Summer Learning Journey!
Day 2 Activity 2- Rock 'n' Roll.
Day 2 Activity 2- Rock 'n' Roll.
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Famous bands had started travelling across the world in the year 1964 and New Zealand had hosted the most popular band of the time which was the beatles.So in this activity we had to read about there tour of New Zealand and then post interesting facts about The Beatles tour.
Here is what I read.
The Beatles' first stop in New Zealand was Wellington. Seven thousand screaming
fans – nearly all young women – waited as the band touched down on 21 June 1964.
One girl badly hurt her leg trying to climb a wire fence, and two others were forced
through the fence because of pushing from behind.
A team of 30 police officers, some in plain clothes, was on hand. Bill Brien, in charge
of the operation, later said that:
“We underestimated the whole thing badly. The crowd was so big we had to
… keep all the people behind a wire fence. At one stage it looked like the
fence would collapse, which would have been a disaster.”
As the band stepped off the plane, the shrieks of fans drowned out the noise of the
engines. Te Pataka concert party performed a haka, before doing a hongi (pressing
noses) and presenting the band members with tiki.
From the back of a Holden utility, The Beatles waved to fans
who lined the roads
from the airport to town.
The crowds outside their hotel, the St George, were so large
that The Beatles had to be taken in secretly through the bottle shop entrance of the
hotel. Management rushed the band up to the third floor balcony so fans could see
them and not crash the hotel.
It was mayhem. 'Girls were screaming uncontrollably, quite out of their tree,' people
remembered. Police used dogs to clear crowds from verandahs and other vantage
points. Teenagers pushed over and damaged two police motorbikes; there was so
much pushing that one of The Beatles’ cars was shunted backwards, even with the
handbrake on.
Fans trekked back to The Beatles' hotel after the concert. The band was stuck inside
as crowds gathered outside. Some kept up a late-night vigil on the hill behind the
hotel. Others tried to get round the strict security; four girls strolled onto the sixth
floor into the arms of Ringo Starr. His response was, ‘Now girls, no nonsense or else
I’ll leave.’
Away from all the fuss, two of the band members took the chance to catch up with
family. Police whisked John Lennon away to Levin to meet his second cousins, while
Ringo Starr (formerly Starkey) met a group of Starkeys from the Wellington suburb of
Karori.
- They had frist came to Christchurch
- Lots of girls screamed for the beatles
- For girls strolled onto the sixth floor into the arm of Fingo Star.
- eenagers pushed over and damaged two police motorbikes
-Enjoy Reading!
IALT:Write down 4 interesting facts about the beatles tour in New Zealand.
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