Tuesday 11 February
Washington Coliseum, Third and M St North East,
Washington DC, USA
Early on this day the Beatles travelled by train from New York to Washington DC, and at 8.31 stepped on stage at the 8092-seat Coliseum to give their first concert in North America. For the next half-hour a manic audiences was treated to ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘From Me To You’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘Please Please Me’, ‘Till There Was You’, ‘She Loves You’, I Want To Hold Your Hand’, ‘Twist And Shout’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’.
With Brian Epstein’s concent, the performance was shot by CBS and shown by National General Corporation - together with unrelated footage of the Beach Boys and Lesley Gore - in cinemas across the USA as a closed-circuit telecast on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March, two matinee screenings each day. Though ‘Long Tall Sally’ was omitted at editing stage, rarely did concert footage of the Beatles capture the excitement so evidently as this, or so humorously highlight the crude stage setting with which the Beatles were content to contend. The film stars with the Beatles having made their entrance but Ringo attempting to re-position his drum kit. George switched his microphone at the end of the first verse of the opening number because it wasn’t working, only to find a faulty replacement. After the third song, all the Beatles turned 180 degrees - Mal Evans revolving Ringo’s kit – in order to face the audience which had been behind them; this exercise was then repeated at the end of the ninth, they all turned again, 45 degrees this time, to face the side audience.
Reference:The Complete BEATLES CHRONICLE / written by Mark Lewisohn [hamlyn] quoted P146
Washington Coliseum, Third and M St North East,
Washington DC, USA
Early on this day the Beatles travelled by train from New York to Washington DC, and at 8.31 stepped on stage at the 8092-seat Coliseum to give their first concert in North America. For the next half-hour a manic audiences was treated to ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘From Me To You’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘Please Please Me’, ‘Till There Was You’, ‘She Loves You’, I Want To Hold Your Hand’, ‘Twist And Shout’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’.
With Brian Epstein’s concent, the performance was shot by CBS and shown by National General Corporation - together with unrelated footage of the Beach Boys and Lesley Gore - in cinemas across the USA as a closed-circuit telecast on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March, two matinee screenings each day. Though ‘Long Tall Sally’ was omitted at editing stage, rarely did concert footage of the Beatles capture the excitement so evidently as this, or so humorously highlight the crude stage setting with which the Beatles were content to contend. The film stars with the Beatles having made their entrance but Ringo attempting to re-position his drum kit. George switched his microphone at the end of the first verse of the opening number because it wasn’t working, only to find a faulty replacement. After the third song, all the Beatles turned 180 degrees - Mal Evans revolving Ringo’s kit – in order to face the audience which had been behind them; this exercise was then repeated at the end of the ninth, they all turned again, 45 degrees this time, to face the side audience.
Reference:The Complete BEATLES CHRONICLE / written by Mark Lewisohn [hamlyn] quoted P146
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