The Beatles February 1964

Title: Live In Washington, District Of Columbia
Type: Concert Film
Filming Location: Washington Coliseum, Washington, District Of Columbia
Filming Date: February 11th 1964
Broadcast Date: March 14th & 15th 1964 (cinema release); November 16, 2010 (iTunes complete concert)
Country Of Broadcast: USA (Original); Worldwide (iTunes)
Duration: 33:00 Minutes (Original); 41:05 Minutes (iTunes)
Quality: C- (original) A- (itunes)
Notes: The Beatles took to the stage at 8.31pm, and performed 12 songs: "Roll Over Beethoven", "From Me To You", "I Saw Her
Standing There", "This Boy", "All My Loving", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Please Please Me", "Till There Was You", "She Loves You",
"I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Twist And Shout" and "Long Tall Sally".

Because the venue was used usually for boxing matches the lads performed "in the round" and therefore had to rotate all their
equipment, including Ringo`s drums, after every couple of songs so that all four sides of the audience could see them from
front on - an unique experience that only ever occurred at this venue.

The concert that night at the Washington Coliseum was also filmed by CBS for two days of screenings in American cinemas in March advertised as "The Beatles First American Concert".

The film was a "closed circuit telecast" meaning it was simultaneously beamed to theaters through telephone lines a total of
four times over the two days.The film also included unrelated concert footage of The Beach Boys and Lesley Gore as well. The
copies seen in cinemas for some unknown reason were missing part of "Twist and Shout" and all of the final number "Long Tall Sally".

Luckily in the 90`s the original 2` master tape was found and eventually it was purchased by Apple who issued the complete
concert, with the previously missing songs, exclusively on iTunes in 2010.This complete concert has not yet been officially
issued on DVD or Bluray although 3 songs from the concert were included on Apple`s "The Beatles First US Visit" DVD in 2004.The
missing song "Long Tall Sally" was also used in one of the EPK`s for "The Beatles Anthology" in 1995.