McCartney Times

The long awaited return of The Fab Four to their home city brought chaos as hundreds of thousands of fans took to the streets to greet them.

Following their conquering of the US, on July 10, 1964, The Beatles saw a triumphant homecoming back to Liverpool for the northern premier of their film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’.

As they touched down back in the city, their arrival was greeted at Speke Airport by 3,000 fans.

In The Beatles Anthology, Paul McCartney has spoken of the day the group returned to the city following their success in America.

He said: “We landed at the airport and found there were crowds everywhere, like a royal do. It was incredible, because people were lining the streets that we’d known as children, that we’d taken the bus down, or walked down.

“We’d been to the cinema with girls down these streets. And here we were now with thousands of people – for us. There was a lot of, ‘Hello, how are you? All right?’ It was strange because they were our own people, but it was brilliant.”

The Beatles were driven to Liverpool Town Hall in a police cavalcade, with an estimated 200,000 people lining the route.

Inside the town hall, Lord Mayor Alderman Louis Caplan, gave a speech from the Minstrel’s Gallery to the 714 guests present in the ballroom and The Beatles were each presented with a key to the city.

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Source: Chaos hit Liverpool’s streets as Beatles made triumphant return to city – Liverpool Echo