Paul rocks out in Atlanta

 May 1, 1993 - Atlanta, Georgia

Farewell to Atlanta

 

Ringo behind the keyboard

 

September 26, 1987

Arriving in Atlanta

 

September 25, 1987

The Keys to Atlanta

 August 18, 1965 - Atlanta, Georgia 

Thank you Atlanta!

 

May 19, 1976 -  Atlanta

The Lost Girls

 

August 18, 1965 -  Atlanta, Georgia

I tried so hard to locate the fan club girls in these photos from Atlanta that made these Beatle dolls and presented them to the boys for my up coming fan club book.    I just wasn't able to find them at all.   Great story I did find in a newspaper about them that is going to be included, but I'm still disappointed that I couldn't locate them. 

Hello Atlanta!

Atlanta

I think the lights that say "Beatles" is awesome! 

Three dolls

I am looking to find the four girls that made these Beatles dolls.   The four girls were from a fan club in Ohio but gave them to the Beatles during the press conference in Atlanta in 1965.     If anyone knows any more about this or where I can get a good photograph to use in my book, I would appreciate the help.

Atlanta

Two cameras

1965 tour

Meet backstage in Georgia

I always like seeing Paul interact with kids.   He is signing a Beatles trading card for this fan back in 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Off center but great

The Point

Atlanta GA

Sean Roper posted this photo on the Fab 4 Free For All (aka Sara's favorite Beatles podcast) facebook page and I asked him if I could share it here, which he kindly agreed!     Here is what he said about the photo:

Here's something never seen before. It's from the Atlanta show. The AP photographer who took it made this for me. He'd never made a print of it before so it's the only one!

What a treat it is, because Atlanta 1965 is a show that doesn't have a whole lot of photos available.  Thank you Sean for kindly sharing it and thank you AP photographer who took the photo!

The best sounding concert

Atlanta has long been considered the concert that had the best sound system.   The Beatles themselves commented during the tour about how great the sound was in Atlanta.    No one really knows WHY the sound was so great.  As photos show, there were not monitors on the stage (as had previously been said).   If you want to read a great theory about this, I highly recommend the book Some Fun Tonight  by Chuck Gunderson.   

Press conference and key to the city

Again---much thanks goes to Bruno for sending me all of the colored photographs.  

I was there! I was at the press conference. I was 15 years old, and my question was the one to Paul about Jane Asher. I wish I still had the pictures, but they were burned in a fire. But I DO still have their cigarette butts, LOL. What happened was I called the AJC and told ’em they should send a teenaged girl to the show and have her write a column about her impressions. They asked me if I wanted to do it, and OF COURSE, I said yes! I was in the front row at the press conference, and sat in the press box for the show. But I held hands with Paul for a few moments, and Ringo pronounced my name “Bubberly” plus I had a “moment” with John.  – Bev

Fans remember the Beatles in Atlanta

I want to recommend this article that was from Beatlesfan magazine.  

What fans that attended the concert have to say (found all around the world wide web)

I was there!!! My dad took me and my 3 younger bros (I was 14). Girls were screaming SO loud we could hardly hear them (the bass came though) but I was thrilled...I had just got a drum set started playing - later I took up bass and started playing professionally in the seventies - quit for about 30 years and just got back into it. Today the band I play in does "Something" "Taxman" and "I Saw Her Standing There". –H. Lee

I do remember Paul breaking a bass guitar string! To this day that's the only time I've ever seen that happen! I've played in clubs, frats, parties, you name it and I've played it! But I've never seen anybody break a bass string! – Steve

My best friend, Sarah and I were at this concert.  We had great seats, and actually could see the Beatles in the dugout as they popped their heads out to see the crowd.  I remember this was one of the only, if not the only concert that the seats were reserved seating.  Sadly for me I have lost touch with my friend Sarah and would love to find her again...Great memories!  Great music! – Rene

I was at this concert.  Not only could they hear themselves, we could hear them also.  Yes, there was a lot of screaming.  But, for the most part people sat and listened.  I had friends tell me they drove by the stadium and could hear them outside. – Betty

I was there with my sister, I am a friend of Red Jones a WQXI announcer that hired and worked with the Beatles, he said that Baker audio had to go to several places (like Columbia South Carolina) to gather enough equipment to do the show,  I was a 13 year old already playing and singing and I noted that the PA for the whole Atlanta stadium was only 4 voice of the theater altec lansing A-7s, laying nearly on their backs facing up towards the crowd. The stadium was halved, with the other half closed off.  –Carolotta

I was there on row 5 with my mom. Screaming and crying girls everywhere and arms reaching by me apparently trying to touch them. (The group was in the middle of a Major League Baseball field so that would be one heck of a reach!!!)- Tim

The screaming from the girls was louder than the sound system so they would start out with a song and you'd hear about the first three or four words of the song, and after that it would just be solid screaming.  –Cole

"It was mass hysteria, Normal-looking, church-going Southern girls were going absolutely nuts!" "It was so loud that you could barely hear the music. I've been to races at Talladega in Alabama, and the fans at this show were even louder than all of those souped-up cars!"  -- Lance

I was there at the Atlanta stadium show, I was 13 and have some vivid memories of them running out of the dugout to the second base stage.  I remember that the speakers for the whole Atlanta stadium were only 4 altec A-7s at first and third bases; they were leaned back supported by bricks and facing the audience! the Beatles said they could hear themselves in Atlanta so there must has been some sort of on stage monitors, I remember that as soon as they finished they quickly jumped into a black limo parked behind the stage and as they drove off they threw some white towels out the windows,  -Phil