RISK TO BEATLES
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) CINCINATTI (Ohio), Aug. 21. The Beatles, mobbed in Manila and denounced from the pulpit in America’s deep south “Bible , belt,” were threatened with electrocution in Cincinnati last night. Their open-air onenight stand. in a Cincinnati baseball park was
called off because It was feared it might be dangerous for them to play electric guitars in a downpour.
So after a two-hour wait 15,000 disappointed fans went home with rain streaming from their hair. The Beatles will give the postponed concert this afternoon.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31144, 22 August 1966, Page 13
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88RISK TO BEATLES Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31144, 22 August 1966, Page 13
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