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The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the USA at The Coliseum, Washington, DC, headlining over Tommy Roe, The Righteous Brothers, Jay And The Americans and The Caravelles. For the first time, they are pelted with jelly beans. In the evening they attend a party at the British Embassy. US President Johnson tells former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, "I like your advance party but they need a haircut."Full article:
John Lennon [The Beatles] : Cliff (Richard) went to America and died. He was fourteenth on the bill with Frankie Avalon. We didn't think we stood a chance.
Murray Kaufman (New York DJ, Murray The K] : We arrived at Union Station and over 10,000 kids were there. They broke through the barricades and came rushing out. We were crushed against the locomotive of the train, and I said to myself, 'I'm going to die with four kids with long haircuts from Liverpool.' George, who was right next to me, turned and said, with a big, silly grin on his face, 'Isn't it fun?' I'm dying and he says 'Isn't it fun?'
We did the show at the Washington Coliseum with The Righteous Brothers, Jay And The Americans and Tommy Roe. I broadcast my entire show from The Beatles' dressing room.
Bill Medley (Righteous Brothers) : Singing before The Beatles for 35 minutes, all we heard were young girls yelling, 'We want The Beatles.' It was real difficult. It just wasn't fair. So we left the tour about three-quarters of the way through.
Ringo Starr : That first Washington crowd was 20,000. We'd only been used to 2,000 at home.
Louise Harrison : I was sitting next to Cynthia and we were both kind of sitting there with goosebumps, listening to the tremendous amount of vibrations that were in the theatre. For she and I, sitting together, to think that it's our guys that this is all for was wonderful. I had tears running down my face because it was so overwhelming.
George Harrison : Some journalist had dug up an old quote of John's that I was fond of jelly babies and had written about it in his column. That night we were absolutely pelted by the fuckin' things
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Murray Kaufman (New York DJ, Murray The K] : We arrived at Union Station and over 10,000 kids were there. They broke through the barricades and came rushing out. We were crushed against the locomotive of the train, and I said to myself, 'I'm going to die with four kids with long haircuts from Liverpool.' George, who was right next to me, turned and said, with a big, silly grin on his face, 'Isn't it fun?' I'm dying and he says 'Isn't it fun?'
We did the show at the Washington Coliseum with The Righteous Brothers, Jay And The Americans and Tommy Roe. I broadcast my entire show from The Beatles' dressing room.
Bill Medley (Righteous Brothers) : Singing before The Beatles for 35 minutes, all we heard were young girls yelling, 'We want The Beatles.' It was real difficult. It just wasn't fair. So we left the tour about three-quarters of the way through.
Ringo Starr : That first Washington crowd was 20,000. We'd only been used to 2,000 at home.
Louise Harrison : I was sitting next to Cynthia and we were both kind of sitting there with goosebumps, listening to the tremendous amount of vibrations that were in the theatre. For she and I, sitting together, to think that it's our guys that this is all for was wonderful. I had tears running down my face because it was so overwhelming.
George Harrison : Some journalist had dug up an old quote of John's that I was fond of jelly babies and had written about it in his column. That night we were absolutely pelted by the fuckin' things