The Beatles in Australia

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This is amazing, you forget how big The Beatles were.
Were any of your parents there?

On this day: June 12th 1964, The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia and were greeted by an estimated 250,000 fans, (the biggest welcome the band would ever receive), who lined the ten mile route from the airport to the city centre. The group gave their first four shows in Australia at the Centennial Hall, Adelaide over two nights, playing: I Saw Her Standing There, I Want To Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, She Loves You, Till There Was You, Roll Over Beethoven, Can't Buy Me Love, This Boy, Long Tall Sally and Twist And Shout. Temporary member Jimmy Nicol was standing in for Ringo on drums who was recovering from having his tonsils removed.

From www.thisdayinmusic.com
 

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My uncle and mother saw them at festival hall in Brisbane which makes me exceedingly jealous especially as now I'm a huge fan and they aren't.
 

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Never has such an ordinary band has had a rabid fanbase.
Ordinary band? Don't be silly. :rolleyes:

To the OP, I was there outside the Adelaide Town Hall to see the Beatles. Australia was starved at that time of overseas artists and a lot of people were there out of curiosity. I was 9 at the time.

I was lucky enough to find a book years later about the Beatles in Australia where they took a photo of the crowd outside the Town Hall, and I found myself in the photo.

Adelaide business man Ken Brodziak was fortunate to have signed the Beatles to tour when they were pretty much only a British band who'd been to Germany, but by the time they arrived in Australia they had achieved international fame.

Yes, Ringo was absent and Jimmy Nicol took his place behind the drums. After leaving Adelaide they headed to Melbourne to meet up with Ringo. The thing I recall the most was Jimmy coming into Adelaide with 250,000 people there to greet him, and a couple of days later he was photographed sitting on his own at the airport waiting for a flight back to England.
 
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