Watch this New Musical Express winners show from 1964 with The Beatles, The Stones, the Hollies and more

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Got my first phonograph in 1964, been crate digger ever since.

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Lol, that was a little bit glib. So much creation going on at that tine. A special time for good and bad.

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Is it weird that, among all of those hall of fame acts on the rise, I thought the Searchers came off the best that day?

Or is it strange that about 2/3 of all the songs were covers of US 1950s R&B acts?

Great show though!

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Fun to see John make a mistake and go into the solo break too soon on “You Can’t Do That” and the rest of the band just ignores it and keeps it going. Been on both sides of that many times and it’s always great to watch how bands manage it.

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The last word of this article links to nonsense URL “http://Gerry & The Pacemakers”.

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Much nostalgia (including, unfortunately, too much of that disgusting shit Savile).

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He screws up in She Loves You right away by doing the 3rd verse as the 2nd verse, but it didn’t matter since Paul/George’s microphone wasn’t working until the middle of the next song so they didn’t sing over each other (you can see that they’re singing harmonies for the correct verse though)

And its a good thing that mic recovered since John used it for lead on Twist and Shout and that would have been awkward with a dead mic

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the Manfreds (great keyboards),

They were erroneous introduced (by molester Jimmy Savile) as The Manfreds but as far as I know they weren’t officially called that until they reunited in 1991 without great keyboardist Manfred Mann

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Yeah, exactly. They learned to play really fast early on to amp up energy and get through sets faster. It was exacerbated by the inversion of theater amplification and increasing crowd noise, so they really all had to just power through and hope the wheels were still attached at the end.

Rock n Roll🤘

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That first Act was the Joe Loss group with singer Ross McManus doing “Patsy Girl”. Ross is better known as the father of Declan McManus - who is better known as Elvis Costello.

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