The Beatles - Twist And Shout [Come To Town, ABC Cinema, Manchester, United Kingdom]

Live: Wednesday 20/11/1963 The Beatles performed two shows at Manchester’s ABC Cinema on the 16th date of their 1963 Autumn Tour. Accompanied with backstage footage and crowd scenes, this became an eight-minute cinema feature entitled The Beatles Come To Town, shown for a week from 22 December 1963. The backstage area was also filmed by a crew from Granada TV, who also interviewed The Beatles about their forthcoming US tour. The footage was first broadcast in the 6 January 1964 edition of Scene At . BBC radio journalist Michael Barton was also at the venue, and interviewed The Beatles for the Voice Of The North show, broadcast on the North Home Service that evening from . Barton also interviewed George Harrison separately for another show, Wacker, Mach Schau, about the links between the Liverpool and Hamburg music scenes, which was broadcast on 27 November from 8pm. This was the first of three occasions on which The Beatles performed at the ABC Cinema. The others were on