Beatles - Live In Adelaide 1964

The massive crowd trying to see the Beatles in Adelaide This comes from the TV soundtrack of the Adelaide leg of the Australian tour. Here, the Beatles came face to face with the biggest crowd of fans in their career, over 300,000 people crammed the street outside their hotel. Jimmie Nicol subs on drums for Ringo.
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Originally they were going to miss Adelaide however DJ Bob Francis (now a shock jock) saw fit to arrange a little bit of a detour from their Eastern Australian gigs. Francis recalls in an interview at the Australian Broacasting Commision.

You know, in 1964 I was working as a disc jockey, I had a bit more hair in those days, and we had some fabulous news – The Beatles were coming to Australia. The bad news is they weren't coming to Adelaide and I had to get a little help from my friends. And we worked out that through the power of radio, we could change the course of history. The excitement of The Beatles was just amazing. They had five number one hits in the Top 40 chart. It had never been known before. And so when we had the information that The Beatles weren't coming to South Australia, that really got me mad. And I thought, is it worthwhile asking on air why don't we get some signatures together. Get some signatures together? We got 80,000 signatures in about three weeks, which was just marvellous. The telegram came back within a couple of days saying, "Beatles now coming to Adelaide." And that was just fabulous news. I'd never seen it happen before. People actually camped from the Friday night after work and the Monday morning the tickets were going to go on sale.

We set up a studio on the terrace to be able to have music playing out of the trees in speakers. Ah, people were bopping all over the place. It was just such a – a fantastic atmosphere. And the lovely part was everybody behaved themselves. There was no booze, it was just a different era, a different time.

Fabulous time. Well, the stage was set. 11 June 1964, they said, "Bob, would you like to go to Sydney?" And I said, "Yes, sir." Off to Sydney, on a Fokker Friendship, to meet The Beatles. (Laughs) Just the greatest thing in my world had happened on that day.

1 - I Saw Her Standing There
2 - I Want To Hold Your hand
3 - All My Loving
4 - She Loves You
5 - Till There Was You
6 - Roll Over Beethoven
7 - Can't Buy Me Love
8 - This Boy
9 - Twist And Shout
10 - Long Tall Sally

!2 June 1964