https://youtu.be/VbYzBIrntbI

A/N: This is what I was supposed to be exploring with you in the last chapter!!

Two sides of the coin, two perspectives of the day Paul and George took on the Mountain, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland, Tuesday 30th June 1964.

I live about 10minutes drive from here so its a interesting that the boys 'drove roads I drive' .

The above is all I have known of the Tamborine Mountain visit until yesterday that was. The small local rag 'Tamborine Mountain News' published another article, 19/12/17. An article by the owner of 1 of the MG's.

Why only Paul and George you may ask.....

Arriving in Brisbane just after midnight on 29th June'64 Paul was first to step off the plane,  followed by John , Ringo  and finally George. They stepped on to an awaiting table-top truck and began a tour of the fence line to acknowledge the crowd. The excitment was marred by an unfortunate incident when a handful of attendees at the back of the crowd threw a barrage of eggs, tomatoes, orange peel, newspapers and a cushion at the Beatles. Paul McCartney later remarked "We were disappointed at the egg throwing...it was all so pointless." Due to this incident the John and Ringo did not make any further public appearances outside of their concert performances. It was reported that John Lennon said, "No more unscheduled public appearances we've had enough eggs. As long as we're in Brisbane it's just here [Lennon's Hotel] and the [Festival] hall for us."  How sad for Brisbane. Note: John didnt own the hotel it was a coincidence!     (1884  was the year when hotelier John Lennon built a remarkably stylish three-storey building on George St !!)

Lovely pictures of memorabilia  here:  http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2014/06/13/4025052.htm  ~ the man had a display at a museum in Toowoomba but I couldnt get there :( 

There's a possom in me pocket!

More details from there pit stop in Brisbane, this is from Jeff Black the gentleman in the above article (I think ~ I have it in my documents folder with no name- oops!) :

John meeting Cyn, the kangaroo!

Fin. 

https://youtu.be/e6r523MsuUk

Beatles -- Live -- Australia Concert excellent film w/ great audio!

Heres more details on the egg debacle if you wan tto read it...

And those egg throwers:

Those egg throwers were all university students who didnt care for the Beatles sound or looks. Bob Katter a CURRENT politician in Australia.

 News.com.au Story : Federal politician Bob Katter has outed himself and several high-profile barristers as the culprits who pelted the Beatles with eggs during their Australian tour in 1964.

Mr Katter's admission ends a 40-year mystery about who threw eggs at the Fab Four as they were greeted by screaming fans in Brisbane in 1964.

The Beatles touched down in Brisbane just after midnight on a chilly June night in 1964. About 8,000 fans were there to greet them, along with a group of non-fans with eggs in their pockets.

Mr Katter has now revealed he was among that group. "A bloke called Dave Beattie - a prominent accountant now - was on my shoulders and ... everyone let fly with the eggs," Mr Katter said.

"[The Beatles'] truck sped up and they were hiding behind the piano as all these eggs splatered everywhere. "The police got me and ran me away and they thought it was screamingly funny. They let me go and both burst out laughing."

The egg-throwing shocked the Beatles, who put an ad in the paper and on the radio the next day calling for the throwers to come forward. A Brisbane girl, Susan, and her two friends owned up even though they were not the culprits.

"We didn't actually have any real interest in the Beatles," Susan explains now.

"It was just that everyone was trying to get in to meet the Beatles and we thought, 'well, we can do it'. "We were ushered up to the room and [after] a short conversation, we said 'we better be going'.

"They said: 'Oh no, no, no, don't go. Stay and talk to us, because we're bored. 

"They wanted just people to talk to because they couldn't go out because their hotel, Lennon's Hotel, was just surrounded by screaming teenagers. "While we were there, the real egg-throwers arrived."

The real culprits were a group of university students.

Mr Katter, now a veteran stirrer and Independent MP for the federal seat of Kennedy in north Queensland, has only now come forward with the full story.

He says that when his group went to meet the Beatles, "the manager said: 'Would you be game to throw the eggs now?'"

"One of our blokes - a bloke called Peter McHugh, another prominent barrister these days - he shaped up and said 'you want a blue, we'll give you a blue alright' and this is incredible," Mr Katter said.

"I was explaining that it was an intellectual reaction against Beatlemania - I'd thought this story up on the stairs on the way up of course. "We were having this intellectual argument and Tony Glynn was another one [of us] - he's the deputy chairman of the Bar Association for Australia and president of the Bar Association in Queensland these days - and the manager said 'would you be game to throw the eggs'.

"And McHugh's sort of shaping up ... and Gary Williams, the fifth one, he stepped in between McHugh and Paul McCartney or whoever and he said: 'Hey, settle down. Obviously you can't throw eggs here, we'll have to go and find an oval somewhere.

"It was all taken seriously for awhile.

"John Lennon just sort of sat there saying 'everywhere we go now we're going to have eggs thrown at us'."

Mr Katter says the group managed to make quite a name for themselves. "Our reputations were made from that point forward," he said. "We walked around like conquering heroes for the next two or three years."