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The Beatles were the very first Merseyside pop group to have played at North Wale's one time prestigious Nightpot, the crowd - pulling Prestatyn Royal Lido on November 24, 1962.In 1991 The Lido was refurbished and renamed The Nova.Admission on the door the night The Beatles played was six shillings (30p) and for their two hour performance they were paid the princely sum of £30 having in the previous month released their first record Love Me Do, which reached No.17 in the charts.
It wasn't until their first number one record Please Please Me in 1963 that Beatlemania gripped Britain and later the whole world.Alan Veech The Lido's head chef recalls The Beatles asking for something to eat before going on stage, and craved for their northern delicacy, which was promptly served, a plateful of jam sandwiches!
Having relished an evening of music with The Beatles and a few hundred other screaming girls, four Rhyl girls, Joan Cummins, Shirley Lloyd, Gill Griffiths and Mavis Dyson had unfortunately missed the special laid-on bus back to Rhyl, and saw The Beatles and Cynthia Lennon loading up their van following their evenings performance.
In desperation one of the girls Shirley Lloyd shouted to them, "any chance of a lift? wev'e missed the last bus home to Rhyl!"As John and Paul walked over,and with tears in her eyes, Shirley shouted again "any chance of a lift home to Rhyl?" to which John guips, "those are not tears they are warts" provoked by his reply Shirley tells John "I'm not going to buy your record now!" John then informs Shirley with his usual comic flair "that's ok i've bought five thousand copies myself."Paul Mcartney standing next to John Lennon asks Gill Evans "which one of you is miss Rhyl?" Gill recalls telling the one with the black hair, which they all had
Following their pleasurable exchange of witty remarks, John and Paul returned to loading the van, while the girls were left stranded untill The Lido manager Fred Jackson locking up the building saw the girls and offered them a lift along the long and winding road home.
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