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The Beatles in Auckland
Television (Full Length) – 1964
...we'd like to thank everybody once again, for this great welcome.– Paul McCartney to the assembled crowd in Auckland
...Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson wanted to give the band an official welcome; there had been one for the Vienna Boys Choir a week earlier, and the following week there would be another for pianist Arthur Rubenstein. The mayor's council wasn't keen, mainly at the cost of 60 pounds to the ratepayers, but also because they didn't approve of The Beatles.– Chris Bourke in an AudioCulture article on the Beatles in New Zealand, 19 June 2014
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