The Beatles - Washington DC Press Conference (15 August 1966) Audio Only
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Sometimes it's a little difficult to hear some of the questions, but I feel this press conference is still worth a listen. Some of the questions are directed at the Beatles' music, for a change, which is refreshing. They also discuss what happened to the Beatles' next film, what they think about musicals & John fields questions about the Ku Klux Klan & Vietnam.
Once more, since this is audio only, photos from that day are provided in the video.
Judith Sims, Editor, TeenSet Magazine: The (press) conference was held before the show in a hot stadium room, but the heat and humidity did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the aggressive Washington press. ...it was generally a positive, pro-Beatle thing. And, those are nice.
Uploaded for "The Beatles 1966 International Tour" Blog: johnstoskopf.bl...
![Beatles "Taping Session" Chicago [12 August 1966] Audio Only](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ky4W51T_qUA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Beatles "Taping Session" Chicago [12 August 1966] Audio Only](/img/tr.png)
![Paul McCartney with Larry Kane & the Beatles with Jean Morris - ca. 8-11 Sept 1964 [Audio Only]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-ofAIQrBfyc/mqdefault.jpg)
I saw the Beatles at this Washington DC show. My wonderful mother took me and we had a great time. I'll never forget it. In fact I still have the ticket stub.
Very cool!
They said I was too young too go with them all the the Cow Palace concert, Ah I have the ticket stubs somehow to this day!
Very Cool! I saw the Beatles the very next evening at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. I wish I had video or photos from that concert. :-(
wow, their last concert was two weeks later
It was a dead secret from the world for a very long time---they just disappeared. Then came Sgt Pepper and the end of their miraculous impossible songs and sound.
What they instead should have done is, instead of destroying what they were as a live band, they should have given TV specials of live performances of their latest albums, watched by the world all at once. They could perform in comfort and pick out their best take with studio audiences. Instead music just became their hobby and got very lame.
John: WE SHOULDA BEEN PRAYING MORE
To finish with my earlier comment out on the west coast the debut album being recorded and released during the following January was simply titled "The Doors" and the onetime teen kid who graduated in high school with the female friend of my Aunt was in fact named James D. "Jim" Morrison, the future rock singer legend of the Doors. I will also point out that the photo at 7:21 of the press conference above the head of George Harrison shows the name on what appears to be masking tape of (Don) "Lock", who was a baseball outfielder for the Washington Senators that year, but by the end of December had been traded to the Phila. Phillies for a pitcher named Darold Knowles. Another little remembered story was that the longtime team clubhouse attendant named Fred Baxter had all the Beatles autograph two baseballs, one for his family and the other at the request of a pitcher named Mike McCormick, who some four decades later would put the Beatles autographed baseball up for auction for a very hefty price!
If you listen to their 1966 press conferences, aside from the "Popular than Jesus" comments, you can probably tell that they were fed up with live touring.
Huge difference to the earlier interviews, in parts just the opposite.
Grumpy, negative, slightly aggressive
This is quite interesting as someone that grew up around the nation's capital area during the 1960s and '70s. Nothing that's especially revealing was said at this press conference, but my own Aunt, who was still 21 and her next birthday was at least two more months away, went to D.C. Stadium that night with her female high school friend to see this concert (notice I used the word "see" since from several first hand accounts it could hardly even be heard by the concertgoers). Her friend finished high sch. a year prior
than she did, there was this one classmate of her friend who was a very bright kid but was prone to sometimes behave very bizarrely. His father was a Navy Admiral stationed over at the Pentagon at that point, but by the time of this Beatles concert, this teen kid was now a 22-yr. old on the west coast recording a debut album with his college classmate and a couple of others, it would eventually be released the following January titled simply
Is there any footage from the concert that night? I was there, only ten years old at the time. My parents took me. I remember that I couldn't hear any of the music. None. Girls screaming was the only sound.
Thanks for the reply, Debbie. On a side note, I grew up in VA across the street from a girl named Debbie Smith. A coincidence, I'm sure, but it made me smile.
I was there too...had just turned 8 years old the month before. I was very excited to be there but all I could hear was screaming.
They must have been so fed up at this point after 4 years of touring....
Thanks for the upload. I wonder where the videos of this went? One was them posing for photos pre interview and then answering questions I believe, and another was just a color clip of John answering the question about the Vatican newspaper.
Did they all know at this time that they would never tour again?
Not definitively. They had a feeling, that was more pronounced at the very end of this tour, that this was going to be the final one.
Was this the 'mainstream press?? You gotta be big to have a 'Press conference' what band gets this?
🙏🔮💞
the mojo is fading
My Roman Catholic Priest and me at that time were members of the Ku Klux Klan in Rockville, Maryland at that time!!!!!
you shouldn't be too excited about it ya little shit.
holy shit you're actually so fucked up. Your favourite video playlist is disgusting.
bitch what
He's trolling guys. The KKK hates Catholics.
Well, we know catholics aren't Christians.