McCartney Times

Photographer Ian Wright was just 18 when he captured The Beatles on stage on 22 November 1963. But the photos never made it into his newspaper because of an event half-way around the world.

The Beatles had just played their first set at the Stockton Globe to 2,400 screaming girls, and another 2,400 were making their way in for the night’s second performance when the frontman of the support band heard a newsflash on his transistor radio.

“He had a clapped-out trannie that was held together with chewing gum and elastic bands, and he used to tie the little aerial around one of his cymbal stands,” recalls Wright, who was hanging around backstage.

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Source: ‘All I can hear is a cacophony of screaming girls’ – photographing the Beatles and Stones – BBC News