The Beatles New Zealand Tour 1964

Fifty years ago tomorrow The Beatles touched down in New Zealand and Beatlemania gripped the country. Read more Audio

Radio New Zealand reporter Christopher Gilbert talks to John Lennon's second cousin Lynda Mathews of Upper Hutt, about the day she met her famous relation, fifty years ago. Read more Audio

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles arrived in Wellington for their one and only tour of New Zealand. Reporter Christopher Gilbert tracks down a local family connection, John Lennon's… Read more Audio

Tomorow is the 50th anniversay of the Beatles' arrival in Wellington for their one and only tour of New Zealand. During a media conference George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon spoke to New… Read more Audio

Music writers Chris Bourke and Redmer Yska talk to Wallace Chapman about the Beatles tour of New Zealand 50 years ago. Yska and Bourke were young Wellingtonians at the time and they say the 1964 tour… Read more Audio

In June 1964 the Beatles came to New Zealand. Pete Sinclair and Doreen observed Beatlemania first hand outside the St George Hotel where the hordes waited for a glimpse of the Fab Four. Read more Audio