Beatles or Bust!

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Been going through some old pictures and thought I would share. This was when the Beatles came to New Orleans and we hired a bus to go see them. What year??? I don't remember. Isn't this a hoot?

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The year was 1964. Found this...HERE

<b>On August 5 1964, The Beatles had been known to America for less than a year but had already hit #1 on the Hot 100 five times! Beatlemania was fully entrenched in U.S. popular culture. Lots of familiar PAMS jingles on this aircheck, including a few from the Beatles package — multiple contests — and WTIX and Skip Wilkerson are offering a chance to win tickets for the upcoming Beatles concert in New Orleans on September 16. </b>
 
wow that is SO cool!

I love the whole crazy Beatlemania thing that went on in the 60s and am so sad I missed it.

I've gone en-masse to see Paul McCartney with a crowd of beatle mad people before, but there's never been more than about 15 of us, and we've always used the train. Us marching aboard in matching shirts and decorating the interior of the carriage with Beatle pictures and playing our music can't even begin to compare with your bus, that is really honestly just so fabulous!!!

<envy, worship and adore> :)

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
i found this on the net...could it have been 1964 at City park?

So much of the Beatles phenomenon -- known to the pre-MTV generation as Beatlemania -- has been chronicled from the moment John, Paul, George and Ringo set foot on American soil. But there hasn't been as much discussed about the events that led to this most famous of British invasions, one that altered the course of rock 'n' roll and pop music forever. Local author and Beatles historian Bruce Spizer tackles that very subject in the lavish coffee-table book, The Beatles Are Coming! -- The Birth of Beatlemania in America (498 Productions).

(Funny timing, considering Mikko and Greg DiLeo have been honoring the band's 1964 appearance at City Park on Mondays at True Brew Theater).

One of the lesser-known issues surrounding the Beatles' tour that Spizer addresses, for example, is the fact that Capitol Records turned down the group on four different occasions. With a forward by Walter Cronkite, the book features 246 pages and is flooded with more than 450 images (color and black-and-white). Free admission. -- Simmons


sara x
 
Thought I better share my crazed Beatle chasing days too.

I was in a crowd of 10 girls (plus other friends who came and went) known as the LIPA Scruffs as we used to hang outside Paul McCartney's fame school LIPA with the same devotion as the Apple Scuffs used to hang outside Apple in the late 60s.

We eventually acquired a uniform of black shirts with white lettering... which was really not my scene as I wanted to be in my groovy smart 60s gear... so my pictures from that time are stored away somewhere where I don't have to look at them, and the only ones I have easy access to are some I scanned out of books and magazines... thankfully I have quite a few of these, as my crowd was notorious at the time... and embarrassingly appeared on the national news and on the front page of the Telegraph when a few of us were skipping work and school to attend something!

early arrivals from our group setting up camp outside the Royal Albert Hall... from the book comemorating Paul McCartney's Standing Stone premiere:
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early arrivals setting up camp again (I always used to be first there at about 6am with a friend or two cos I was a deep Beatlemania sufferor at the time) but this time outside Buckingham Palace ready for Paul's knighthood... from Paul's offical fanclub magazine:
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Paul arriving at Buckingham Palace... from the book about Paul's knighthood:
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My friend Dawn on the left in that last photo wearing the huge hat and shades had rung in sick to work that day and was trying to be incognito. LOL!

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
Senti, that is so neat. You guys really were serious. I am so impressed with you being in the book and everything. Gosh!! I got excited all over again when I found that picture today. Went in search of the envelope I had saved with a blade of grass Ringo stepped on but cannot find it. Will have to tear the whole house apart. (Ran out on the football field at the stadium they appeared at and was very nicely pushed back over the fence.) I might even have my ticket stub! Got to find that box of stuff.

Sara, thanks for that info. I think I was looking on a site by the same author but mine came up that the site was down because of Katrina.

Maybe you can guess who I am. Found this 1970's picture of my first wedding in my going away outfit. Yes, it was brown and 70's! Look at the gloves!! LOL

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Hint: I'm in the middle in the bus picture.
 
Great pics Linda & Senti!!! Thanks so much for sharing your stories...I love stuff like this!!

Linda - Is that you under the "A"??

I wish I had pics of myself camping out before the KISS concert in the 70's! I do have a photo of my 3 best friends & I dressed up as KISS for a school "Gong Show"...but I don't think the world is quite ready for those!!
 
Bonnie, we have GOT to see those pics! If I showed mine, you have to show yours.

No, that is not me under the "A." Guess again.
 
That's you under the 'L'!!

L:USING:VE IT!

Ditto the white gloves photo - what a classic American beauty you were, and are still I'm sure :)

:bouncy:

Carolyn
 
Wow, that truly is 60s Beatlemania, a piece of grass that Ringo stepped on. Hope you can find it! My versions aren't quite so "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" perfect (I *love* that film, it's hilarious, especially the guy with the whole piece of turf that Ringo stepped on that he keeps wrapped in tin foil! Especially love the bit when the girl attacks the guitars too... though las time I watched it my bubble was burst slightly by the guy I was leaning on at the time telling me they were the wrong guitar models... he's been a tribute Beatle for a while so he knows his stuff, LOL!).

I have a piece of string from a balloon Paul McCartney was holding and a silk rose I threw at Ringo during a concert of his which hit him on the head (I was mortifed. He's my fave rave and I hit him on the head with something!) and I got back after the gig!

And yeah, I wanna see the KISS photo too!! ...and you don't get the excuse that it's off-topic cos Ringo's two boys used to nick their mum's make-up so they could pretend to be KISS too!

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
Oh, I must confess, I spent my high school years, plus some, as a hopeless Beatlemaniac, with John as my favorite. I was in high school after they broke up, but I had just really discovered them, and my friends and I lived and breathed the Beatles. We made 8mm movies about them, interviewing people and acting out songs poetically as we could. I started a chamber orchestra, calling it the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Orchestra, and we played Beatles music I arranged as if it were Baroque. Actually, I could tell stories for 6 hours, but I won't bore you. The only ex-Beatle concert I could attend was Wings in 1978 in Seattle, where there were 84,000 people. I had to sneak away to go, because my mother would never have let me go, she wouldn't accept even hearing rock music in the house. I wore one of her 1940s navy gabardine jackets with an airforce wings pin, and everyone thought my outfit was pretty cool.

The irony is that my mother surely knew what I was doing. She brought home a t-shirt (as a gift to me) being sold by one of the fellows at her office, which was an officially sanctioned t-shirt with a drawing my John. I turned beet red at knowing she knew, and ran out of the room. I still have that shirt!

Thanks for the reminiscences. Linda...What a beautiful smile!!!! Senti, I've always noticed your interest and kept meaning to say YEAH!!
 
Maggie, what a neat idea on your Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Orchestra and you sneaking off to that concert. You naughty girl..lol. How embarrassing that your Mom knew all the time. We need to see a pic of that shirt!

Carolyn, how did you know? Yes, that is me under the "L". Appropriate, isn't it? I can still remember that little dress. I think it was a tweedy fabric with a bow at the collar. Wonder where all my clothes are? Certainly I didn't give them all away. I definitely would not have if I had known I would be doing this today.

Okay, Bonnie, let's see the Kiss photo!!!
 
This is about the best I've got right now, pulled from my scrapbook from the time:


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and I see it was 1976, not 78.
 
Woo Hoo, the bicentennial year. That is so cool. I have got to find my stub.
 
Linda - at first I thought the "all appropriate" L - but in the pic you didn't look like a blonde!!

Will dig out the KISS photos. Not quite sure where those photo albums are hiding!!

Come to think of it, my kids haven't even seen those. Should be fun!!

Loooooovvveeee old pics of our members - too much fun. Keep em coming!
 
Bonnie, I have had about every hair color imaginable!! LOL
 
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