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The Beatles play at The Globe, Stockton-On-Tees, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Brook Brothers, The Vernons Girls, The Kestrels and Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers.Full article:
Tony Bramwell (Beatles' aide) : This was the day President Kennedy was shot, and we heard about it just as The Beatles were about to go on stage, which was a downer for everybody.
Lynne Nicholson (audience) : My father came home one night in November with two tickets for the concert on the 22nd, I remember the colour, a deep yellow and the price 10s 6d, I think for row 11 or 12. At that time we were living in Roman Road Linthorpe, with great excitement and the tickets in my hand I ran to my best friend (and she still is) Ann Bibby's house at the top of Devonshire Road, we were both at Whinney Banks secondary Modern 2nd year and when news got out we were the envy of the school.
Ian Wright (photographer) : I was with The Beatles on November 22nd, 1963. They were top of the bill by then. Four number one hits. On November 22nd the L.P. "With The Beatles" had world record pre-sales of 300,000. It was released that day, the day Kennedy was shot.
Epstein, when they had those sort of little milestones in their career, would allow them to bring their girlfriends and their mums and dads, and Epstein and (Neil) Aspinall and all the rest of the gang would all turn up. Then after the second show, they would all go out to a lovely whoop-de-do dinner to celebrate. But they didn't that night because given the time difference between Dallas and Stockton-On-Tees, The Globe Theatre, they were actually on stage at the time Kennedy was shot and they more or less finished by the time he died in the hospital at one o'clock Dallas time. I was the only photographer there that night. None of the pictures from that night were ever published because Kennedy took precedent. Nobody was remotely interested in The Beatles. I
'd seen them all throughout the afternoon and I'd photographed them backstage with the girlfriends and Epstein and Aspinall and Mal Evans.
Then I photographed them onstage. Then I think it was Phil Burrows or Roger Cook or Roger Greenaway from The Kestrels, they were one of the first ones that had heard the news that Kennedy had been assassinated. The whole atmosphere just changed. And this was right between the two shows. Soon as I heard that, I was on my bike and I was away. I went straight back to the office because I thought if this is important, maybe they'll put these pictures in and this would be part of the news of that. Harry Evans wasn't interested. He just didn't want to know about The Beatles, even though he was a big Beatles fan himself. He just had no interest in them at all. So they never got published.
(Source : interview by Gary James at http://www.classicbands.com/IanWrightInterview.html)
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Lynne Nicholson (audience) : My father came home one night in November with two tickets for the concert on the 22nd, I remember the colour, a deep yellow and the price 10s 6d, I think for row 11 or 12. At that time we were living in Roman Road Linthorpe, with great excitement and the tickets in my hand I ran to my best friend (and she still is) Ann Bibby's house at the top of Devonshire Road, we were both at Whinney Banks secondary Modern 2nd year and when news got out we were the envy of the school.
Ian Wright (photographer) : I was with The Beatles on November 22nd, 1963. They were top of the bill by then. Four number one hits. On November 22nd the L.P. "With The Beatles" had world record pre-sales of 300,000. It was released that day, the day Kennedy was shot.
Epstein, when they had those sort of little milestones in their career, would allow them to bring their girlfriends and their mums and dads, and Epstein and (Neil) Aspinall and all the rest of the gang would all turn up. Then after the second show, they would all go out to a lovely whoop-de-do dinner to celebrate. But they didn't that night because given the time difference between Dallas and Stockton-On-Tees, The Globe Theatre, they were actually on stage at the time Kennedy was shot and they more or less finished by the time he died in the hospital at one o'clock Dallas time. I was the only photographer there that night. None of the pictures from that night were ever published because Kennedy took precedent. Nobody was remotely interested in The Beatles. I
'd seen them all throughout the afternoon and I'd photographed them backstage with the girlfriends and Epstein and Aspinall and Mal Evans.
Then I photographed them onstage. Then I think it was Phil Burrows or Roger Cook or Roger Greenaway from The Kestrels, they were one of the first ones that had heard the news that Kennedy had been assassinated. The whole atmosphere just changed. And this was right between the two shows. Soon as I heard that, I was on my bike and I was away. I went straight back to the office because I thought if this is important, maybe they'll put these pictures in and this would be part of the news of that. Harry Evans wasn't interested. He just didn't want to know about The Beatles, even though he was a big Beatles fan himself. He just had no interest in them at all. So they never got published.
(Source : interview by Gary James at http://www.classicbands.com/IanWrightInterview.html)