'We love you, yeah, yeah, yeah!'
Everything changed after The Beatles came.
Rachel Stace, Beatles fan
The Beatles in New Zealand
Setting the scene - The Beatles in New Zealand
'Roll over Beethoven'
Wellington - The Beatles in New Zealand
The Beatles' first stop in New Zealand was Wellington. Seven thousand screaming fans – nearly all young women – waited as the band touched down on 21 June 1964. One girl badly slashed her thigh trying to climb a wire fence, and two others were forced through the fence because of pushing from behind.
A team of 30 police officers, some in plain clothes, was on hand. Bill Brien, in charge of the operation, later said that:
Music and cafe culture
1964 - key events
Beatlemania arrives
Auckland - The Beatles in New Zealand
Beatles programme from 1964
Cover of the Beatles programme for their tour of New Zealand in 1964. See other pages from the programme below:
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Rock and pop touring bands of the 1960s
Pete Townshend throws his guitar in the air before smashing it, while performing the song 'My Generation', at the climax of a concert with other members of The Who in the Wellington Town Hall, 31 January 1968.
The beat boom bites
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