This hour long documentary was made by NEMS Enterprises, Brian Epstein's company, and is by far the best document of a Beatles live show during Beatlemania. Long available only as a "grey" video/DVD, much of it is included in the Beatles Anthology DVD series in beautiful quality.
Broadly, the first half hour shows the lead up to The Beatles performance (build up, backstage, support acts etc.) and then, shorn of two numbers, The Beatles' short set (typically less than half an hour for the full set) follows.
This was, at the time, the largest audience for a live performance ever, at 55,600. The colour is terrific, the audience is deafening, and the performance is surprisingly good considering how loud the screaming was and how primitive their amplification was (their sound was relayed into the stadium's PA system for added volume, and they had no foldback speakers so they couldn't hear what they were playing).
It is worth pointing out that what you hear isn't what the audience heard (not that it could hear anything!), The Beatles visited the studio to create "live sounding" overdubs to sweeten the recorded sound, although for Act Naturally they simply overdubbed the master tape as released on the Help! album.
Watch it to see how these four young men reacted to the hysteria of a startling night.
Broadly, the first half hour shows the lead up to The Beatles performance (build up, backstage, support acts etc.) and then, shorn of two numbers, The Beatles' short set (typically less than half an hour for the full set) follows.
This was, at the time, the largest audience for a live performance ever, at 55,600. The colour is terrific, the audience is deafening, and the performance is surprisingly good considering how loud the screaming was and how primitive their amplification was (their sound was relayed into the stadium's PA system for added volume, and they had no foldback speakers so they couldn't hear what they were playing).
It is worth pointing out that what you hear isn't what the audience heard (not that it could hear anything!), The Beatles visited the studio to create "live sounding" overdubs to sweeten the recorded sound, although for Act Naturally they simply overdubbed the master tape as released on the Help! album.
Watch it to see how these four young men reacted to the hysteria of a startling night.
