Crowds for The Rolling Stones at the Palace
Date(s): August 1964
Creator(s): Manx Press Pictures
Scope & Content: #imuseumshowbiz
'IT WAS A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, BUT...
POLICE KEPT CONTROL
AT TEENAGE SHOW
7,000 In Fantastic Scenes at Palace!
In spite of scores of fainting girls and isolated fights, the Rolling Stones pop group did not cause one of their riots in the Palace Ballroom last night – before one of their biggest crowds ever.
A carefully planned anti-riot system by police and Palace and Derby Castle officials held the teenagers in check....
As soon as the curtains went up on the group, the huge crowd surged forward. Almost immediately the crush barrier began to give way. Police officers and attendants immediately jumped on to the stage as a human wedge to hold the barrier up. They stayed like this under the weight of thousands of bodies throughout the Rolling Stones 40 minute show...
Within a few minutes the first of a steady stream of fainting or hysterical girls was hauled bodily back from the crowd and carried backstage for first aid treatment by a strong St John Ambulance Brigade team.
Policemen forced their way into the crowd to try and break up the force of the pressure of the crash barriers...' (Friday 14 August 1964, Isle of Man Times)
Language: eng
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/13633/1/1964/574/2