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Backstage with the Beatles
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Birmingham Weekly Mercury
December 12, 1965
The other night in Birmingham, a bouncing ball of sound and fury burst out of a darkened stage and shot the tingling senses of 5,000 teenagers through a timeless hour.
The Beatles came to the city's Odeon Cinema at a little after eight o'clock. They buttoned up their drab, superbly cut military style jackets, filed down a corridor, and spilled onto the stage. Ringo fiddled with the screws holding down his bass drum. John made faces and pulled his black cap down a notch. Paul grinned and tapped his toe on the boards. George, hollow-cheeked and angular, squinted into a spotlight and scratched his fluffy head.
One of them said "Lizzie", and they were off, bathed in a coat of bluey-purple light, ducking the flying jelly babies and doing their best to cut through the screams with that famous, compelling nasal drone. They looked as if they were enjoying it, and I think they probably were.
When it was all over, they went back to watch their favorite program, "The Man from UNCLE," and drank coffee.
Up in the manager's office, the phone rang, and a girl's voice said, "Can I speak to George Harrison, please?" They told her that George was tired.
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