The young girls went for cute and cuddly. It was a gender divide, just as Cliff Richard v Elvis had been a gender divide. The boys had already switched allegiance to The Rolling Stones … their first album was April 1964. At teen parties (I was just seventeen, you know what I mean?) the girls were clamouring to play The Beatles. Perhaps it was the normal rock snob reaction when your favourites become too popular. That transition from Yeah, Yeah, Yeah to No, No, No was too predictable. Something was happening between me and The Beatles by 1964. I actively disliked Can’t Buy Me Love and I still skip it on compilations. I got the others later, certainly by 1971. From Rubber Soul on, I bought every album as it was released. I didn’t buy A Hard Day’s Night, nor Beatles For Sale nor Help albums on release, though I bought the Hard Days Night EP (Part One). I bought every single up to Can’t Buy Me Love and the Long Tall Sally EP. I queued overnight to see them at the Winter Gardens in November 1963, and I didn’t hear a thing (and the ticket cost me 62p!), nor in 1964, but the screaming on that 1963 show is used on The Byrds So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star. It comes from a TV news piece. The cover picture of With The Beatles was taken at the Palace Court Hotel, next to the Gaumont. The first time they did two shows a night for a week at The Gaumont cinema in the summer of 1963 and you could actually hear them. I played the Please Please Me album till it wore out, and then did the same with With The Beatles. I saw them three times in Bournemouth. I was won over totally the first time I saw The Beatles perform Love Me Do on TV. Perhaps cultural phenomenon is as good a description as ‘film.’ It has the longest list of “trivia” on Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) that I have ever seen. I was reluctant to do it because so much has been written on the film, that it’s impossible to have an overview (or new view) of comments. I’ve reviewed so many Swinging London 60s films that I have to excuse leaving the best-known one so late. Release date: July 1964 UK August 1964 USA Uncredited brief appearances include Isla Blair, Patti Boyd, Brian Epstein, Mal Evans, Phil Collins, Susan Hampshire, Linda Lewis, Derek Nimmo, Charlotte Rampling.
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