Fact #52429
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Short story:
The final UK tour by The Beatles ends at the Capitol Cinema, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe, where they are supported by The Moody Blues, The Paramounts, The Marionettes, The Koobas and Beryl Marsden. After the concert, The Beatles piled into their black limousine for the drive back to London where they attended a Christmas party at the Scotch Of St James nightclub.
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Mal Evans (road manager) : A man ran on the stage while John was announcing the group’s next number – Day Tripper – and grappled with the lads.
He was asked to leave and disappeared as quickly as quickly as he came. This sort of thing has happened before and we are able to handle it.
(Source : not known)
Jon Holliday (journalist, South Wales Echo) : I don't remember a great deal about it. My son-in-law didn't go to the concert but he remembers. He said 'what do you remember about it?' and I said 'Well, all I remember is that I wrote down on my diary 'couldn't understand a word' and that was true.
Those girls were there to enjoy themselves, each other and the scream. And it's an excitement! You talk about it for weeks when you got the ticket, you enjoy it, and you talk about it when you go home. It's a great event but it's a not a musical event.
And that is very disarming for a performer. Particularly for two of them, John and Paul who were really interested in music and what they had to say!
There was no point in talking because nobody would have heard a word. As it says in the song 'what would you think if I sang out a tune, would you stand up and walk out on me?' You can't hear anything they're playing and of course the amplification in those days was so brutal.
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He was asked to leave and disappeared as quickly as quickly as he came. This sort of thing has happened before and we are able to handle it.
(Source : not known)
Jon Holliday (journalist, South Wales Echo) : I don't remember a great deal about it. My son-in-law didn't go to the concert but he remembers. He said 'what do you remember about it?' and I said 'Well, all I remember is that I wrote down on my diary 'couldn't understand a word' and that was true.
Those girls were there to enjoy themselves, each other and the scream. And it's an excitement! You talk about it for weeks when you got the ticket, you enjoy it, and you talk about it when you go home. It's a great event but it's a not a musical event.
And that is very disarming for a performer. Particularly for two of them, John and Paul who were really interested in music and what they had to say!
There was no point in talking because nobody would have heard a word. As it says in the song 'what would you think if I sang out a tune, would you stand up and walk out on me?' You can't hear anything they're playing and of course the amplification in those days was so brutal.