The Beatles’ NZ tour 64: Secrets of a showbiz coup revealed

By Russell Baillie
New Zealand Listener·
6 mins to read

The Beatles’ NZ tour 64: Secrets of a showbiz coup revealed
Thin blue line: Police hold firm as fans crush towards the stage at the Auckland Town Hall. Photo / When We Was Fab: Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964.

New Zealand would have missed out on The Beatles had it not been for the doggedness of people who knew nothing about them.

Looking at it 60 years on, it’s easy to view The Beatles’ June 1964 tour of Australia and New Zealand as a phenomenon of its time. A

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