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MLKBEA_150424_01.JPG: Arrival in the U.S.
MLKBEA_150424_07.JPG: Beatlemania Comes to Washington
The Beatles played a set of 12 songs in a show that lasted about 45 minutes.
* Roll Over Beethoven (Paul McCartney)
* From Me to You (John Lennon)
* I Saw Her Standing There (Paul McCartney)
* This Boy (John Lennon)
* All My Loving (Paul McCartney)
* I Wanna Be Your Man (Ringo Starr)
* Please, Please Me (John Lennon)
* Till There Was You (Paul McCartney)
* She Loves You (John Lennon)
* I Want to Hold Your Hand (John Lennon)
* Twist and Shout (John Lennon)
* Long Tall Sally (Paul McCartney)
MLKBEA_150424_15.JPG: Uline Arena at the time of its openings in 1941
MLKBEA_150424_18.JPG: Inside the Coliseum.
The stage in the middle of the Coliseum was actually a boxing ring surrounded by the audience on all sides. Ringo's drums had to be turned every three songs to face a different section of the audience. To get to the stage, the band had to be escorted down an aisle by police.
MLKBEA_150424_23.JPG: At the British Embassy
MLKBEA_150424_30.JPG: Celebrating 50 Years of Beatlemania in the U.S.
On Tour
MLKBEA_150424_36.JPG: New York, Feb. 7, 1964 -- Garb [sic] that Beatle -- With fans closing in, a member of the British singing group The Beatles, second from left, struggles for police protection as he tries to enter is New York hotel today. A crowd of several hundred screaming fans welcomes the group at the hotel after an estimated 5,000 turned up at Kennedy Airport to shout a tumultuous greeting to the United States. The Beatles, a quartet, will make a series of appearances in this country. One Beatle described the welcome as like none they'd ever seen, "It's fantastic."
MLKBEA_150424_40.JPG: New York, Feb. 8, 1964 -- A Beatle shoulders a young man -- Three members of the Beatles are shown with a young fan, 5-year old Debbie Fyall of London, England, who is on the shoulders of John Lennon during a visit to New York's Central Park today. From left are Paul McCartney, Lennon and Ringo Starr. A fourth member of the visiting British singing group, George Harrison, was confined to his hotel with a bad cold. Debbie's dad, Andrew Fyall, is a New York correspondent of the London Express.
MLKBEA_150424_43.JPG: Dallas, Dept. 18, 1964 -- Two members of the Beatle quartet are swallowed up by surging fans at their arrival in Dallas last night. Police officers are hard pressed to keep wild fans from their idols. The British Beatles are in Dallas for a concert tonight that winds up a nationwide tour of the United States.
MLKBEA_150424_47.JPG: New York, Feb. 7, 1964 -- Make way for the Beatles -- Police lean into the job for holding back throng of young fans intent of mobbing the British singing group The Beatles as they arrive at their New York hotel today. The screaming crowd was kept behind barricades as the quartet drove up from Kennedy Airport where they had arrived from England earlier. An estimated 5,000 fans cheered their landing at the airport for a series of appearances in the U.S.
MLKBEA_150424_50.JPG: New York -- The Beatles perform in New York in September of 1964
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