It seems like yesterday
Tomorrow is exactly 50 years since The Beatles played a now legendary show in Blackpool.
JON RHODES looks back on a day when the Fab Four chose to unleash one of the most famous pop songs of all time.
“For Paul McCartney of Liverpool... Opportunity Knocks!”
The wacky one liner and cheeky grin of a fresh-faced George Harrison said it all, after he approached the microphone to introduce his bandmate to the fired-up audience at Blackpool’s ABC Theatre on Sunday, August 1, 1965.
The Beatles had something pretty special lined up for the resort crowd – not to mention the millions watching the ‘Blackpool Night Out’ show back home on TV.
Acoustic guitar slung around his neck, mop top Paul was left alone under the spotlight as John and George exited stage left.
Two minutes and four seconds later, as the song came to an end, everyone watching knew they had witnessed something ground breaking. Paul McCartney of Liverpool had very much ‘passed the audition’ and the legend that is Yesterday was born.
The song, McCartney’s beautiful and aching ballad of lost love – a tune which, as legend has it, came to him in a dream – is widely considered to be pop music’s most popular.
By: Jon Rhodes
Source: Blackpool Gazette
