Thursday, October 18, 2018

Was this the first Beatles riot?











If you didn't know better, you might think these photos were taken in Cleveland in 1966 or San Francisco in 1965 or Vancouver in 1964.    However --- you see the Beatles in the grey suits and British bobbies and learn that it was taken 55 years ago -- October 19, 1963. 

It looks like a full blown middle of Beatlemania concert riot.   Girls being pulled out of the audience while the Beatles play on,  cops telling the girls to be quiet and sit down, and finally, the curtain is closed.   

I need to find information about this concert because it is very interesting to see such crazy Beatlemania at a show in the fall of 1963.

6 comments:

  1. Beatlemania HUGE in UK long, long before USA!!!

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  2. Pavilion Gardens Ballroom, Buxton, Derbyshire

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  3. I need to know everything about this concert! I mean "we" need to know everything about this concert! Amazing!!!

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  4. Pavilion Gardens Ballroom Buxton Derbyshire UK 19th October 1963.

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  5. Isn't it generally known that Beatlemania started in the U.K.around October/November 1963? That wasn't that long before the U.S. fell under their spell too. (MarkZapp)

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  6. That's my mum they are carrying off the stage. Not really but I like to tease her. We lived in Derby at the time but, she was busy with me as a 7 month old.

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