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Beatles fans in the rain outside the Sheraton Motor Inn, Potts Point 11 June 1964

By
Jack Hickson
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[d7_16579 / APA 16579]
(Mitchell Library)

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Hickson, Jack

State Library of New South Wales

The Beatles in Sydney

The Beatles visit to Sydney in 1964 was a cultural phenomenon. Greeted at the airport by adoring fans, they went on parade in the city and entertained the media, before touring Adelaide and Melbourne. On their return they performed six concerts at the Sydney Stadium in Rushcutters Bay.

Adolescence

Women

Music

Weather

Potts Point

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Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the locality of Kings Cross.

The Beatles

English rock band formed in Liverpool, which became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.

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