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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well I'd mentioned the date, June the twelfth, going back
sixty one years, a turnout the likes of which has
never been seen in this town or probably anywhere in
the world for that matter. Three hundred and fifty thousand
mostly young South Australians lined Anzac Highway, converged on the
city to cheer, scream. Some of them fainted for four
young lads from Liverpool who had taken the world by storm.
(00:20):
Well actually it was only three lads because Ringo was
sick and Jimmy Nichol, who was actually from London, had
to fill in for him. Here sixty one years on
after the band touched down and there charted a Anda
Jet on Dune the twelfth, It remains not only one
of the biggest gatherings of people in southa Stradia, but
recognized by the Beatles themselves as that the biggest reception
(00:41):
the band received anywhere in the world, all in the
city with the population at the time of less than
six hundred and seventy thousand. And it almost didn't happen,
you know, ad Led was originally left off the Australasian
tour itinery, a fact that late radio personality, our own
Bob Francis wasn't going to take lying down.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'd read in the paper that the Beatles weren't coming
to Adelaide, and I sort of went on the air
with a feeling of why the hell do we miss out?
You know, a little old Adelaide, the City of Churches,
is not going to get it again, And just off
the top of my head, I just said, would be
great if we get some signatures together, and we got
enough signatures, we could probably convince Ken Rogiet to bring
(01:22):
the Beatles to Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And within days eighty thousand signatures Bob managed to get together,
and that certainly swayed a few heads changed a bit
of thinking. The Beatles concert plan for Sydney, Melbourne and
Brisbane and New Zealand were extended to include Adelaide. At
the Adelaide press conference, they said they were overwhelmed by
the welcome. Well, fellows, tell me what did you think
of the Adelaide reception?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That was great?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Then, isla was it like what I mentioned to you
on the planet would be Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And that was very early on in their careers, and
they said many many years later that Adelaide's reception will
live long in their memories just to it's incredulous to
think that three hundred and fifty thousand people were out there.
And this is in the early days of the Beatles.
Of course, it was like within twelve months of them
hitting the world headlines. And if it hadn't been that,
let's put it this way, Australia could not have afforded
(02:14):
the Beatles were. Evidently they were signed up to come
to Australia at a very cheap rate before they'd hit
the big time nationally or internationally, and we got them
at a bargain basement rate because I think Ken Brodziak
said later on that once they left Australia their price
went up tenfold, if not more. But it was a
(02:34):
great time. If you have recollections of the Beatles too,
I'd love to hear them eight double two three double double.
Oh were you at the concert at Centennial Hall, Ladies.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And gentlemen, the Beatles?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You couldn't hear anything except when they finished the side
the applause, screaming faded a little. Jacodeir Paul say, thank you, Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Were you there? I'd love to hear the story the
Beatles in Australia More specifically hear in Adelaide on this
day in nineteen sixty four and give us a call
if you were there. Eight double two three double DOUBLEO. Well,
Jan Cox SALVEMONI certainly was in Adelaide at the time
she actually met the Beatles, and she joins me, now, Jan,
good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Hello Graham, lovely to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Ah, look what wonderful memories. Tell us all about it.
I'm just going to sit here and drink.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It all in your intro for all of that little
girl in me out so here I am.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
How old were you at the time?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I was fourteen when I was at the airport.
I was the only teenager at the Adade Airport. I
was actually thirteen years old when I learned about the Beatles,
and that was from a friend of mine called Elaine
Haynes at school, and I became an inctant Beatle maniac.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So how did you get to be the sole teenager
Adelaid Airport to meet them?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, a lady called Jill O'Toole was the secretary to
the manager of the Adade Airport, and that was Bill Thomas.
And Jill asked Bill if he wouldn't mind if I
could be there because I am partly paralyzed on the
right side and I have a chronic lung disease. And
(04:37):
he didn't hesitate. He said, yes, of course, he said,
she's going to be brought to the airport by chauffeur
driven car, my own chauffeur driven car. And there I was,
and I was rushed out of the car into the
building and hidden up in a little room. I think
(04:58):
it was for people that were naughty, also small. And
then I was taken down through the media because it
was only the media and the people at the airport
that were there and meet and I was put in
a car and taken out to the tarmac because they
didn't want the plane anywhere near the time the actual
(05:22):
building because they were scared of a riot. The whole
airport was blocked off. Nobody was able to get in
and where they were hoping that nobody would get in.
And there was I standing with everybody waiting for the
plane to land. And then landed at Kontating. It was
twelve eleven five and I sort of walked forward. Jill
(05:50):
helped me to walk forward, and there I was at
the bottom of the steps, right at the bottom on
as they were coming down on their right hands, and
they came out, and as they came out, Paul and well,
Paul was my favorite, you see. So Paul was leaning
over the other side and I wasn't going to have that.
(06:13):
So I forgot that I had to behave myself and
yelled out Paul, and he swung around and so did John,
and they came down the steps and right in front
of me, John said, you could a bit young to
be a photographer, Runcher, and I'm sorry about the accent,
but to try. And so I must have said no
(06:36):
indignantly because as far as I was considered, it's going
to marry Paul. So anyway, I took a photo which
is a close up of the two of them, and
that's been around a bit. People are quite interested in
that photo. Yes, so that was I wanted to get
his autographs, but unfortunately there were so many photographers and
(07:02):
I had my little camera. So I took a couple
of photos, but I held out my autograph book to
Paul to actually get his autograph. But at that stage
she was twenty one. He was looking at me and
he was ready to do it, and he didn't have
any power at twenty one, So then the card was
(07:23):
only allowed to stay for three minutes and off they went.
It was eleven years later. It's another story, but it
was eleven years later. It was a row of coincidences
in Liverpool. I was a dream come true of going
to England and I met Paul and got his autographed.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Wow fulfilled a lifelong.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Dream, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But you didn't get to marry.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Him, No, no, But I got to marry a man,
a wonderful man. I married to Graham forty one years
and he's born in the same years.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So beautiful. What wonderful memories Jan just sensational memories.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Been fantastic. And now I'm a professional speaker and I'm
actually talk about the Beatles if anyone wants me to
talk about the Beatles, and you thank you. And I'm
writing for the Big Smoke in Sydney, and I'm being
(08:31):
sponsored by the Choice Shop to write articles on disability.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now, you weren't one of the hundreds of thousands of
people outside? Was it the South Hotel that doesn't exist?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
No? No, I wasn't because I was fourteen and my
parents were quite looking after my interest compatents.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They were very strict no, they were.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
They were were wonderful parents, but they had their limits
on letting me loose in the city. They were to
let me loose in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And you didn't get to go to the concert, then
it sent aennial.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I did, but you know all those people were at
the concert. I think I got the best deal. I
got to write there, so I was very spoilt. Story.
I got given a book when I was sitting in
that little room waiting, and I still got that book.
And I was asked by a reporter once, you know
(09:32):
why it wasn't I had it? Why didn't I have
it wrapped up special? Because that's an antique? And I said,
we'll hang on a minute. I was fourteen. What does
that make me?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Jan thank you so much for your time today. Thanks
for retelling the story. Jane Cox cel Emoni who actually
got to meet the Beatles when she was just fourteen
years of age five A Mornings with Graham Goodings
Well I'd mentioned the date, June the twelfth, going back
sixty one years, a turnout the likes of which has
never been seen in this town or probably anywhere in
the world for that matter. Three hundred and fifty thousand
mostly young South Australians lined Anzac Highway, converged on the
city to cheer, scream. Some of them fainted for four
young lads from Liverpool who had taken the world by storm.
(00:20):
Well actually it was only three lads because Ringo was
sick and Jimmy Nichol, who was actually from London, had
to fill in for him. Here sixty one years on
after the band touched down and there charted a Anda
Jet on Dune the twelfth, It remains not only one
of the biggest gatherings of people in southa Stradia, but
recognized by the Beatles themselves as that the biggest reception
(00:41):
the band received anywhere in the world, all in the
city with the population at the time of less than
six hundred and seventy thousand. And it almost didn't happen,
you know, ad Led was originally left off the Australasian
tour itinery, a fact that late radio personality, our own
Bob Francis wasn't going to take lying down.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'd read in the paper that the Beatles weren't coming
to Adelaide, and I sort of went on the air
with a feeling of why the hell do we miss out?
You know, a little old Adelaide, the City of Churches,
is not going to get it again, And just off
the top of my head, I just said, would be
great if we get some signatures together, and we got
enough signatures, we could probably convince Ken Rogiet to bring
(01:22):
the Beatles to Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And within days eighty thousand signatures Bob managed to get together,
and that certainly swayed a few heads changed a bit
of thinking. The Beatles concert plan for Sydney, Melbourne and
Brisbane and New Zealand were extended to include Adelaide. At
the Adelaide press conference, they said they were overwhelmed by
the welcome. Well, fellows, tell me what did you think
of the Adelaide reception?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That was great?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Then, isla was it like what I mentioned to you
on the planet would be Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And that was very early on in their careers, and
they said many many years later that Adelaide's reception will
live long in their memories just to it's incredulous to
think that three hundred and fifty thousand people were out there.
And this is in the early days of the Beatles.
Of course, it was like within twelve months of them
hitting the world headlines. And if it hadn't been that,
let's put it this way, Australia could not have afforded
(02:14):
the Beatles were. Evidently they were signed up to come
to Australia at a very cheap rate before they'd hit
the big time nationally or internationally, and we got them
at a bargain basement rate because I think Ken Brodziak
said later on that once they left Australia their price
went up tenfold, if not more. But it was a
(02:34):
great time. If you have recollections of the Beatles too,
I'd love to hear them eight double two three double double.
Oh were you at the concert at Centennial Hall, Ladies.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And gentlemen, the Beatles?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You couldn't hear anything except when they finished the side
the applause, screaming faded a little. Jacodeir Paul say, thank you, Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Were you there? I'd love to hear the story the
Beatles in Australia More specifically hear in Adelaide on this
day in nineteen sixty four and give us a call
if you were there. Eight double two three double DOUBLEO. Well,
Jan Cox SALVEMONI certainly was in Adelaide at the time
she actually met the Beatles, and she joins me, now, Jan,
good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Hello Graham, lovely to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Ah, look what wonderful memories. Tell us all about it.
I'm just going to sit here and drink.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It all in your intro for all of that little
girl in me out so here I am.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
How old were you at the time?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I was fourteen when I was at the airport.
I was the only teenager at the Adade Airport. I
was actually thirteen years old when I learned about the Beatles,
and that was from a friend of mine called Elaine
Haynes at school, and I became an inctant Beatle maniac.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So how did you get to be the sole teenager
Adelaid Airport to meet them?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, a lady called Jill O'Toole was the secretary to
the manager of the Adade Airport, and that was Bill Thomas.
And Jill asked Bill if he wouldn't mind if I
could be there because I am partly paralyzed on the
right side and I have a chronic lung disease. And
(04:37):
he didn't hesitate. He said, yes, of course, he said,
she's going to be brought to the airport by chauffeur
driven car, my own chauffeur driven car. And there I was,
and I was rushed out of the car into the
building and hidden up in a little room. I think
(04:58):
it was for people that were naughty, also small. And
then I was taken down through the media because it
was only the media and the people at the airport
that were there and meet and I was put in
a car and taken out to the tarmac because they
didn't want the plane anywhere near the time the actual
(05:22):
building because they were scared of a riot. The whole
airport was blocked off. Nobody was able to get in
and where they were hoping that nobody would get in.
And there was I standing with everybody waiting for the
plane to land. And then landed at Kontating. It was
twelve eleven five and I sort of walked forward. Jill
(05:50):
helped me to walk forward, and there I was at
the bottom of the steps, right at the bottom on
as they were coming down on their right hands, and
they came out, and as they came out, Paul and well,
Paul was my favorite, you see. So Paul was leaning
over the other side and I wasn't going to have that.
(06:13):
So I forgot that I had to behave myself and
yelled out Paul, and he swung around and so did John,
and they came down the steps and right in front
of me, John said, you could a bit young to
be a photographer, Runcher, and I'm sorry about the accent,
but to try. And so I must have said no
(06:36):
indignantly because as far as I was considered, it's going
to marry Paul. So anyway, I took a photo which
is a close up of the two of them, and
that's been around a bit. People are quite interested in
that photo. Yes, so that was I wanted to get
his autographs, but unfortunately there were so many photographers and
(07:02):
I had my little camera. So I took a couple
of photos, but I held out my autograph book to
Paul to actually get his autograph. But at that stage
she was twenty one. He was looking at me and
he was ready to do it, and he didn't have
any power at twenty one, So then the card was
(07:23):
only allowed to stay for three minutes and off they went.
It was eleven years later. It's another story, but it
was eleven years later. It was a row of coincidences
in Liverpool. I was a dream come true of going
to England and I met Paul and got his autographed.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Wow fulfilled a lifelong.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Dream, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But you didn't get to marry.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Him, No, no, But I got to marry a man,
a wonderful man. I married to Graham forty one years
and he's born in the same years.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So beautiful. What wonderful memories Jan just sensational memories.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Been fantastic. And now I'm a professional speaker and I'm
actually talk about the Beatles if anyone wants me to
talk about the Beatles, and you thank you. And I'm
writing for the Big Smoke in Sydney, and I'm being
(08:31):
sponsored by the Choice Shop to write articles on disability.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now, you weren't one of the hundreds of thousands of
people outside? Was it the South Hotel that doesn't exist?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
No? No, I wasn't because I was fourteen and my
parents were quite looking after my interest compatents.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They were very strict no, they were.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
They were were wonderful parents, but they had their limits
on letting me loose in the city. They were to
let me loose in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And you didn't get to go to the concert, then
it sent aennial.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I did, but you know all those people were at
the concert. I think I got the best deal. I
got to write there, so I was very spoilt. Story.
I got given a book when I was sitting in
that little room waiting, and I still got that book.
And I was asked by a reporter once, you know
(09:32):
why it wasn't I had it? Why didn't I have
it wrapped up special? Because that's an antique? And I said,
we'll hang on a minute. I was fourteen. What does
that make me?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Jan thank you so much for your time today. Thanks
for retelling the story. Jane Cox cel Emoni who actually
got to meet the Beatles when she was just fourteen
years of age five A Mornings with Graham Goodings
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