![]() Sadly, no recordings survive of Dylan’s first two concerts in Cincinnati. Call it a Beatle or call it a beatnik, these outsiders were seen as Pied Pipers coming to enchant and abduct the city’s youth. For worried civic leaders and parents, there was no point in splitting hairs. Such fine distinctions were lost on the guardians and protectors of Cincinnati, however. In fact, the folkies and progressives who revered Dylan thought Beatlemania was a vapid farce. His music and persona were markedly different from The Beatles in 1964. John, Paul, George, and Ringo should not feel so all alone: Dylan would also get stoned by the Cincinnati press during his first appearances there the following year. Photo by Henry Grossman, posted on Meet The Beatles for Real website. You have to check this out:īob Dylan arriving at Delmonico Hotel to meet The Beatles, 28 August 1964. Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Benjamin Schwartz was so disturbed by the show that he delivered a stern-and absolutely priceless-public rebuke. Some jumped up and down on their seats” (1). ![]() Others waved their hands above their heads and screamed at the tops of their lungs. Some sobbed, clutching their hands to their mouths. The story portrayed an outbreak of mass hysteria, as well as an assault on community values staged by foreign agitators: “The youngsters were in the midst of an emotional banzai attack against anything that remotely resembled logic and order. The screaming was so loud for 10 minutes that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Marine Corps Band would have been drowned out.” (1) The Beatles played three numbers, but they might as well have been doing a pantomime. The Beatles made their appearance, and the mob exploded into a maelstrom of sound-screaming, stomping, crying, begging, moaning-every imaginable sound a human is capable of making. Inside the sweltering arena, the crowd was whipped into a frenzy when the lads from Liverpool took the stage: As you can see, the story included a photo of several screaming teen girls holding hand-made posters and a giant image of doe-eyed Paul McCartney. ‘Unbelievable’ was the closest they could come to creating a word picture of the bedlam” (1). Veteran reporters and policemen were stuck for words to describe the demonstration 14,000 seemingly demented teenagers put on for their idols. The unnamed journalist covering this pandemonium reported, “A screaming, howling ‘Beatle-cane’ struck Cincinnati Gardens Thursday night.
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