Looking Back: The Beatles 'invaded' Oregon in 1965. Here is how it looked
The headline read “Portland Overcome by Noise, Hair as the Beatles Invade.”
Reporter Ron Abell and photographer Wayne Eastburn covered the excitement in Portland for The Register-Guard on Aug. 22, 1965.
The Beatles played two shows at Memorial Coliseum to less-than-full houses for each performance, according to the article.
But, “Beatlemania conquered everything Sunday,” Abell wrote.
“Screams, unmeasurable in decibels and unheard in the Northwest at least since the Whitman massacre, filled the Coliseum,” he wrote.
The Fab Four hosted a press conference with media and a handful of young fans who managed to get into the room while enduring questions from the media like, “Are you Communists?”
Answer? “You’re joking. We’re capitalists, boy. We want to keep it coming in.”
Contact photographer Chris Pietsch at chris.pietsch@registerguard.com, or follow him on Twitter @ChrisPietsch and Instagram @chrispietsch
This article originally appeared on Register-Guard: Looking back at The Beatles 1965 concert in Portland, Oregon
