Beatles 1964 KC concert - 25th anniversary video
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This is a 25th anniversary news report about The Beatles September 17, 1964 concert in Kansas City. It's from 1989, and features interviews with Charles Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics baseball team, who paid the highest price for a Beatles appearance, $150,000 for the 20-30 minute show in KC. Have never seen Finley interviewed before, so thought this was interesting! Also interviewed is Curt Gunther, the Beatles official tour photographer in 1964. I was chatting with a security guard at the Truman Library a few years ago, and he said he was on security detail near the stage for the Beatles 1964 concert in KC. He said that after their last number, one of the Beatles said, "Don't go away now, we'll be right back!" and the audience was expecting them to return to the stage. After waiting 10-15 minutes though they realized they had left the stadium. The security guard told me that they had left immediately for the airport right after the concert was over. It was his opinion that saying "we'll be right back!" was a tactic to keep the audience in their seats so their vehicle could leave quietly without being swamped by hundreds of girls
They had to do what they had to do, in order to survive
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Hi LadyLeslie! I always knew that you write another thread on the famous Kansas City 17 September 1964 show that The Beatles would add later to the 64 tour courtesy of the late Charles Finley. I could tell that the whole story was never told, especially by Mr. Finley. If anyone wants to know the real truth behind the Kansas City show held on 17 September 1964, purchase the BEATLES '64: GOIN' TO KANSAS CITY CD book! In this set, you will receive a CD with a 31 page book telling the complete story of how Charles Finley brought The Beatles to Kansas City, the arguments between Charles Finley and John Lennon as well as the concert itself! Believe me when I tell you that this story is the true stuff of legend. I believe I quoted a lot of pages word for word from the 31 page book on the other Kansas City thread that LadyLeslie started here on the forum a while back. Please try finding it, it is very interesting.
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Hi there jl4761!
2: good to see you! 
How are you? Thanks for your post, and for bumping up the Beatles in KC thread Always enjoy talking with you about their 1964 KC visit I still need to get the book and CD you mentioned! I have mixed feelings about Finley, and don't know what to think of him... sometimes he doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer (to put it bluntly :lol and appeared rather desperate in his attempts to snag the Beatles for an appearance... but I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to refuse his offer of $150,000... Somehow I get the feeling he was a source of amusement to the Beatles, because of his desperation, it's difficult to put into words.... I feel his motivation to get them to KC was that he was desperate to save his professional baseball team, the KC Athletics, which was losing a lot of games and suffering from poor ticket sales. Still don't understand his reasoning though, about how the Beatles in KC would help him out...., 
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LadyLeslie:
Hi there jl4761!
2: good to see you! How are you? Thanks for your post, and for bumping up the Beatles in KC thread Always enjoy talking with you about their 1964 KC visit I still need to get the book and CD you mentioned! I have mixed feelings about Finley, and don't know what to think of him... sometimes he doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer (to put it bluntly :lol and appeared rather desperate in his attempts to snag the Beatles for an appearance... but I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to refuse his offer of $150,000... Somehow I get the feeling he was a source of amusement to the Beatles, because of his desperation, it's difficult to put into words.... I feel his motivation to get them to KC was that he was desperate to save his professional baseball team, the KC Athletics, which was losing a lot of games and suffering from poor ticket sales. Still don't understand his reasoning though, about how the Beatles in KC would help him out...., And just think LadyLeslie, all of The Beatles KC 64 began with Finley's daughter wanting to see The Beatles but weren't coming to KC!
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jl4761:
LadyLeslie:
Hi there jl4761!
2: good to see you! How are you? Thanks for your post, and for bumping up the Beatles in KC thread Always enjoy talking with you about their 1964 KC visit I still need to get the book and CD you mentioned! I have mixed feelings about Finley, and don't know what to think of him... sometimes he doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer (to put it bluntly :lol and appeared rather desperate in his attempts to snag the Beatles for an appearance... but I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to refuse his offer of $150,000... Somehow I get the feeling he was a source of amusement to the Beatles, because of his desperation, it's difficult to put into words.... I feel his motivation to get them to KC was that he was desperate to save his professional baseball team, the KC Athletics, which was losing a lot of games and suffering from poor ticket sales. Still don't understand his reasoning though, about how the Beatles in KC would help him out...., And just think LadyLeslie, all of The Beatles KC 64 began with Finley's daughter wanting to see The Beatles but weren't coming to KC!
Yeah, forgot about that
For the money he spent, hopefully she was able to get their autographs and a photo -
LadyLeslie:
jl4761:
LadyLeslie:
Hi there jl4761!
2: good to see you! How are you? Thanks for your post, and for bumping up the Beatles in KC thread Always enjoy talking with you about their 1964 KC visit I still need to get the book and CD you mentioned! I have mixed feelings about Finley, and don't know what to think of him... sometimes he doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer (to put it bluntly :lol and appeared rather desperate in his attempts to snag the Beatles for an appearance... but I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to refuse his offer of $150,000... Somehow I get the feeling he was a source of amusement to the Beatles, because of his desperation, it's difficult to put into words.... I feel his motivation to get them to KC was that he was desperate to save his professional baseball team, the KC Athletics, which was losing a lot of games and suffering from poor ticket sales. Still don't understand his reasoning though, about how the Beatles in KC would help him out...., And just think LadyLeslie, all of The Beatles KC 64 began with Finley's daughter wanting to see The Beatles but weren't coming to KC!
Yeah, forgot about that
For the money he spent, hopefully she was able to get their autographs and a photo For the money Finley spent, Finley's daughter should have hung out with all four of them for a day!
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jl4761:
LadyLeslie:
jl4761:
LadyLeslie:
Hi there jl4761!
2: good to see you! How are you? Thanks for your post, and for bumping up the Beatles in KC thread Always enjoy talking with you about their 1964 KC visit I still need to get the book and CD you mentioned! I have mixed feelings about Finley, and don't know what to think of him... sometimes he doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer (to put it bluntly :lol and appeared rather desperate in his attempts to snag the Beatles for an appearance... but I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to refuse his offer of $150,000... Somehow I get the feeling he was a source of amusement to the Beatles, because of his desperation, it's difficult to put into words.... I feel his motivation to get them to KC was that he was desperate to save his professional baseball team, the KC Athletics, which was losing a lot of games and suffering from poor ticket sales. Still don't understand his reasoning though, about how the Beatles in KC would help him out...., And just think LadyLeslie, all of The Beatles KC 64 began with Finley's daughter wanting to see The Beatles but weren't coming to KC!
Yeah, forgot about that
For the money he spent, hopefully she was able to get their autographs and a photo For the money Finley spent, Finley's daughter should have hung out with all four of them for a day!
Hope she at least got a nice photo with them!
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LadyLeslie:
jl4761:
LadyLeslie:
jl4761:
LadyLeslie:
Hi there jl4761!
2: good to see you! How are you? Thanks for your post, and for bumping up the Beatles in KC thread Always enjoy talking with you about their 1964 KC visit I still need to get the book and CD you mentioned! I have mixed feelings about Finley, and don't know what to think of him... sometimes he doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer (to put it bluntly :lol and appeared rather desperate in his attempts to snag the Beatles for an appearance... but I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to refuse his offer of $150,000... Somehow I get the feeling he was a source of amusement to the Beatles, because of his desperation, it's difficult to put into words.... I feel his motivation to get them to KC was that he was desperate to save his professional baseball team, the KC Athletics, which was losing a lot of games and suffering from poor ticket sales. Still don't understand his reasoning though, about how the Beatles in KC would help him out...., And just think LadyLeslie, all of The Beatles KC 64 began with Finley's daughter wanting to see The Beatles but weren't coming to KC!
Yeah, forgot about that
For the money he spent, hopefully she was able to get their autographs and a photo For the money Finley spent, Finley's daughter should have hung out with all four of them for a day!
Hope she at least got a nice photo with them!
You figured that if she did get some photos with the band, they would have been posted on the internet such as Facebook by now.
