I queued for our tickets for 6 and half hours, it stretched from West Street, past City Hall and right round into the ticket office. I bought 2 tickets for Jean and I, I paid 17s. 6d. each. I have the tickets still kept safe.

There were two performances and we went for the evening one, it was 8:45 start and it finished about half past 10.

I don’t remember any screaming; it was just a normal concert.

I was a tailor at the time, I had won an award for my tailcoats for ballroom dancers. I made a Beatles jacket for my brother who had long black hair just like Paul McCartney. I have a photograph in the family album. [My brother] went on a different night to us but did wear the jacket.

My Dad was a Tailor, Fred Hallam of ‘Fred Ericks Craftsman Tailoring’, when The Beatles and The Rolling Stones came to prominence my Dads’ tailors had a boost because all the boys wanted suits like theirs, Dads would take their sons you see.

My Dad had two workshops, one on Middlewood Road which opened in 1953 and another in Netherthorpe, he had spent time in London as a window dresser, came back to Sheffield working at Barney Goodmans in sales and window dressing. Then he opened his own workshop; he did the adverts, they were quite humorous.

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