Comments | selenak: Meanwhile in 1965...

selenak

Meanwhile in 1965...

Sep 30, 2010 18:34

In the spirit of plus ca change, I offer a YouTube clip which contains the highlight of the Beatles' 1965 Shea Stadium concert as well as short interviews with fans. At one point, the reporter switches from the interviewing the fangirls to a fanboy and asks him: "Isn't this whole Beatles thing very silly and strictly for girls?" "No," quoth the ( Read more... )

brian epstein, beatles, shea stadium

Comments 18

amenirdis September 30 2010, 17:45:02 UTC

Someone seriously needs to do a Beatles Haunted Summer book....

selenak September 30 2010, 22:10:31 UTC

Aren't you supposed to be the good twin and not lead people into temptation?

amenirdis October 1 2010, 12:08:15 UTC

I think leading you into this one would count as a public service!

wondygal September 30 2010, 18:05:22 UTC

Heh, this week on Mad Men, which is set in 65, a character got his ten-year old tickets to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium, to which she reacted thusly:

selenak September 30 2010, 20:26:49 UTC

LOL. That was a perfect Beatlemania scream, that was. Talented little actress.

airie_fairy September 30 2010, 23:18:29 UTC

Omg that is adorable. XD

wondygal October 1 2010, 02:26:55 UTC

It's Sally Draper! Everything she does is either adorable or heartbreaking.

mamculuna September 30 2010, 18:11:24 UTC

I might be wrong, but I believe that Don Draper had tickets to take his daughter Sally to that concert (in most recent Mad Men. Wish I'd been there, but I did get to see the Beatles on their first Ed Sullivan appearance.

ETA: Duh, should read other comments first! At least I wasn't wrong.

selenak September 30 2010, 20:31:16 UTC

No indeed, and I just watched the clip. That was adorable.

Also: re: first Ed Sullivan appearance - I think that's out on dvd now, but I haven't snagged it yet. (I did watch excerpts on earlier documentaries, though.) What's amazing is that Brian Epstein got them booked for Ed Sullivan as a star act before "I Want To Hold Your Hand" made it to No.1. in the US (by the time they arrived there, it was, but not when Epstein made the deal with Ed Sullivan). Was this the first time you saw them, or did you see the odd newsclip before?

mamculuna September 30 2010, 20:45:15 UTC

I think it was the first time I'd seen them (and I was a lot older than Sally! I was in grad school by then). I'd heard about them, but I remember being amazed at how skinny they looked (the mod suits, of course, made them seem that way). Years later, McCartney came to do a concert in our little city, but we couldn't get tickets. We danced in the streets outside the football stadium where he was playing.

In between, they were the soundtrack to a lot of changes in my life...

ponygirl2000 September 30 2010, 19:08:51 UTC

No video monitors, no place to dance, all that tempting open space in front of the stage - no wonder our concert-going ancestors screamed.

selenak September 30 2010, 20:27:39 UTC

No kidding. Ah well, concert organizers were still learning.

lilacsigil October 1 2010, 02:23:41 UTC

Yep! Girls hate musicianship and song-writing! I don't think I can be squeeful about that fan disassociating himself and his heroes from "girls".

selenak October 1 2010, 04:48:55 UTC

I don't think he meant to imply that, I took it as him explaining why the enthusiam isn't silly, as the reporter charged.