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Fact #52363

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Short story:

The Beatles' third tour of the USA ends at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, USA. There is a near-riot when fans rush the stage.

Full article:

Alf Bicknell (Beatles chauffeur) : They went on the stage, it was about eight foot high, but it got so bad with the crowd. There's a very famous photograph of me running with a buxom young wench between Paul and George, and George was laughing. But what the photograph doesn't show is that this was the one time Paul actually stopped and said, "Look, people are getting hurt." It wasn't just fans, it was policemen being trampled and everything. We had to leave the stage until it calmed down. They made it like an interval.

Out the side of the stage we had a great big caravan, like a mobile home, which they were using as a dressing room. So I went out there, but everybody had disappeared. John, Paul and Richie were all gone. And sitting over on the corner on a settee in the caravan was George playing guitar, and Joan Baez singing Greensleeves, so I go to make myself a drink at the bar.

I was conscious of somebody standing beside me, but I was transfixed by the sight of George and Joan, then this guy touches my arm and says, "Hi, I'm Johnny Cash." I was over the moon. The man in black, one of my great heroes. I felt so foolish that I hadn't recognised him, because I loved so many of his songs.