his tale of seeing the Beatles in concert in Brisbane at Festival Hall (long demolished). He had saved his pocket money to buy a ticket - along with some school friends - even though his parents banned him from going. On the night of the concert he climbed out his bedroom window and caught a bus to town. When the show started he said you couldn't hear a single note they were playing because everyone was screaming; he then realised he was screaming too, even though he couldn't explain why! He got into quite a bit of trouble from his parents when he got home, but said it was one of the best days of his life. Whenever he told this story his eye would always shine and a smile would light up his face, even decades later. BTW when he left school he got a job in the music industry, so I guess the Beatles changed his life.
Energy and enthusiasm from a large crowd can be great stuff at a concert. Even the oppressive wall of sound from a crowd erupting can be exhilirating - at the right moments. Singing along, so that you have a band leading hundreds or thousands of people in a big huge belting crowd rendition version of their hits - awesome. Losing your shit with excitment to the point that you climb up on stage and leap into a mass of humans that are charged up in a way only live music does for people, getting carried around in an ebb and flow that moves with the music - lots of fun. Feeling the ground rumble beneath you as a sea of people dance or stomp in beat together to a thumping great song - awe inspiring and sometimes even kind of spiritual. Leaping into the flurry of chaos and hype that is a good mosh pit when the band slams into a doozy of a track - exhilirating and endlessly fun. All these things describe the kind of fanatical energy that can make live music with big crowds transcendant and distinctly human in a really awesome way. But drowning in a sea of shrieks from beginning to end, no back and forth with the band at all, barely an acknowledgememt that there is any music...? What's fun about that?
See what makes live music so great (IMO) is that usually the fans want to hear the music and are also musically inclined (at least insofar as they enjoy music and will pay to see it), so there ends up being a rhythm to their participation in the music. THAT'S what makes a good stadium/outdoor concert IMO. When the fan enthusiasm acts as an extension of the music, when tons and tons of people USE the fact that there are tons and tons of them to add a layer of depth to the musical experience thar they can't get just listening to the music at home alone. Beatles fans appeared to have done the exact OPPOSITE of that. It's like the crowds shriek when the band comes on stage, "okay fine they're excited," then the music starts and the shrieks intensify... "fair enough they're psyched for the music." But then it just... persists. As if to make damned sure you can't actually make out that there's music going on. "Oh you like Beatles music? Fuck you we like screaming so tough shit you have to listen to us instead. They'll be playing like shit anyways because they can't hear themselves either!" They might as well have used their ticket money to rent a stadium and shriek at a cardboard cut out of the band. Could have gotten it out of their system so the music fans could actually get a chance to see and HEAR live Beatles music, you know? It's just lacking in basic concert etiquette. Boy bands have it rough lol. Their fans make a shitty audience.
Paul had his 22nd birthday, during the Australian tour. George was 21, and John and Ringo were 23 years old. There’s a supernatural element to the manner in which the global population, literally, idolised these 4 very young men, like gods.
I was 9 years old, when beatles were so popular all over the world, I learned to admire the group at my teen age through the radio, they are really fantastic, superb incomparable, their songs will stay forever it will no be forgotten,
Without any hype 300, 000 fans turned out in Adelaide. There is no other band in the world that has ever deserved such adulation. The kids were smart back then. They recognised a musical phenomenon which we will never experience again.
They were no smarter than kids now. The biggest Beatles crowd in the world only in Australia, 300, 000 didn't turn up elsewhere in the world. Besides those fans only liked the Beatles when they were doing 3 minute catchy simple pop songs. As the Beatles progressed into more sophsticated writing half of those kids wouldn't be interested.
@@Raider577 You should remember that the fans grew just like the fab four. The kids that were 13 in 1963 were 16 in 1966 and I bet most of them loved an album like Revolver much more than their early work.
Lol, also the first Ed Sullivan show had a US audience of 73 million! The Our World broadcast, had like 400 Million people tune in, Bealtes performed 1 song.
Biggest crowd anywhere in the world, any time. Wow. Believe me when I say they changed everything. I was 15 when I saw them in Atlanta. They were Fab. They were from another planet, another time.
Em Rog, This was larger than Woodstock. This was people, lined from the airport right into the city, with people in trees, that is a lot of people. I mean, think about that. From the airport to the city. Then near the hotel alone, another crowd of at least 350,000, some have estimated higher. Woodstock, was a bunch of bands playing for a long time, this was the Beatles, one band, merely showing up, just people lining the streets and crowd the hotel to see them. Some of the most crazy reaction I have ever seen. I don't think this wil be duplicated. See this short video on their arrival at Adelaide ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b3pAjHg-XSU.html
This was well put together 10 years ago(in 2014) by EMI Australia, it's now approaching 60 years since The Beatles historic one-off tour of Australia & hopefully they'll have a 60th anniversary t.v special 📺 of the event?, God bless The Beatles!🙏🎶🎵
I just watched a John Lennon interview with Eliot Mintz and he says his fondest memories as a Beatle were going to the US for the first time and Going to Australia.
I think the biggest 4 year change in culture, dress, & visuals in the history of the world came between 1964 and 1968...I mean, in '64 they had bob cuts and wore suits, by '68 they had beards, mustaches, & long stringy hair..They were almost unrecognizable just 4 short years later!
@@sarthaktegta4642 - and yet he lives on 44 years after his passing like know other artist in history. Also, they couldn’t compare to him in stage performance and vocal abilities. I still like them though
One big difference about the crowd then and the crowds now, they were GENUINE, not like the coached yelling and screaming you hear today. nobody told them when to start screaming and on who's queue.
Yep i was 5 years old when i heard them singing in tv help i was born in their era 1961 im still young then but when you were bor in 1955 you may be aware and will look for them but still im amazed by their popularity and songs as a band that time and no doubt they are on top and nostalgic thats why im curious and became their avid admirer but i still dont know their individual story before this presetn generation only
@@Raider577What do you mean? Wherever they went there were huge crowds to greet them, if Australia’s 300,0000 thousand was a record it doesn’t mean they didn’t attract vast crowds elsewhere. In America they had ticker tape parades, In the Philippines George Harrison said “it seemed like there were millions there”
@@johnp515 I know they attracted crowds wherever they went but in Australia that was the biggest attendance they ever had. Though Abba in Australia may have come close.
Yep, and then thousands of people, young and old lined the highway for miles all the way from the airport into the city, with many people in the trees. Just for a "glimpse".
I was 3 and a half year's old and I still remember watching with my Brother 6 and a half and of course Mum we we're all in front of the TV screaming lol true I remember so vividly baci x
mindblowing those crowds.....can you imagine anyone getting 300,ooo people showing up on the streets to see them these days? In terms of magnitude of fame no one before or after matched the beatles at the height of beatlemania
On this day in Music - 12 Jun 1964 The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia and were greeted by an estimated 300,000 fans, (the biggest welcome the band would ever receive), who lined the ten-mile route from the airport to the city centre. The group gave their first four shows in Australia at the Centennial Hall, Adelaide over two nights, playing: I Saw Her Standing There, I Want To Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, She Loves You, Till There Was You, Roll Over Beethoven, Can't Buy Me Love, This Boy, Long Tall Sally and Twist And Shout. Temporary member Jimmy Nicol was standing in for Ringo on drums who was recovering from having his tonsils removed.
that's not true, the beatles played at cominsky park in chicago, that stadium is still used today, and they also played at busch stadium and i believe that staidum is still standing,not sure about the gator bowl but that might still be standing as well. and the hollywood bowl is still there and being used today,
@@sliat1981 oh so now you change your comment to appear right, haha well you didnt say that in your original comment, you said out of all then places they played. you didnt say out of all the places they played in australia
@@sliat1981 so what if this video is of their australian tour, i see people leaving comments from shea stadium talking about their concerts in australia
@@archangelmusic13 I never once changed my comment. When does it say it was edited. Are you on drugs!? Did you even read my comment? Why the hell would I say that on anything but an Australian video. And Shea Stadium is not even the only American place they played still standing let alone the world
I was 7 months old when this tour occurred . Currently I’m not in too good a state , with spinal issues and nerve pain impacting my ability ( nothing new I’ve had problems since my early adulthood ) Meanwhile Paul McCartney is performing tonight in Melbourne , at 81 !!! He’s truly incredible . 👏👏👏
My dad said that when they went to Adelaide he was 8 and his dad owned a house next to the Adelaide Royal show grounds. He said that all he could hear was the screaming of women that was so loud he could barely hear the music lol
All the big acts toured Australia with the exception of Elvis. The Aussie promoters had booked the Beatles to tour Australia back in 1963. They made an absolute fortune out of them as they booked the Beatles before they took off in the US and got them on the cheap.
Mancava poco che i Beatles in concerto in Australia andassero a suonare e cantare al Polo Sud in mezzo ai pinguini per essere sempre applauditi anche da loro.
I wonder how it was in every country that they went to all the people cane iyt to line the srreets if even just to see their limo/ envoy ride by. IN AMERICA THEY EVEN BLOCKED THE QUEENS BRIDGE WOW.. Thats a a very tall long bridge. That's awfully crowded. Wow!!! If someone were to have fallen it would've been game over.
My mum was in the crowd her shoe slipped off she bent down and the crowd surges she said it was so awful ..... bumma she wasnt interested going to see Paul McCartney 2023 😢😢😢😢😢
FOR AMERICANS, THE BEATLES ARRIVAL IN 1964 WOULD ALWAYS BE A PHENOMENAL OCCASION ASSOCIATED TO THEM ONLY.I JUST WONDER WHETHER THEY ACTUALLY KNEW THAT THE FAB FOUR WERE IN DOWN UNDER OR AUSTRALIA.
No exageran nada cuando dicen que la tía Mimi se vuelve a Inglaterra al ver semejante multitud para ver a su sobrino y los demás chicos teniendo en cuenta la población de Australia de ese entonces debe ser la mayor cantidad de gente reunida para ver a un grupo de Rock en todo el siglo XX
I'm sorry but it was unintentionally hilarious to me when the newscaster was saying Brian Epstein wanted the Beatles to return to Australia then the graphic bluntly said they never returned.
I think the crowds were so intense because back then concert venues were smaller, there were no fan cams, no social media. If you couldn't go to their concert you had to try and see them at the airport or wait for them to appear on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. BTS' popularity can be compared to the Beatles at that time, selling out stadiums with 90,000 capacity, and they do get mobbed at airports but it's not as intense because social media helps fans connect more.
Nothing compares to the Beatles. Not even Michael Jackson. If anything social media helps to create a buzz. When the Beatles played, no could even hear them live, and the performances were only 20-30 minutes. No Light Show. No audio effects. Just them way in the distance. The Beatles, were unique as they were a SOCIAL/POP/Phenomena. This wasn't crowds and fans, this was nearly entire cities coming out to greet them. Miles and Miles of people, along the highway, from the airport into the City Sq. People hanging out of buildings, out of trees as this video shows. People, who were not even fans, talking about them all the time, wherever you go. This is what Mick Jagger of the Rolling STones said: Quote"The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn't a real comparison with anyone now. I suppose Michael Jackson at one point, but it still doesn't quite seem the same. They were so big that to be competitive with them was impossible. I'm talking about in record sales and tours and all this. They were huge."
On the disc of Paul McCartney's band playing in Red Square in Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev said "The Beatles, more than any other western institution, were responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union." The Russian defense minister on that same disc said "The greatest day of my life was the day when I was allowed to buy the Beatles albums." And Mr. Putin said he couldn't make the concert, but he showed up. The crowd parted like the Red Sea for Mr. Putin to sit down and dig some Beatles music.
@@informedcarpet Adelaide ? Over here there’s a general consensus that pretty much everyone between 13 and 45 turned out, I wasn’t there, partly because I was 4 years old and because I wasn’t in adelaide at that moment, I wasn’t around to accurately count them, but it’s generally assumed that most of the population at the time lined the route from the airport into the city ( the airport in Adelaide is uncommonly close to the CBD) if it wasn’t 300,000 then I apologise to your more accurate count, clearly you have more facts and information at your fingers, and I apologise for being so misinformed. So, how many were actually there ? Just, soI don’t repeat my embarrassing and misinformed guesstimate ?