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On this day, 7 November 1964, music legends The Beatles played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre.
it was the 24th date of The Beatles’ 1964 British tour and a return to the Capitol.
The group had previously performed at the venue on 27 May 1963, and returned for their final UK tour date on 12 December 1965.
They performed two concerts on this night, for which they were paid £850. Their set throughout the 1964 tour contained 10 songs: ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’, ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, ‘Things We Said Today’, ‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You’, ‘I Should Have Known Better’, ‘If I Fell’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’.
The support acts on the tour were The Rustiks, Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam, The Remo Four, Tommy Quickly and Mary Wells, and the compère was Bob Bain. The evening’s two shows began at 6.30pm and 8.50pm.
Mike from Newport on the BeatlesBible website had this to say about the memorable evening - “I remember going to see this concert with my sister ( from Newport by train),it was the 6 .30 pm show.
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I remember Mary Wells singing ‘My Guy” The Beatles opened with ‘Twist and Shout’. they were were dressed in light grey ‘Beatle jackets’ near the end of the song, John Lennon took his tie off and threw it into the front row !,
It was a loud, crazy night. I still have the ticket stub, and one from the Bob Dylan 1966 show !
Footage from the visit in 1964 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PknnUXESgSI
