Beatles History - In 1963, the band played the Rialto Theatre in York

In 1963, the band played the Rialto Theatre in York

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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The Beatles were just beginning to create the buzz which wouldlater turn into full-blown Beatlemania and took to the stage of the Rialtoin Fishergate to a rapturous reception. Mr Hattersley-Colson, who turned 80 yesterday, was 29 at the time and remembers the band as being friendly and polite. He recalls they arrived by a big Austin Princess car, and stopped for a drink at the Edinburgh Arms.

He said: “They were nice young lads, there were no airs and graces with them. They were ordinary Lancashirelads like me. The show was fantastic, it went very well indeed. People who went never forgot it. When they became really famous I thought ‘I had a mug of tea with those lads and a laugh and a joke and a giggle with them’.”

The night saw fans disappointed when Helen Shapiro cancelled her performance due to flu. The Evening Press from February 28, however, told how the Fab Four went down a storm with the crowd.

Our reviewer at the time wrote: “Screams of delight greeted The Beatles – a Liverpool quartet who obliged with the songs they wrote themselves and which have taken them into theHit Parade – Love Me Do and Please Please Me.”York Beatles Appreciation Society Published April 23, 2013