AS teenage girls queue up to scream at One Direction at The Hydro this week in Glasgow, they should know that their grandmothers were doing something similar at Glasgow's Odeon in 1964 when the Beatles were playing. As this young woman is helped away after collapsing with the excitement of it all, the face of the first aider on the left suggests she was not the first to do so, and his back is probably giving him gyp.
When the Fab Four played their first chord, the continuous screaming meant almost no one in the audience could actually hear anything they played, but did it matter. The only other danger was dodging the Jelly Babies which were thrown towards the stage after a Beatle incautiously said in an interview that they enjoyed eating them.
Oh and the reason they were playing in a cinema is that it was in the days before they were chopped up into a dozen screens, and could actually seat some 6000 fans - about half what the Hydro holds.
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