McCartney Times

By the summer of 1964, Beatlemania was hitting its peak in North America. Just six months after first appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles had already released A Hard Day’s Night – both the film and the studio album. The band’s initial tour of North America lasted just two weeks in February, after which time they returned to Europe for more tours, more filming, more recording sessions, and more hysteria. In the short amount of time they were away, The Beatles managed to score six number-one singles on the American pop chart.It’s not hard to imagine how exhausted the band must have been pulling into Vancouver on August 22nd. The tour was only four days old at that point, but the band had no time to rest. The band had played three different cities in three consecutive days, only finding slight calm on plane rides and in hotel rooms. Once they stepped off the plane, The Beatles were expected to immediately meet the press for questions. Their responses, while witty, were also terse and limited.

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