‘Kin ell Smithy . I was there that night with the Beatles . We were all waiting down the side alley for them to come out after the show and as they drove away they drove over my foot !Everybody reminiscing about music of the past brings back some great memories .
I will forever have a lasting memory of going to Walthamstow Granada with a few mates in early '63, to see Roy Orbison. We were horrified when the show started to see that the 'Big O' was given second billing to some guys called 'The Beatles'. Six months later we understood.
Also a stand out memory from those days were the New Musical Express annual concerts held at the indoor arena, Empire Pool I think that they called it in those days, at Wembley.
Given the success of Spurs in those days Wembley was almost a second home. But to see Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hollies, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Moody Blues, Dusty Springfield all on the same bill, was almost as good as watching Spurs win Cup Finals there. Used to have to walk home fifteen miles because the last bus had gone by the time the concert ended, but it was worth it.
We were in central London about a month later when we saw the Queen mother in her car . As we got closer to give her a wave . the car pulled off and went over the same foot the Beatles had gone over . I must have the only left foot in the world that has been flattened by the Beatles and the Queen Mother!
The Walthamstow Granada was our Saturday morning pictures venue as kids .