The Beatles in Hamburg in 1966 (1)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The Beatles gave their last ever performance before a European audience at Hamburg's Ernst-Merck-Halle on June 26, 1966. This video is edited from a Hamburg police department training film on the subject of crowd management. I have provided English subtitles. Some concert footage is included but the focus is on the fans.
These old recordings prove our parents and grandparents were crazier than we are today.
We're never going to have anything like this again. It's a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon
You are absolutely right. I was 10 yo in 1966. Already loved them.
Never or once in a lifetime? The two are not the same.
I think we were brainwashed. Yes they were good, very good but, we were young and naive.
So glad I lived thru this...people who weren't around during this time have no idea what it was like!
How fortunate we were
Four men who change this world forever.
It's no wonder that the Beatles gave up touring 'live'. What with being 'mobbed' on their way to the gig, and their amps only being the size of a peanut, and dealing with fanatical jelly-baby throwing fans, and all of that bloody screaming.....that would send me scuttling 'back to the studio' to stay there forever! *Well done lads* For putting up with the whole bloody circus! And thanks for the brilliant music & memories along the way!
Really amazing to think of these fan’s fathers....most of whom probably fought against the British some twenty years earlier........
Yeah true, Beatles were brave
Юрае хип
Igen, ez igaz, de az itteniek önkéntesek, a harcolók pedig nem azok voltak...
That's power of music which transcends all man made barriers..
Had the same thought
2:14 where they all walk in a line toward the stage is straight up badassery of the highest calibre
Absolutely.
They had an amazingly confident walk.. Lol
Walkin' like a Mafia bosses
Beatlemania changed the world.
Just think: Only six years earlier in August of 1960 they were playing in Hamburg in this dive off the Reeperbahn call the Indra that had about 2 people in the audience.
And living in near squalor.
Always proud of that.
I wish I could travel back in time. Would have loved to experience the Beatles performing live. If you see nowadays Ahrensburg train station, you wouldn't believe EVER what had been going on there on one certain day in 1966.
No you would have been very disappointed. It was impossible to hear anything except screaming girls. Even the Beatles could not hear themselves playing
It's no wonder that the Beatles stopped touring.
I can't imagine having to deal with what George correctly called it...'a mania'.
Great upload and thanks 👍🎶
Thanks for the feedback. Creating this video was a labour of love. I hope you enjoy some of the other content on my Beatles-inspired channel.
Beatles were already loved and accepted in Hamburg , back in 1961 when Pete Best was the drummer.
Not nearly as much as when Ringo took over ;)
Thanks for telling us what we ALL already knew.
Regardless - How can anyone not accept the Beatles? I would say you shouldn't trust anyone who doesn't like the Beatles. Ha!
Best wasn't!!!
Augmented Keys yeh agree and if my daughter ‘s boyfriend don’t know the Beatles I’ll tell her to dump him
Amazing ! The Beatles = THE BEST Forever.
Germans hardly noticed these geniuses playing their hearts out during the non-stop performances for 6 months. They played for free in the smokey crowded pubs 3 years ago in Hamburg.
This is still valid today whatever the art form.
Marketing
Around 1960 Rock'n'Roll was rather despised in Germany, sometimes hated, with a few exceptions. German-speaking acts often covered rock'n'roll songs, but mostly in a very banal way. It wasn't until 1964/65 that this began to change permanently. Even the Beatles really got their way with this "BRAVO-Blitz-Tournee".
@@user-ns3vi4xs5x, All the marketing done by today’s fake lousy musicians don’t do much for their popularity do they? Beatles never needed marketing. They caught the world with their new sound millions haven’t heard. People needed a wholesome honest music about simpler life and love.
@@rockon416 VERY VERY VERY VERY WELL PUT!
Hamburg Germany is where the Beatles really came together as a band. Before becoming famous they played there for several weeks each year from 1960 to 1962.
The Hamburg crowd adored the Beatles.
Hamburg helped make the Beatles - the live Beatles!
@@allenf.5907 Absolutely. I think John said they went to Hamburg as boys and came back as men.
観客中心に撮影された貴重な映像ですね。
東京へ向かうシーンもまた初めて見ました。
This clip is a perfect example as to why The Beatles decided to stop performing live. You could not the music over the screaming and shouting. Ringo once said he had to watch John and Paul's body movements just to keep his place in the songs. They couldn't hear each other on the stage. Insanity .....
So sad and yet so true.
Also they didn’t have the technology to increase the volume loud enough to overcome the screaming.
So very true!! 👍🎶
I'm a female too and I don't understand why the girls screamed during the songs. I would of rather sang along with the Beatles songs. .
If a band is capable to do that with a german crowd, is a veeeeery good band
true
As John told a German support group: "Don't bother listening to us. We're really terrible these days."
In 1966 they were very famous evrywhere, it started in Germany at the end of 63, Twist and shout, Love me do and the other hits, at that time they represented a big sun after the lead fifties the young people were not mistaken, they started a new life more carefree, the Beatles ,and after the Rolling Stones, really embodied this resurrection
It started in Hamburg Germany in August 1960!
They were great music engineers they built to last for ever
If only The Beatles didn't broke up they could've start touring again in the 70s and 80s which will be even more amazing..i think if they did more ppl and younger generations will recognize them and they'll undoubtedly be the best band to ever exist...considering how many more great hits and experimental songs they can come up with if they hadn't broken up
um Uwu.. They're the greatest band ever anyway.
They broke up at exactly the right time. At the top.
@@johnbarthram3843 VERY well put. And then did there thing and became secsecfull with there talent. " There will never be another like them."
Que emocionante, entonces yo tenía 3 días de edad!! Y bueno, hoy soy muy admirador de su música. 👏👏👏
Brilliant. Many thanks for posting this.
Love the fact that it was a police training film!
Two months later, they stopped touring for good.
Mostly because they knew nobody could really hear them. If live sound equipment had been 10 years ahead they might have toured longer.
@@FireMinstrel or if fans would stop their screaming.
@Fernando Cunha omg, your post is full of nonsense.
Visitors from outta space...playing music never heard before,changing culture!❤❤❤❤
The boys and the girls on this film should be their 70s or 80s now. Long, long time has passed and The Beatles never fade away.
I love the Beatles ❤️💕
do you?
And are you saying. I see comments from people who are from other countries. " How many rock bands have made such an impact from other countries has their Bin."
What's not to love?
The Beatles performances suffered from the limitation in amplification and primitive PA systems. The Voxes and whatever PA systems they would use just could not overcome the crowd and lit a fire in PA advancement. It wouldn't be until after the Beatles broke up did the PA systems and amplification reach a level and sophistication to overcome large venues and loud and rowdy crowds.
Incredible to see this footage and it aligns with most first hand Beatle accounts I've heard. I've met several individuals that were lucky enough to attend a Beatles show in the mid 60s, every one of them described pure pandemonium and not being able to clearly hear the band... Insane the reaction they got!
Great to be a part of the mania here on youtube!
Yo también habría perdido la razón, de estar ahí, un gran recuerdo de ésos jóvenes del ayer.
I was 12 years old at the height of Beatlemania in America in 1964.This clip is informative --Didn't know Beatlemania was still going strong 2 years later.
Since technologies then were not as good as now... they've found it too amazing to see them in personal..today there could be fans but I don't think it would be the same as before...because we could easily see them regularly in our present technologies..
It's ENERGY The Beatles Bought That With Them.
Much appreciated, Mr. Alan Millen... excellent footage of audience, venue, airport scene, etc... almost as if I was there (though, only four years of age at that time).
Please, don't delete... one of my *favorite* clips for the "1966 Tour" era in my play list.
Thanks for the feedback. Making this video was an interesting challenge. It's on here for good. No plans to delete it ever.
Фантастическая любовь людей Смысл жизни артиста в любви поклонников Значит не зря жили и творили
A true rarity, thanks for sharing
I love you the grenam girls nad THE Beatles
I Went to be keyboard player play gremany
'66 was a roller-coaster year for the Beatles. In just a few months, they had to deal with the Japanese Budokan protests, the Imelda Marco fiasco in the Philippines, the 'butcher sleeve' controversy, the 'Bigger than Jesus' backlash, the release of 'Revolver' and their final concert... and they still came out of it a stronger, tighter band! 🏅
I Only heared Loud Shoutings & Saw People Shouting, NOT even heared The BEATLES VOICE Singing ....
I was thinking the same thing and
I recognize everything you said.
1966 was a year they will remember for sure. It was a roller- coaster !
Its just a crazy world,
...and it ever will be
I wonder if when they walked out on that stage if they thought how far we have come from Indra club
Hitler I mean think Beatles could've been good therapy?
@@60sbaby456 A therapy like the German Blitz on your head
Hysteria for the Beatles is unimaginable
Amazing.
Rao, no wonder they quit touring.
Google global truth project and read "the Present" to see the truth about life/death. Nothing is more important than checking it is true, especially pgs 1-4
Lol exactly! Thinking the same thing!
Wow! What an interesting persective of Beatlemania. You really COULDN'T here them much. I think the fans were mostly just getting off on the fact that they're their lol
thats the way it was folks! BeatleMANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😮 I made the same trip as them..Munich to Hamburg by train!! Great video! Thank you very much!!😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Does the revelation that you once did the 6-hour train journey from Munich to Hamburg really require two exclamation marks? 🤷♂
Over 11,000 people saw and maybe heard the Beatles that day. With the possible exception of a few afflicted with alzheimer's, I bet every one of them who is still alive remembers the experience. And probably five times that number will tell you they were there!
ANAZING. IN AUGUST OF 1960 , HOUSE CALL INDRA THE BEATLES WITH PETE BEST PLAYING FOR TWO PEOPLE.
Can you imagine if they had a merchandise booth back then?!!!! The fans took it upon themselves to make their own. Another trend the Beatles inspired most likely. Just a few years before this you could have seen them in the seedy part of Hamburg where the strip clubs were for pretty cheap. With Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe possibly ..and not Ringo. With all the success the Beatles had with live concerts they got ripped off big time in publishing where all the money was. They signed a poor deal with Northern Songs I think it was and didn't have control over their own publishing. I think Michael Jackson at one point owned it. I think Paul and Yoko might have gotten it back at some point. To be or not to be ....famous. I wonder in the end if some of these famous musicians might have traded it all back just to be a regular person and maybe just perform down at the pub on the weekends? Who knows. Its fun to look back now at these times. Funny this is from a police training video!!!!!
Join 1000 Michael Jackson with 1000 Elvis Presley and they won't reach the feet of the Beatles!!!
Beatles best ever!!!
It's a shame that most people who went to see The Beatles didn't get to hear them because more than half the audience members were too busy screaming their heads off and moistening their gussets.
You're right. But honestly, I don't think the crowd in Hamburg really cared. They just wanted to see the Beatles.
@@neilryan9301 If my time machine was working I'd go back to Hamburg, but 5 years earlier to the Star Club. Actually, I'd be very busy in the 60s, mainly 65-70. Imagine going to see Hendrix in some seedy basement bar in Soho when he first came over.
@@daevpaeldruid8200 It's almost mind boggling to think about.
Yeah I hate when there's tooooomuch damn screaming
The very thing that made them in the first place also destroyed their future live concerts. Concert sound for large crowds had not been developed. You can see the disappointment on these fan's faces when what they heard on a vinyl record, movie theatre and television set, couldn't be replicated in a live venue. Their was no alternative, they just had to pull the plug on live appearances.
Is that Heinrich Himmler in section b, row4, seat 23 UNBELIEVABLE! I knew he survived the war
But didn't he die soon afterwards, due to loss of hearing? The screaming teen girls - daughters of Hitlerjugend - killed the nazi?
He is sitting next to Kaiser Wilhelm.
@@countalucard4226 no kidding? let me check it out I'm shocked that the Nazi's were so hep
Lennon got him a back stage pass. Liked his glasses.
@@headshotsongs9465 It's not unlikely, that he really came to see Lenin but misread the poster, due to lost glasses. And then the lost hearing on top of that. What a misfortune, one has to say.
This is a re- enactment of "The Mosquitoes at Carnegie Hall" Now, that was a show !
They didn't have to sound good, or play in key , just show up! I can see why they had to do Rubber Soul, Sgt. Peppers etc.
Don't think the PA systems were very good and they could hardly hear themselves. But, I don't think many fans cared about the sound.
Rubbish they were professional.. they knew their songs backwards, screaming or not they did a professional gig.
Sound was of no importance. You could hear them at home on the record player. Main thing was to be there.
Macca has a superb studio voice but is pretty average when singing live in my very big headed opinion.
Awesome❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
the beatles 👍👍👍👍
Great times,I miss them
99% of the people who see this Hamburg video don't appreciate the incredible historical irony of what is happening here. The Beatles first came to Hamburg in August 1960. Just over 15 years earlier, Hamburg suffered the most horrifying bombardment of WW2 up until that time. Over 8 days and night the city was almost totally burned down by thousands of Allied bombers dropping incendiary bombs. The streets and the harbors and canals were littered with thousands of incinerated bodies everywhere. The horrendous death and destruction was beyond description. Yet by the time the Beatles arrived in 1960, Hamburg had recovered and a whole new generation of German teenagers became hooked on the Fab Four like the rest of the world. If there ever was a good reason for defeating Hitler and the evils of Nazism, the Beatles and their young German fans are one of the greatest reasons why.
I appreciate your comment. Subtitling the film was a labour of love. Some German viewers have pointed out to me that the then Chancellor and his wife, Helmut and Lotte Schmidt, are in the audience.
Eu acho incrível esse vídeo pq ele foca exatamente na reação do público alemão. O jovem alemão dos anos 60. Isso é muito manero. A reação dos caras ainda querendo acreditar no que estava acontecendo. Alguns olhares de desconfiança... muito bom mesmo.
É demais, você nota ali toda a seriedade do alemão, mesmo entre os ainda mais jovens, todos sentadinhos e comportados, comparando com outras plateias. (Seriedade muito natural para uma nação que havia sido dividida por um muro havia apenas 5 anos). Mas também observa que entre alguns desses jovens (especialmente os rapazes) as sementes da contracultura já estão presentes, os caras pirando com a apresentação, desvestindo-se daquele comportamento vetusto.. Um ano depois, rolaria o 'verão do amor' em Frisco e os Beatles lançariam Sgt. Pepper's, o grande disco da era. Em certa medida, os Beatles foram um dos melhores remédios para a Europa nos anos 60, ainda se reconstruindo e muito ressentida.
@@GuilhermeRodrigues-iq8ix Exatamente. Mais contidos que as japonesas, se comparar.
E os jovens japoneses, lembremos, tinham censores e policiais monitorando o tempo todo seu comportamento (imagine isso).
@@GuilhermeRodrigues-iq8ix Yes. ( But if you think about it that is when the hormones are starting to really kick in.) So I guess we should blame the Beatles for this world being over populated. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
in case you didn't recognize what they were playing:
the first song ----- I wanna be your man
second---------- Baby's in black
Thanks. Was wondering about that second song.
@@pauldavies5611 glad it helped :)
Well...obviously not much good as a concert recording...but as a record of the experience that day in Hamburg, top marks. I don't suppose a fan sitting in the audience would have heard it any better than this! The Beatles were much more than a band...they were a historical phenomenon brought in on the crest of the "Baby Boom".
The original source was a Hamburg Police training film on crowd management. I edited it down from 30 minutes to 7 and added the subtitles. The two Hamburg shows on June 26, 1966 turned out to be the Beatles' final appearance in Europe.
4:31 is she reaching up the clímax?
She’s having a religious experience
The catalyst for picking up guitar when I was about 9 "Hard day's Night"
Me too. I became Jimmi Hendrix before I retired aged 27.
A police training film!
Me, after 30 seconds just trying to figure out what song they're playing:
I WANNA BE YOUR MAAAAAAAAAN
That's actually really good footage ...shows the mania well...
Why didn't they want to listen to them? Insane hysteria. Groundbreaking recordings, the same old set live. I guess it didn't matter what they played
ファンの絶叫しか聞こえませんね。ビートルズが当時の世界を引っ張っていたのが証明される動画ですね😃。
Incredible. A shower of brittle screams...
Who would bring a little child?
Show,Very Very good
still love this music!!
The fans were so restless and the Beatles exhausted by their sudden superstardom...
One of lifes regrets never seeing the Beatles play live...I was only eight when they stopped performing live in 1966.
Nice and good service
It is truly unbelievable that the band could play at all in such a din. The PA systems back in those days were terribly inadequate and to think they probably had the best available. I don’t think they even had any foldback speakers. No wonder they gave up touring, no one could hear them and for the 4 lads it was all about the music, in effect they could have been playing ‘white Christmas’ no one could probably tell the difference anyway
i live in Hamburg
... dann sei doch so gut und grüß mir den Michel
und die Mundsburg, wo ich 25 Jahre verbrachte.
Frohes Fest, @SIMS 4, und 'n Guten Rutsch !
Gruß vonne Philippines,
Jörg
i'm planning visit hamburg on summer
you know for follow some early beatles steps
I can't understand why they stopped touring, quite honestly
Сейчас такие эмоции только на финалах ЛЧ, чемпионатов Европы и мира по футболу.
Who would want to put up with this for more than a couple months? They were going on three years, who needs it...
Coming sing here!
♥️
1945 to 1965 Wow!! Hitler would not have seen this coming!! Lol❤❤
hitler would turn in the grave
I Now get it !!!! ( The Beatles wanted the same fame as Hitler the little sticker. But the Beatles knew how to do it the right way.) " ALL RIGHT GUYS "
Police training film: Public Domain
Its stunning
Where are the Beatles??? :(
They Beatles, inmortales
Is to bad there isn’t one single bit of film from their early years there from 1960 to 62.
Except there is.
@@johnnyhartley4330 Liverpool Cavern yeh but no Hamburg. Rumoured Top ten Club from 1961 but it would be out by now.
@@tyronerodgers Sorry, I misread your comment, and thought you were talking about any film, rather than Hamburg. It seems a waste of them not to have filmed themselves, even for promotional purposes to get gigs back in the UK, but that is being wise after the event, at the time they were just a group of friends having a fun time playing music together in a german bar.
Absolutely insane
And they came to Japan(…but I was 4 y.o. then).
Awww😅😅
Good chance of plane crashing in those days scary the amount of flying they did
Don't be silly.
It's not the Beatles in Hamburg, it's Beatles fans in Hamburg. Sadly nothing in this video is particularly to watch or listen..((
The sound captured by the video recordings wasn`t good enough, although if you were there you`ll hear the same sound of this video just very much loud...
This is what happens when you record a concert on your smartphone.
No smartphone in 1966 :)
@@arneemilbredland2339 It's a joke ....
Beatlemania going slowly off the rails...The Beatles would quit touring for good two months later to focus on music created in the studio for the rest of their career.
And to hide the new "Paul".
Что сказать,было время Золотое.
Это была наша юность
I can't even tell what songs they were playing.
I Wanna Be Your Man and Baby's in Black are recognisable. In the second video you can hear parts of Paperback Writer and Nowhere Man.
Happier times in Europe….
本当にビートルズは凄かった！
Êxito musical 🌹💞
Это какое-то безумие !.
You could go and WATCH a Beatles concert, but when it was at LISTENING, then it was impossible, due to the crowd.
Билз это " ручная работа, штучная" Всевышнего!
Porque filman al publico en lugar de la banda?
Se trata de un extracto de un documentario de entrenamiento de la policía alemán. Disculpa mi castellano pobre, pero ?Entiendes? Saludos desde Suiza.
@@byebyejohnny785 ok entendi
Gracias