22 May 1963

Concert:

Gaumont Cinema, St Helen's Street, Ipswich, Suffolk

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"Early 60s. Love Me Do had just come out. Beatles were playing at Ipswich Gaumont and I had a ticket. I was dashing home from work to get changed and go to see them. It was raining. I saw 4 fellows standing looking in the window of Footmans department store.I realised that they were the Beatles. I wandered over and pretended to be looking in the window. There was nobody else in the whole street. Finally I said to Ringo who was nearest to me 'I'm coming to see you tonight' He said 'Hope you enjoy it' and the others all said something else to that effect. My strange recollection from that encounter was that I realised that I was taller than all of them except Paul. Later at the Gaumont I could hardly hear a thing because of the screaming girls. Happy days.

Male, 65 South East England "

Source: http://www.magicalmemorytour.com/viewmemory.php?id=10473&cat=Gaumont,%20Ipswich

"I went to see the Beatles at Ipswich Gaumont in 1963 as a schoolgirl - I booked tickets two weeks after the box office opened and amazingly got second row seats in the stalls!

Roy Orbison was great and Louise Cordet was very good; I remember she had a hit with a song called I'm Just a Baby. The Beatles were gorgeous. There was no hysteria and no huge crowds that I can remember. In fact, in contrast to the gig at the Odeon in Romford about a month later, it was pretty low-key.

A whole lot of us schoolgirls booked a coach from Colchester to Great Yarmouth to see the Beatles a few weeks later but they did not appear. Gerry and the Pacemakers topped the bill I think. A bit of a disappointment when it should have been the Beatles. Absolutely everyone at school was talking about the Beatles.

I had cousins behind the iron curtain and they were Beatles fans and wanted to know more about them. I was a member of their fan club, run by Bettina Rose in Liverpool in those days, and had that feeling that they were 'my' group. Round about this time I became conscious that they were a world-wide phenomenon..."

Source: http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/05/22/live-gaumont-cinema-ipswich/




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