The Beatles headline NME Poll-Winners’ All-Star Concert 60 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1965)


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(Sunday, April 11, 1965, 3:15-4:40 p.m. BST) — The Beatles topped the bill this afternoon at the 1964-65 New Musical Express Annual Poll-Winners’ All-Star Concert at the Empire Pool in Wembley in London.


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They performed five songs before 10,000 people: I Feel Fine, She’s A Woman, Baby’s In Black, Ticket To Ride and Long Tall Sally. The performance was broadcast on ABC’s Pollwinners’ Concert in Britain on Apr. 18, 1965.

Also on the bill: The Moody Blues, Freddie and the Dreamers, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, The Seekers, Herman’s Hermits, The Ivy League, Sounds Incorporated, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, The Rolling Stones, Cilla Black, Donovan, Them, The Searchers, Dusty Springfield, The Animals and The Kinks.

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