23 Girls Gate Crash Beatles Show
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Evening Post
December 11, 1965
The officials at a London cinema where the Beatles were playing last night got a shock just before they opened the doors to more than 3,000 teenage fans. For already inside the cinema were 23 girls-- three of them fast asleep. None of the girls had a ticket.
"How they got in? I don't know," said a commissioner. No one knew how long the girls had been inside the cinema, the Hammersmith Odeon, but they were escorted out before the show began.
The Beatles show was the last in a week long nationwide tour.
Their first house spot went with its usual din-- screaming girls standing on seats, and inaudibility. The group's performance of their latest single "Day Tripper," and "We Can Work It Out," and numbers from their new LP. Rubber Soul had an ecstatic reception.
One of the visitors to the show was comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, who, like the Beatles, comes from Liverpool.
Score for the first house: two rows of seats wrenched from their bases, and seventy-three cases of fainting. The second house was half an hour late in starting to allow time for the theater staff to re-bolt some of the seats which were dislodged and overturned.
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