Recently my friend Lee made a post on his blog about
"the first concert he attended". Apparently it is something that is going around. For me, I was quite lucky in that before all the great bands I saw in my college days, before the weekly appearances of Joe Cocker at the local pub while I was at school, I got to see The Beatles in concert in Bournemouth. It was in 1963 (and OK I would have been 12, if you really need to know) and it was the peak of the "Beatlemania" phenomenon in the UK. All I remember is that while you could just about hear the band, the loudest thing was the screaming of the girls in the audience. I haven't been in such a situation since.
Just out of interest I decided to Google "Bournemouth and The Beatles" and lo and behold there is a
U Tube video of the event. Apparently the video is courtesy of the US News media who were examining this strange phenomenon.
As an additional piece of related trivia, during their visit to Bournemouth, The Beatles were photographed and one of those photos became the cover of the "With The Beatles" album. One of my favorite early Beatles albums.
