The telegram came back within a couple of days saying, "Beatles now coming to Adelaide." And that was just fabulous news. Get some signatures together? We got 80,000 signatures in about three weeks, which was just marvellous. And I thought, is it worthwhile asking on air why don't we get some signatures together. And so when we had the information that The Beatles weren't coming to South Australia, that really got me mad. They had five number one hits in the Top 40 chart. The excitement of The Beatles was just amazing. And we worked out that through the power of radio, we could change the course of history. The bad news is they weren't coming to Adelaide and I had to get a little help from my friends.
You know, in 1964 I was working as a disc jockey, I had a bit more hair in those days, and we had some fabulous news - The Beatles were coming to Australia. Francis recalls in an interview at the Australian Broacasting Commision. Originally they were going to miss Adelaide however DJ Bob Francis (now a shock jock) saw fit to arrange a little bit of a detour from their Eastern Australian gigs. They really give a feel of the madness and mayhem that surrounded the Fab Four's whirlwind tour of South Australia.
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Hayward picked up a series of photos at Christies and Sothebys auction houses of the Adelaide concert. Picked up a copy of Mark Haywards " The Beatles in Australia" which should be named "The Beatles in Adelaide".