saki <saki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> While researching the question Pete had about Ed Sullivan in England,
> I decided to revisit another assumption. Some time ago I'd searched
> through the New York Times for the first mention of the Fabs, which I
> found in the newspaper for 4 Nov 1963, an apparently truncated AP or
> UPI story about fans rioting over an English pop group called the
> Beatles.
>
> Bruce Spizer cites this as the first as well in his book "The Beatles
> Are Coming!".
>
> But it turns out that the earliest cite in U.S. newspapers (so far
> known) occurred three weeks before this on 14 Oct 1963, all in:
>
> El Paso Herald Post, El Paso TX
> Eureka Humboldt Standard, Eureka CA
> Long Beach Press Telegram, Long Beach CA
> Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson AZ
> Oakland Tribune, Oakland CA
> Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden UT
>
> and probably a few other regional papers that haven't yet been
> digitized.
>
> All carry the same two-paragraph UPI story (truncated to one paragraph
> in two cases). Here's an example from the Tucson Daily Citizen:
>
> http://www.sakionline.net/uploads/tucsondailycitizen14oct1963.jpg
>
> But Canada gets the award for being most prescient of all. The
> earliest known North American coverage was the Winnipeg Free Press,
> Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 28 Sept 1963, via the Times of London:
>
> http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/fab/winnipegfp28sept1963.jpg
>
> This is a chatty article by Derek Jewell who mentions other Merseyside
> groups of the day and provides some analysis of the Beatles' fame. It
> also sounds to me (from his prose) as if he'd just seen the
> do***entary "The Mersey Sound".
>
> ----
> saki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
as you know, The Beatles played the London Palladium -ON- 14
October, 1963, so that article, if it's describing the actual
performance, couldn't appear in US newspapers until the 15th. The
Beatles did however, have a camera rehearsal the day before, and were
practically trapped inside the Palladium. As a matter of fact, the
description of the police getting them through the girls into a waiting
car in this article is very similar to the description of them getting
out of the camera rehearsal.
My guess is the article was written by someone who didn't know much
about the group, and either didn't know or forgot it was a rehearsal.
-Edvado
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