The Beatles - 1964 Australian Tour Highlights Reel

It was 50 years ago that The Beatles made their one and only tour of Australia. The Beatles touched down in Sydney on June 11, 1964 and for an amazing 13 days they captivated the nation.
Hundreds of thousands lined the streets everywhere, Beatlemania was more intense here than anywhere else in the world. It was a time of massive musical and cultural change and a time for teenagers to challenge and defy authority.
Over 300,000 people turned out in Adelaide - it was the biggest crowd anywhere in the world, anytime! The Beatles performed 20 shows across Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane leaving in their wake a trail of euphoric, captivated youth. Australia was never the same following The Beatles 1964 tour. This montage captures the highlights of their tour and the euphoria that followed.
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[@roydidlock1867]

At a press conference after their arrival, John Lennon was asked by a reporter, "John, what did you expect to find in Australia"? ,to which Lennon replied- "Australians!".

[@iammrbeat]

Such a John Lennon response.

[@RodrigoRaez]

The best answer. Hahaha!

[@htumai8253]

😀😀

[@FigmentSALabel]

Yes, that's in this video...

[@jessie9465]

Thank you, I had to watch it like five times and still could not understand anything except for 'Australians'.

[@colinpumpernickel2605]

Without any hype 300, 000 fans turned out in Adelaide. There is no other band in the world that has ever deserved such adulation. The kids were smart back then. They recognised a musical phenomenon which we will never experience again.

[@dumb2389]

Elvis

[@chocosheepart3328]

@@dumb2389Hello is it me your looking for

[@martintyrola4518]

@@dumb2389Presley was a solo act, but he’ up there for sure

[@Raider577]

They were no smarter than kids now. The biggest Beatles crowd in the world only in Australia, 300, 000 didn't turn up elsewhere in the world. Besides those fans only liked the Beatles when they were doing 3 minute catchy simple pop songs. As the Beatles progressed into more sophsticated writing half of those kids wouldn't be interested.

[@pavarego1047]

@@Raider577 You should remember that the fans grew just like the fab four. The kids that were 13 in 1963 were 16 in 1966 and I bet most of them loved an album like Revolver much more than their early work.

[@tylercass2584]

Paul had his 22nd birthday, during the Australian tour. George was 21, and John and Ringo were 23 years old. There’s a supernatural element to the manner in which the global population, literally, idolised these 4 very young men, like gods.

[@karaamundson3964]

I remember being that age. I wasn't doing a thing in life except work and drinking lattés.

[@karaamundson3964]

...also, my favorite tune from this time is "You Can't Do That."

[@tylercass2584]

@@karaamundson3964: And you turned out to be a bit of alright, too, Kara. 😇😇

[@davidmouzayek3764]

300000 people showed up in Adelaide, that’s the entire city man

[@nthdegree1269]

Lol, also the first Ed Sullivan show had a US audience of 73 million! The Our World broadcast, had like 400 Million people tune in, Bealtes performed 1 song.

[@davidmouzayek3764]

Nth Degree wow that’s some insane stats!

[@thedrspod]

@@nthdegree1269 thats 3 times more people than ALL of Australia

[@anyaaa2801]

DAMN

[@pietroaligischiavi6951]

The greatest Band ever!! I saw the Beatles in Milano (Italy) on their second show. June 23, 1965!!!!!!! Still I love them!!!!

[@nicolecress5316]

cool

[@tannella]

+Nicole Cress amazing

[@nicolecress5316]

truly

[@klinsmeier]

you are lucky!

[@pietroaligischiavi6951]

Thank you, I'm near to 68...and still in business....as a guitar player.Thanks.

[@brucelamberton8819]

Years ago I had an older friend who told me his tale of seeing the Beatles in concert in Brisbane at Festival Hall (long demolished). He had saved his pocket money to buy a ticket - along with some school friends - even though his parents banned him from going. On the night of the concert he climbed out his bedroom window and caught a bus to town. When the show started he said you couldn't hear a single note they were playing because everyone was screaming; he then realised he was screaming too, even though he couldn't explain why! He got into quite a bit of trouble from his parents when he got home, but said it was one of the best days of his life. Whenever he told this story his eye would always shine and a smile would light up his face, even decades later. BTW when he left school he got a job in the music industry, so I guess the Beatles changed his life.

[@trackdusty]

Yeah, mass hysteria. Such BS.

[@stuartwilliams7912]

Great story.

[@daffyslooney2867]

It was a special time in is life-personally I'm glad he decided to take the opportunity to go and enjoy the moment!

[@SquareNoggin]

Energy and enthusiasm from a large crowd can be great stuff at a concert. Even the oppressive wall of sound from a crowd erupting can be exhilirating - at the right moments. Singing along, so that you have a band leading hundreds or thousands of people in a big huge belting crowd rendition version of their hits - awesome. Losing your shit with excitment to the point that you climb up on stage and leap into a mass of humans that are charged up in a way only live music does for people, getting carried around in an ebb and flow that moves with the music - lots of fun. Feeling the ground rumble beneath you as a sea of people dance or stomp in beat together to a thumping great song - awe inspiring and sometimes even kind of spiritual. Leaping into the flurry of chaos and hype that is a good mosh pit when the band slams into a doozy of a track - exhilirating and endlessly fun. All these things describe the kind of fanatical energy that can make live music with big crowds transcendant and distinctly human in a really awesome way. But drowning in a sea of shrieks from beginning to end, no back and forth with the band at all, barely an acknowledgememt that there is any music...? What's fun about that?

[@SquareNoggin]

See what makes live music so great (IMO) is that usually the fans want to hear the music and are also musically inclined (at least insofar as they enjoy music and will pay to see it), so there ends up being a rhythm to their participation in the music. THAT'S what makes a good stadium/outdoor concert IMO. When the fan enthusiasm acts as an extension of the music, when tons and tons of people USE the fact that there are tons and tons of them to add a layer of depth to the musical experience thar they can't get just listening to the music at home alone. Beatles fans appeared to have done the exact OPPOSITE of that. It's like the crowds shriek when the band comes on stage, "okay fine they're excited," then the music starts and the shrieks intensify... "fair enough they're psyched for the music." But then it just... persists. As if to make damned sure you can't actually make out that there's music going on. "Oh you like Beatles music? Fuck you we like screaming so tough shit you have to listen to us instead. They'll be playing like shit anyways because they can't hear themselves either!" They might as well have used their ticket money to rent a stadium and shriek at a cardboard cut out of the band. Could have gotten it out of their system so the music fans could actually get a chance to see and HEAR live Beatles music, you know? It's just lacking in basic concert etiquette. Boy bands have it rough lol. Their fans make a shitty audience.

[@doncourtreporter]

Biggest crowd anywhere in the world, any time. Wow. Believe me when I say they changed everything. I was 15 when I saw them in Atlanta. They were Fab. They were from another planet, another time.

[@mrog5481]

Woodstock would have been bigger - about half a million at that one.

[@nthdegree1269]

Em Rog, This was larger than Woodstock. This was people, lined from the airport right into the city, with people in trees, that is a lot of people. I mean, think about that. From the airport to the city. Then near the hotel alone, another crowd of at least 350,000, some have estimated higher. Woodstock, was a bunch of bands playing for a long time, this was the Beatles, one band, merely showing up, just people lining the streets and crowd the hotel to see them. Some of the most crazy reaction I have ever seen. I don't think this wil be duplicated. See this short video on their arrival at Adelaide kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGTTcp1-nJKLibc

[@nthdegree1269]

don leavell, this was "the eyewall" of the Hurricane known as beatlemania. Insane.

[@mrog5481]

I think you might be right. Super cool!

[@Jayar74]

Adelaide had a population of about 600,000 at the time - thats HALF the entire city turning out to see them. Insane.

[@spockboy]

Imagine looking at 300,000 people (you don't even know) who are all there to see you. Must be a strange feeling. :)

[@grantc4516]

Those girls are now women in their late-60s and early-70s. Amazing.

[@claudiamangiamele659]

yep

[@mikopaulperez9612]

Yep i was 5 years old when i heard them singing in tv help i was born in their era 1961 im still young then but when you were bor in 1955 you may be aware and will look for them but still im amazed by their popularity and songs as a band that time and no doubt they are on top and nostalgic thats why im curious and became their avid admirer but i still dont know their individual story before this presetn generation only

[@tracybrass8692]

My grandmother who is 76 saw them in there The Beatles 1964 America Tour

[@MrDaiseymay]

bloody scary you mean---I'm even older.

[@lindadote]

Supreme Kira ......my best mate (almost 73) saw The Beatles in Brisbane.

[@virginiatabirao8707]

I was 9 years old, when beatles were so popular all over the world, I learned to admire the group at my teen age through the radio, they are really fantastic, superb incomparable, their songs will stay forever it will no be forgotten,

[@worldwidehappiness]

The rain in Sydney was inspiration for the song Rain.

[@beatlefancraig67]

This was well put together 10 years ago(in 2014) by EMI Australia, it's now approaching 60 years since The Beatles historic one-off tour of Australia & hopefully they'll have a 60th anniversary t.v special 📺 of the event?, God bless The Beatles!🙏🎶🎵

[@marjanp4784]

The world will never see anything like this ever as there will never be another Fab Four like the Beatles....❤️❤️❤️

[@talatguneyli2124]

The greatest Band ever!

[@boopah4365]

I think the biggest 4 year change in culture, dress, & visuals in the history of the world came between 1964 and 1968...I mean, in '64 they had bob cuts and wore suits, by '68 they had beards, mustaches, & long stringy hair..They were almost unrecognizable just 4 short years later!

[@jannmikoingelrabagogamingc6012]

Man, those chops at the top of that naked branch tree sure deserve an award for being dedicated fans of The Beatles, really!

[@rickyreeve9360]

I just watched a John Lennon interview with Eliot Mintz and he says his fondest memories as a Beatle were going to the US for the first time and Going to Australia.

[@Ruby16663]

Yeah they had a lot of sex in Australia from all reports Lennon commented, ha

[@jadeshannon5583]

I along with my family were among the people that were lining the streets in Melbourne to see The Beatles.

[@frednurk6173]

A couple of weeks after they left Hard Days Night hit all the cinemas. I was 6. Beatle fan for life.

[@nicolemodanza8878]

Beatles visit. Manila

[@beatlejim64]

This is NEVER going to happen again!!!

[@micahsilago3986]

Jim Cushman never!

[@robinmagnusalba301]

Nevah!

[@JanSanono]

And thank god for that. That amount of autistic screaming... ugh.

[@jaquaveonandress649]

Don't say That

[@paulina6658]

One Direction kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH6xp5qwrLWoZrc

[@prmayner]

One big difference about the crowd then and the crowds now, they were GENUINE, not like the coached yelling and screaming you hear today. nobody told them when to start screaming and on who's queue.

[@27NianaJose]

The only band that invades the whole world carzy 😲 no one can beat them ...NO ONEEEEE!! 🖤

[@AbiNomac]

Elvis was better.

[@missyaz4959]

@@AbiNomac Elvis is a solo artist.not a band smh

[@AbiNomac]

@@missyaz4959 - And he was still better than all four of them

[@AbiNomac]

@@sarthaktegta4642 - and yet he lives on 44 years after his passing like know other artist in history. Also, they couldn’t compare to him in stage performance and vocal abilities. I still like them though

[@NotJoegoldberg]

@@sarthaktegta4642 isn't mj more famous than the beatles? idk about elvis.

[@Naughtybaz]

The most progressive band ever. They did about every thing in such a short time, and the world followed And still is. And will forever ✌️♥️

[@Big_Tuna276]

They were the most appreciated band in the history. They(Ringo and Paul) will be gone soon but their music remains in our hearts.

[@BobbieGWhiz]

You never know: you may be gone first or I may be gone first. They may be blessed with many more years.

[@NaaHva]

"Sir Paul" (William) will be remembered in a different light when the truth gets out.

[@donhancock332]

It was a wonder nobody was killed in this!

[@user-bq5lr6dq6b]

The Beatles! The Best! The Greatest! Love them! They are Greatly! ❤️❤️❤️ 🇧🇬

[@paolomargini7904]

Nobody else has ever had such an attendance just for arriving.

[@Raider577]

You mean in Australia

[@johnp515]

@@Raider577What do you mean? Wherever they went there were huge crowds to greet them, if Australia’s 300,0000 thousand was a record it doesn’t mean they didn’t attract vast crowds elsewhere. In America they had ticker tape parades, In the Philippines George Harrison said “it seemed like there were millions there”

[@Raider577]

@@johnp515 I know they attracted crowds wherever they went but in Australia that was the biggest attendance they ever had. Though Abba in Australia may have come close.

[@crazybuthappy97]

300,000 people to just LOOK at them good heavens

[@nthdegree1269]

Yep, and then thousands of people, young and old lined the highway for miles all the way from the airport into the city, with many people in the trees. Just for a "glimpse".

[@barryquinn9368]

I'd just turned one year old when they toured Australia. Loved their music all my life

[@chezzamp5974]

Wow, the memories!! RIP John and George

[@vascoyehezkielsidauruk8519]

+ Paul

[@marisarico4933]

Vasco Yehezkiel Sidauruk Paul is alive

[@sean6992]

@@marisarico4933 yeah

[@simonhammond6585]

No band competes, EVER , all the critics may doubt that statement , but they go to bed at night knowing it’s never going to be repeated. …..

[@anniecrestani1121]

I was 3 and a half year's old and I still remember watching with my Brother 6 and a half and of course Mum we we're all in front of the TV screaming lol true I remember so vividly baci x

[@GussieGreen-om6ln]

Man I would love to travel with the Beatles back in the day

[@davidrowe7967]

There's The Beatles, and then everybody else!

[@colinduff2922]

I remember the day they arrived in Australia.It was pouring but no-one cared. The Beatles were THE greatest pop phenomenon ever.

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

mindblowing those crowds.....can you imagine anyone getting 300,ooo people showing up on the streets to see them these days? In terms of magnitude of fame no one before or after matched the beatles at the height of beatlemania

[@anyaaa2801]

Yep. That's insane.

[@Only1HZ]

On this day in Music - 12 Jun 1964 The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia and were greeted by an estimated 300,000 fans, (the biggest welcome the band would ever receive), who lined the ten-mile route from the airport to the city centre. The group gave their first four shows in Australia at the Centennial Hall, Adelaide over two nights, playing: I Saw Her Standing There, I Want To Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, She Loves You, Till There Was You, Roll Over Beethoven, Can't Buy Me Love, This Boy, Long Tall Sally and Twist And Shout. Temporary member Jimmy Nicol was standing in for Ringo on drums who was recovering from having his tonsils removed.

[@virginiatabirao8707]

Their music will live forever.

[@user-te3jc3sl7r]

It was John, Paul, George, and Jimmy (Nicol) playing the first concerts in Aust until Ringo recovered for the later concerts.

[@Kevin8703_yt]

La mejor banda del mundo. verlos en vivo debió ser muy genial

[@dhtelevision]

I’m a Beatles fan and an aviation enthusiast at the same time, that plane was a BOAC 707-320

[@laercioramos8637]

Amazing!

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Australia was starved for big international acts in those days. So no surprises they had the biggest crowds

[@Stand663]

Australians just miss home. Coronation street actors toured there sometime later and there were greeted by similar large crowds .

[@archangelmusic13]

true but other celebrities visited australia back then and didnt have 300 thousand people come out to see them.

[@blueycarlton]

All the big acts toured Australia with the exception of Elvis. The Aussie promoters had booked the Beatles to tour Australia back in 1963. They made an absolute fortune out of them as they booked the Beatles before they took off in the US and got them on the cheap.

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Technically The Beatles came to Australia twice. The played New Zealand after Aust. but came back to Aust. for more shows in Brisbane.

[@nthdegree1269]

That's correct

[@solaroberto7435]

Beatles forever!

[@sonicdoesfrontflips]

3:11 It was the biggest -Beatles- crowd anywhere in the world, anytime!

[@sitimariyam58]

i loveeee it

[@MichaelSmith-jw8qw]

great tour, nice to see they did so well down under

[@blueycarlton]

Michael Smith1'see They sure did well, more No.1 hits than anywhere else.

[@Prtyh]

Legendary concert. I was not quite born then but I imagine being there.

[@sliat1981]

Out of all the places they played, Festival Hall (Melbourne) in the only place still standing

[@archangelmusic13]

that's not true, the beatles played at cominsky park in chicago, that stadium is still used today, and they also played at busch stadium and i believe that staidum is still standing,not sure about the gator bowl but that might still be standing as well. and the hollywood bowl is still there and being used today,

[@sliat1981]

@@archangelmusic13 in Australia. This video is about their Australian tour

[@archangelmusic13]

@@sliat1981 oh so now you change your comment to appear right, haha well you didnt say that in your original comment, you said out of all then places they played. you didnt say out of all the places they played in australia

[@archangelmusic13]

@@sliat1981 so what if this video is of their australian tour, i see people leaving comments from shea stadium talking about their concerts in australia

[@sliat1981]

@@archangelmusic13 I never once changed my comment. When does it say it was edited. Are you on drugs!? Did you even read my comment? Why the hell would I say that on anything but an Australian video. And Shea Stadium is not even the only American place they played still standing let alone the world

[@mastomasto6197]

Caramba que banda de sucesso.

[@killa46464]

I was 7 months old when this tour occurred . Currently I’m not in too good a state , with spinal issues and nerve pain impacting my ability ( nothing new I’ve had problems since my early adulthood ) Meanwhile Paul McCartney is performing tonight in Melbourne , at 81 !!! He’s truly incredible . 👏👏👏

[@santiagojosegarciabatz7915]

no hay, no existe, banda como los beatles que haya movido tanta gente con su maravillosa musica jamas exixtira

[@blakjack3053]

"GOD INVENTED THE BEATLES" -Alice Cooper

[@hilarydargue9054]

No, he didn't, The Cavern Club in Liverpool England promoted the Beatles

[@alexisramirez7229]

the beatles lo mas grandee nadie los superara ...

[@russellcampbell9198]

Amazing then and in retrospect.

[@davidrowe7967]

The bubble never burst.

[@user-mo9zy9vv5i]

The Beatles so popular ，it's unimaginable 。👠

[@teukurajahitam8225]

From this documentary video we know how Magnificent this Band as the greatest ever in the world history

[@radennikpoknik9594]

The legend band classic...

[@eldiablo8580]

Beatlemania was more intense here than anywhere else in the world!!!

[@nthdegree1269]

Well when nearly the entire city comes to see you. Entire country goes on hold. Crazy

[@RayBrookes1954]

Perhaps a bit more intense in the USA

[@runedennis67]

Just fantastic! :D

[@charlieranger4598]

Wow!

[@TheOompahRoundabout]

Great vid

[@QueenConsternation]

"if they could maintain their popularity here" lol

[@sarcasmo57]

+QueenConsternation So far so good.

[@albinbaiju8956]

@Joe studly they broke up before they cud...I'm sure they went individually though.

[@byronfortier6555]

The crowd scene at 1:26 is kind of scary...wow that's a mob

[@rosering02]

People knew how to rock back then!

[@regionalrange3052]

No Antifa or Lefties to ruin the fun and freedom....

[@jorgebranco8810]

Grandes beatles

[@odorisiogilberto]

Mancava poco che i Beatles in concerto in Australia andassero a suonare e cantare al Polo Sud in mezzo ai pinguini per essere sempre applauditi anche da loro.

[@unstableordinance]

My dad said that when they went to Adelaide he was 8 and his dad owned a house next to the Adelaide Royal show grounds. He said that all he could hear was the screaming of women that was so loud he could barely hear the music lol

[@ricardosuarez1004]

La beatlemania era como un movimiento esto pasaba en todo el mundo

[@videogamesTSH]

1:25 That's not social distancing!

[@cherylbean5881]

Pretty amazing times.

[@gilbertoportillo7908]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.!!!

[@mrsmall9917]

Nahh this is insanity 💀💀💀 Nothing can beat this loll

[@xioswer]

EXELENT

[@fridfab_kstog4422]

😘The Beatles 💜

[@user-te6lc5my4l]

Вот это любовь народа!

[@adrijabhattacharya4140]

How famous these young four men were. All the girls screaming for them 😎😎😎😎

[@AntonioRodrigues-kp2gh]

Só daqui a cem anos aparecerá outro conjunto igual

[@IvysLyfexx]

wow

[@koachviolin8057]

That's insane

[@markissboi3583]

🦜au - Adelaide the biggest crowd 300,000 go crazy fans 👍Mustve 1 hell of a day back then 🎼1964 i wonder how many babys were born the following year ?

[@nazcaz8972]

best edm

[@utpaldas5851]

Golden times of rock music.see the exitments.diehard fans.

[@barryryan8267]

1:19 "Don't blame me Granny..I said don't come with me!!!"

[@mariamery7025]

Nuestra alegría de vivir los idolos nuestro motor

[@kimberlymipatrona4585]

Lo lograstes john fuistes grande the betles los mejores del mundo lo conseguistes

[@jerrodmecca7745]

I wonder how it was in every country that they went to all the people cane iyt to line the srreets if even just to see their limo/ envoy ride by. IN AMERICA THEY EVEN BLOCKED THE QUEENS BRIDGE WOW.. Thats a a very tall long bridge. That's awfully crowded. Wow!!! If someone were to have fallen it would've been game over.

[@chrischew4887]

thats why 60's is called The Wonders year

[@antoniocatao8703]

Alguma dúvida ainda sobre os garotos de Liverpooll? Que são os melhores de todos os tempos? Veja o exemplo do Paul até hoje...

[@angelineg7065]

3.00 paul is such a beautiful guy

[@archangelmusic13]

would you like paul if he were ugly?

[@chezzachezza7325]

My mum was in the crowd her shoe slipped off she bent down and the crowd surges she said it was so awful ..... bumma she wasnt interested going to see Paul McCartney 2023 😢😢😢😢😢

[@boonyee4421]

FOR AMERICANS, THE BEATLES ARRIVAL IN 1964 WOULD ALWAYS BE A PHENOMENAL OCCASION ASSOCIATED TO THEM ONLY.I JUST WONDER WHETHER THEY ACTUALLY KNEW THAT THE FAB FOUR WERE IN DOWN UNDER OR AUSTRALIA.

[@ssleepwalkk9882]

Im going to die without even seeing ringo or paul 😂😭

[@RONALDB62]

The Australians were the only ones who equaled the Beatlemania of America....

[@cotoelciclondeboedo5064]

No exageran nada cuando dicen que la tía Mimi se vuelve a Inglaterra al ver semejante multitud para ver a su sobrino y los demás chicos teniendo en cuenta la población de Australia de ese entonces debe ser la mayor cantidad de gente reunida para ver a un grupo de Rock en todo el siglo XX

[@gentleman1284]

Beatles:girl screaming Mj:men and women screaming & fainting

[@drmattathias]

That's true, MJ attracted a lot of femboys.

[@archangelmusic13]

@@drmattathias and mj was attracted to a lot of little boys

[@blueycarlton]

For those UK baby boomer's out there, at 3.00 the interviewer talking about "social misfits" is Tony Charlton, brother of broadcaster Michael Charlton who was on the long running BBC Panorama TV program.

[@lukemacmahon4157]

Best there was, best there ever will be.

[@thecottagecoreemo3543]

when u gotta watch this for a school thing but you got no headphones and the subtitles are wrong -_-