The Beatles in Australia
Beatlemania tries its hand at a return engagement in Sydney this summer.
Overview
No nation did Beatlemania quite like we did. Perhaps that's because we had just one chance to express our adoration. The Fab Fours' only tour of Australia started with 1,000 fans, 100 journalists and a rainstorm at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport on the morning of June 11, 1964 and finished up with John Lennon's summation, "It was good", on July 1. For two weeks, the country demonstrated a never-before-seen capacity for obsession (with the possible exception, of course, of 60s "egg man" Bob Katter).
Fifty years later, we're invited to relive the fervour via the Beatles in Australia exhibition. Both Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and Melbourne's Art Centre are to be transformed into sites of Beatlemania. There'll be rare objects sourced from fans, collectors and museums; newsreels; television footage; radio excerpts and press clippings, exploring the before, during and after of the visit that, according to some, altered the Australian cultural landscape forever.
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