I quickly hurried in, past this week’s artist’s publicity pictures, and bought the cheapest ticket at $2. Jive Five, Jean Wells, The Spinners, the Delfonics and topping the bill: JERRY BUTLER. I read the following names on the classic marquee outside: Time was around three o’clock in the afternoon. I was in front of the Apollo Theatre on 125 th Street.
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Many were half asleep and stood perfectly still except that their heads nodded occasionally, at this meeting place for junkies. A single luxury sports car slid slowly by.Įighty blocks and a couple of hours later, I passed through people standing outside the Apollo on the sidewalk all the way up to the corner. Water hydrants had been opened and acted as public showers. Nobody cared that a white guy was moving in on prohibited territory. Many sad and hungover people were in a state of shock on Lenox Avenue. Three months earlier, Martin Luther King had been assassinated. Robert Kennedy had been shot a few days before, and was buried today. I loved it – and soon found myself on the other side of the park.
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Everyone there cyclists, thick girls and baseball players of different skin colours merged into it.
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The sun was at its zenith and the park was full of people.The notes from the Intruders’ “ Cowboys to Girls” (a Gamble and Huff song) found its way from a transistor radio.The wind and the distance prolonged the interval between voices and accompaniment into a cosmic back beat. As an avid reader of boxing oracle Nat Fleischer’s columns in Swedish newspapers and his book 50 Years at Ringside I stopped again for a minute of silence and reflection before I continued to Central Park. I passed by Madison Square Garden.The debris from a huge boxing gala lay in droves on the sidewalk.
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The early summer sun was filtering through the glass windows on a few guests. The champ had not yet turned up to welcome his patrons. I stopped outside Jack Dempsey’s bar in Times Square.
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I soon found myself walking in the direction of Harlem. Despite very little sleep I didn’t stay there long. It was two hours late and through a student counsellor I got the address to a cheap hotel – The Times Square Motor Hotel on 8 th Avenue and 43 rd Street. On June 9th, a Sunday morning, the plane landed at Kennedy Airport. Lennon had to wait until 1971 to debut there. At the same time Tom Jones (in the audience) was invited by Chuck Jackson to join him at the Apollo stage.
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George Harrison was a true soul-connoisseur and voted for Bob and Earl’s “ Harlem Shuffle as Record” of the Year in Record Mirror’s yearly poll (1964/65). Then the Beatles arrived and when exiting the airplane in England, George Harrison carried a Major Lance album under his arm while John Lennon praised soul singer Timmy Shaw’s “ Gonna Send You Back To Georgia” when the group was a guest with Swedish Radio host Klas Burling. No one is going to notice them when James Brown comes out on the other half.”Įlvis visited The Apollo Theatre, with Bo Diddley headlining, at his first time in New York when signing a contract with RCA Records. The Rolling Stones were completely ecstatic and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards allegedly said these famous words after seeing the Hardest Working Man in Show business, “You can put Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard on one half of the stage. Artists were given a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to The Apollo Theatre. The English weekly music newspapers Record Mirror, New Musical Express and Melody Maker reported about the British invasion in USA in 1964-65.