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The Beatles' Christmas Show opens at The Astoria, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK, Europe, featuring The Beatles Cilla Black, Rolf Harris, Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, The Barron Knights, The Fourmost and Tommy Quickly.Full article:
Mal Evans (road manager) : I lost John's guitar. It was one he'd had for years as well. It just disappeared. 'Where's my Jumbo?' he said. I didn't know. It's still a mystery today. I fairly got it that day.
Butch Baker (Barron Knights) : When we looked out of the dressing room windows, the streets were crammed with people as far as the eye could see.
Rolf Harris : I was the compere on their Christmas Show at Finsbury Park. John had a microphone offstage one night and was mucking about, making comments during my act and wrecking it. After the show, I stormed into his dressing room and said, "If you want to mess around with anybody else's acts, OK, but don't mess mine up again." He was shocked that anyone would shout at him like that, but I was so livid. He left me alone after that.
Joanna Marcus (fan) : All you could see were the heads of girls, and a nurse standing at the end of each row waiting to help those who fainted. The build-up before they came on was so intense you could almost see it. Once they came on at the end of the first half and performed a little play - a melodrama. Paul played the hero, John was the villain, George was an old lady and Ringo made a rather surreal appearance as Father Christmas, scattering snowflakes from a large basket.
You couldn't hear a word they were saying for the screaming, but it still seemed to me the most hilarious thing I'd ever seen. In the second half they actually sang and played for about forty minutes.
Toni Avern (manager, Barron Knights) : The Beatles used to start their act by standing on a blacked-out stage and a pin-spot used to pick out each one's head in turn and the crowd would go wild. One night, a couple of The Barron Knights held John in the wings so that he couldn't take his place on the stand. John was the last one to be lit up and, when the light came on, he wasn't there.
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Butch Baker (Barron Knights) : When we looked out of the dressing room windows, the streets were crammed with people as far as the eye could see.
Rolf Harris : I was the compere on their Christmas Show at Finsbury Park. John had a microphone offstage one night and was mucking about, making comments during my act and wrecking it. After the show, I stormed into his dressing room and said, "If you want to mess around with anybody else's acts, OK, but don't mess mine up again." He was shocked that anyone would shout at him like that, but I was so livid. He left me alone after that.
Joanna Marcus (fan) : All you could see were the heads of girls, and a nurse standing at the end of each row waiting to help those who fainted. The build-up before they came on was so intense you could almost see it. Once they came on at the end of the first half and performed a little play - a melodrama. Paul played the hero, John was the villain, George was an old lady and Ringo made a rather surreal appearance as Father Christmas, scattering snowflakes from a large basket.
You couldn't hear a word they were saying for the screaming, but it still seemed to me the most hilarious thing I'd ever seen. In the second half they actually sang and played for about forty minutes.
Toni Avern (manager, Barron Knights) : The Beatles used to start their act by standing on a blacked-out stage and a pin-spot used to pick out each one's head in turn and the crowd would go wild. One night, a couple of The Barron Knights held John in the wings so that he couldn't take his place on the stand. John was the last one to be lit up and, when the light came on, he wasn't there.
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