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Live Music

Artist: The Beach Boys Venue: King Edwards Nurses Home City:   Leeds, England, UK Date: Sunday, 8 Jun 1969 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:  3 Wishlist

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Notes

Afternoon performance for 150 nurses and patients in the nursing home. With Jimmy Saville, the concert was filmed by the BBC for Top Of The Pops. Played for one and a half hours, apparently around one microphone with three acoustic guitars and drumming a packing case. Went on to play two shows in Manchester in the evening.

Images

Number: 1543248  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: chrisb Description: Leeds infirmary- Beach Boys 1	Number: 1543249  Uploaded By: chrisb Description: Leeds Infirmary - Beach Boys 2	Number: 1543250  Uploaded By: chrisb Description: Leeds Infirmary - Beach Boys 3, Audience.	Number: 1543251  Uploaded By: chrisb Description: Leeds Infirmary - Beach Boys 4, with Saville
Number: 1543252  Uploaded By: chrisb Description: Leeds Infirmary - Beach Boys 5, with Saville

Comments and Reviews

chrisb 8th Jan 2018		Surely one of the most unusual Beach Boys gigs ever (some pictures now added) Venue: King Edwards Nurses Home at the Leeds General Infirmary. And the photos, contrary to the information I put in the notes, show a couple of microphones and Carl Wilson with an electric guitar. But it still looks like a decidedly lo-fi event, performing at one end of the room. Savile later recalled in a BBC radio interview: “I said what have you brought with you and they said ‘Nothing. We have three acoustic guitars and a set of drumsticks…With three acoustic, with the drummer sitting on a chair, playing on the top of a packing case…and with one microphone between…them…They gave us a session the like of which I could never even remember…They sang so good that they knocked themselves out. They sang for an hour and a quarter. They sang every song they knew, including ‘Good Vibrations’ because the nurses kept shouting (for it). Nobody was sitting down, everyone was standing up…It was too fantastic for words.”

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