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[edit] General

English speaking nation in the Southern Hemisphere.

[edit] Australian Beatles Albums

The Beatles studio albums were identical in track listing, artwork and release dates to the Parlaphone releases in the United Kingdom with two exceptions:

  • With The Beatles featured different artwork due to technical difficulties encountered at the local pressing
  • Beatles For Sale featured different artwork using photographs taken on the Beatles 1964 tour of Australia.

In addition to the album releases, Australians were able to purchase four greatest hits compilations released during the Beatles recording career.

[edit] Greatest Hits Volume One (released August 16th 1966)

Side One

  1. Please Please Me
  2. From Me To You
  3. She Loves You
  4. I'll Get You
  5. I Want To Hold Your Hand
  6. Love Me Do
  7. I Saw Her Standing There

Side Two

  1. Twist And Shout
  2. Roll Over Beethoven
  3. All My Loving
  4. Hold Me Tight
  5. Can't Buy Me Love
  6. You Can't Do That
  7. Long Tall Sally

[edit] Greatest Hits Volume 2 (Released February 16th 1967)

Side One

  1. A Hard Day's Night
  2. Boys
  3. I Should Have Known Better
  4. I Feel Fine
  5. She's A Woman
  6. Till There Was You
  7. Rock and Roll Music

Side Two

  1. Anna (Go To Him)
  2. Ticket To Ride
  3. Eight Days A Week
  4. Help!
  5. Yesterday
  6. We Can Work It Out
  7. Day Tripper

[edit] The Essential Beatles (released February 2nd 1972)

Side One

  1. Love Me Do
  2. Boys
  3. Long Tall Sally
  4. Honey Don't
  5. PS I Love You
  6. Baby You're A Rich Man
  7. All My Loving
  8. Yesterday
  9. Penny Lane

Side Two

  1. Magical Mystery Tour
  2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  3. With A Little Help From My Friends
  4. All You Need Is Love
  5. Something
  6. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  7. Let It Be

[edit] The Number Ones (Released 1983)

Side One

  1. I Want To Hold Your Hand
  2. I Saw Her Standing There
  3. Cant' Buy Me Love
  4. A Hard Day's Night
  5. I Should Have Known Better
  6. Ticket To Ride
  7. Help!
  8. We Can Work It Out
  9. Nowhere Man
  10. Yellow Submarine
  11. Penny Lane

Side Two

  1. All You Need Is Love
  2. Hello, Goodbye
  3. Lady Madonna
  4. Hey Jude
  5. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  6. Get Back
  7. The Ballad of John & Yoko
  8. Something
  9. Let It Be

Bonus EP

  1. Love Me Do
  2. I Feel Fine
  3. Rock and Roll Music

[edit] Australian Chart Positions (according to Go-set magazine)

(No data is available for releases prior to 1965)


[edit] Australian Beatles singles and EPs

All Australian released singles and EP’s including their Australian chart peak positions (where known). All releases are official Parlaphone/Apple releases except where noted.


[edit] Chart Trivia

  • In 1964 The Beatles spent 39 weeks in the number one spot.
  • The Beatles monopolized the top spot for 24 straight weeks from December 28th 1963 to June 6th 1964.
  • The Beatles are the artist with the most number one hits in Australia. Their 23 number ones is almost double Elvis Presley who is second on the list with 12.
  • The Beatles hold the record for the most successive number one hits with 7 in a row.
  • Hey Jude is the equal second place holder (with Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolie) for most weeks at number one (13 weeks). The first place holder is Abba with Fernando (14 weeks).
  • The Beatles are the artist with the longest cumulative weeks at number one (101 weeks).
  • The Beatles were beaten to the number one spot in the Australian music charts by Gerry And The Pacemakers who took How Do You Do It (which was rejected as a single by the Beatles) to number one on March 6th 1963.


[edit] The Beatles 1964 tour of Australia

The Beatles one and only tour of Australia took place in 1964. In all they spent 15 days in Australia in two stages (with a brief visit to New Zealand in the middle).

The Beatles tour of Australia was secured by Melbournian Kenn Brodziak who met with Brian Epstein on a talent scouting visit to England in July 1963 before Beatlemania had exploded. Brodziak and Epstein made a verbal contract to bring the group (which at the time had enjoyed no chart success at all in Australia) for a tour at the price of 1,500 pounds a week. Despite being offered many times more than this amount once the Beatles became a world-wide success, Epstein honoured his verbal agreement and signed a contract on the 10th of January 1964. Brodziak’s luck is widely regarded as the greatest coup in Australian entertainment history.

[edit] Timeline

June 11- Arrive in Sydney (after a brief stopover in Darwin)
June 12th Arrive in Adelaide.
June 14th Arrive in Melbourne.
June 18th Arrive in Sydney.
June 21st Leave for New Zealand.
June 28th Arrive in Sydney for a change of flight.
June 29th Arrive in Brisbane.
July 1st Leave Australia for London.

[edit] Performance Dates

June 12th Two shows at Centennial Hall, Adelaide (with Jimmy Nicol on drums).
June 13th Two shows at Centennial Hall, Adelaide (With Jimmy Nicol on drums).
June 15th Two shows at Festival Hall (Melbourne), Melbourne.
June 16th Two shows at Festival Hall (Melbourne), Melbourne.
June 17th Two shows at Festival Hall (Melbourne), Melbourne.
June 18th Two shows at Sydney Stadium, Sydney.
June 19th Two shows at Sydney Stadium, Sydney.
June 20th Two shows at Sydney Stadium, Sydney.
June 29th Two shows at Festival Hall (Brisbane), Brisbane.
June 30th Two Shows at Festival Hall (Brisbane), Brisbane.

The shows were compered by English comedian Alan Field except in Adelaide where the compere was local disc Jockey Bob Francis.

All shows were opened by Australian instrumental group The Phantoms who stayed onstage as the backing group for New Zealander Johnny Devlin and Australian Johnny Chester. Sounds Incorporated ended the first half of the show, the Beatles performed after a brief intermission.

Over 151,000 tickets were sold during the Australian tour.

The June 15th show in Melbourne was Ringo’s return to the drumkit after an absence in which he was replaced by Jimmy Nicol.

John’s Aunt Mimi accompanies the Beatles for the duration of their Australian tour.

For more information see individual entries under separate cities.


[edit] Australians with Beatles Connections

  • Rolf Harris. Comedian and Singer who performed on the same bill with the Beatles and presented the first episode of the BBC radio series From Us to You.
  • Alan Freeman. Disc Jockey from Melbourne known by his nickname “Fluff.” Freeman presented the second and third episodes of From Us To You on BBC Radio and can be heard on The Beatles Live at the BBC.
  • Frank Ifield. Singer usually referred to as Australian despite being born in England. Ifield lived for 16 years in Australia and was a major performing star in the early sixties when the Beatles were rising unknowns.
  • Kenn Brodziak OBE Tour Promoter and the man responsible for bringing the Beatles to Australia in 1964. died June 3rd 1999.
  • Dick Lean, The Beatles stage manager for their Australian tour.


[edit] Sources

  • HARRY B. 1992, The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia, Hyperion
  • MILES, B. 1998, The Beatles, a Diary. Omnibus Press.
  • 2000 The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books.
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