This was the first of a 10-week series of seaside concerts for The Beatles. They performed 11 songs: Some Other Guy, Thank You Girl, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Misery, A Taste Of Honey, I Saw Her Standing There, Love Me Do, From Me To You, Baby It's You, Please Please Me and Twist And Shout.
The compere on this evening was Ted Rogers. The Beatles returned to the ABC Cinema on one other occasion, on 28 July 1963. The venue was finally demolished in 1989 to make way for the Market Gates Shopping Precinct.
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