The screams became a relentless chant of “We Want The Beatles”
It was 60 years ago today. November 7th, 1963, was the day that The Beatles brought their band to play – in a cinema in Dublin.
But an unsuspecting Middle Abbey Street was quiet at about 4.30 in the afternoon as four Liverpudlians – the Fab Four in person – slipped into the deserted foyer of the Adelphi. A few squeals from the street heralded their arrival: the girls outside had been waiting at the wrong door.
As we watched them troop up the broad stairs to the mezzanine floor, sharply dressed and coiffed as few others of their age in Dublin were, I sensed that we were about to meet something new in the world of entertainment, but never imagined how much they would shake things up. Nobody did. I didn’t get to ask George Harrison anything – he had slipped away to meet his Dublin aunt and cousins.
The Beatles, already a polished act from the years when three of them had played in Hamburg, ran through a repertoire that included songs by other artistes as well as their own. Then came their three hits, culminating in “She Loves You” . By the time the last “yeah, yeah, yeah” had faded, they had reduced their audience to a damp, perspiring, deliriously happy mass of humanity.
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