Fact #52387
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Two further editions of the radio show Pop Go The Beatles are recorded by the group at the BBC's Paris Studio, London, England, UK, Europe, before the night's shows at The Granada, Tooting, on a nationwide tour with Roy Orbison.Full article:
Tony Bramwell (assistant road manager) : In the summer of 63, I hadn't seen them for a while because I'd been working in the NEMS office in Liverpool. Brian Epstein sent me down to London to give them their wages, which was probably only the second time I'd ever been to London, England, UK, Europe. I got the overnight train, arrived about 7.00 in the morning and went to meet them at the Shaftesbury Hotel, which was where they were supposed to be staying, because it was at Seven Dials, near the London office.
Of course, they weren't there, hadn't even been staying there. So I set off to find them, wandering down Charing Cross Road to Macari's and the music shops, then along Denmark Street to the café where they used to go, and after a while I got lost. I ended up walking down Lower Regent Street and I walked into them completely by luck. They were on their way to the BBC's Paris Studio to do a session.
So that night I went along to the gig with Roy Orbison at the Granada Cinema in Tooting and I was just stunned.
I remember when we pulled up outside the front of the Tooting Granada, there was a huge crowd of fans. The Beatles leapt out of the bus and ran for The Doors, which were supposed to have been left unlocked, but instead they were locked. The fans swarmed over the band and there was a couple of hairy moments, until the people inside realised what was going on and opened The Doors.
In the space of a month they'd gone from being very popular to absolute screaming mayhem – this was Beatlemania in all its insanity. That was the night it was decided they'd have to take over the top spot from Orbison.
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Of course, they weren't there, hadn't even been staying there. So I set off to find them, wandering down Charing Cross Road to Macari's and the music shops, then along Denmark Street to the café where they used to go, and after a while I got lost. I ended up walking down Lower Regent Street and I walked into them completely by luck. They were on their way to the BBC's Paris Studio to do a session.
So that night I went along to the gig with Roy Orbison at the Granada Cinema in Tooting and I was just stunned.
I remember when we pulled up outside the front of the Tooting Granada, there was a huge crowd of fans. The Beatles leapt out of the bus and ran for The Doors, which were supposed to have been left unlocked, but instead they were locked. The fans swarmed over the band and there was a couple of hairy moments, until the people inside realised what was going on and opened The Doors.
In the space of a month they'd gone from being very popular to absolute screaming mayhem – this was Beatlemania in all its insanity. That was the night it was decided they'd have to take over the top spot from Orbison.
(Source : not known)