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Highly recommended to anyone interested in the Beatles - what amazed me when I watched it, was how good they were live. Remarkably in tune/time given the lack of monitors.
Guitar tunings were a bit funky but vocals were amazing
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Edit: Great little beat combo. Great footage of "When I saw her standing there" with a mini rave up after George's guitar solo - properly exciting.
Would have liked more complete song clips though, and I'm not sure the "live" footage always matched up with the audio. Also no impression of how long the shows on their early tours actually were, I seem to recall they were pretty short gigs.
This gives us an impression of not just how short each gig must have been, but also how simple their set-up must have been, and also how many gigs they must have got through - Instead of playing a larger venue in Brum, they play lots of little gigs around the area. Crazy, really, by today's standards, but my God, imagine seeing the Beatles at such close range?!
Google says it was the Plaza in Old Hill: nice story about Denny Laine being in the support act The Diplomats and Macca complimenting him on playing Take Five, saying Ringo couldn't have done it.
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I can heartily recommend Mark Lewisohn's book The Beatles : All these Years : Volume 1
It's a painstakingly researched work on the early years, Volume 2 is out soon
& even though i'm not into guys (lovely as they are for friends) i can totally see why teenage girls wet themselves with lust for the whole scene; four super-hot boys in leather, sweaty little club, amphets & shots, drums pounding & bass shaking your insides.
sex is what the best old school rock & roll is about. music just a conduit. in repressed times (1950s cultural mores & fear of pregnancy) kids had to find a time & a place to let it all out. & it always has to come out.
maybe i'm romanticising it but i'd like to imagine it was so.