According to "Anthology", it was the debacle in the Philippines that made them decide to stop touring.

Aren't all bombs "cherry" until they explode, at which point it becomes totally irrelevant?

Yoko Ono is probably trying to create a cover story.

/Memphian

What a maddening article. Did he hear an explosion or didn't he? The article is just conjecture based on noting definite apparently.

Some guy is out there is laughing his arse off for a prank he pulled on The Beatles at a concert in Memphis a long time ago.

I heard it was because the drummer sucked.

This thread is useless without live concert recordings.

Wanted for questioning? (^ and not a RR)

kaylward:This thread is useless without live concert recordings.

You're in luck. Someone was at the Memphis show with a cell phone camera.(new window)

Delawheredad:What a maddening article. Did he hear an explosion or didn't he? The article is just conjecture based on noting definite apparently.

FTFA: However, once we get to If I Needed Someone, swagger turns to humility mighty fast. Someone does indeed set off a cherry bomb, or some kind of backyard explosive, and the men of the moment blast off into double-time, Lennon positively flogging his rhythm guitar.

What do you expect? America killed kennedy not to long before. At then end of the day, lennon still got shot.

The crackers were supposedly gunning for John Lennon. But, The Beatles WERE bigger than Jesus.

I thought this was old news. I think I heard this years ago.


Or maybe I dreamed the whole thing?

Very old news. It was in Bob Spitz's biography of the band.

The Philippines thing was earlier and, though very frightening for them, did not discourage them from touring. But after the cherry bomb (especially scary for them because of the controversy over the "bigger than Jesus" comment), George decided the tour would be their last.

CatfoodSpork:I thought this was old news. I think I heard this years ago.


Or maybe I dreamed the whole thing?

I heard about this a few years ago, when the sisters who recorded it were trying to sell the tape to EMI for some ridiculous sum, not realizing that with file sharing bootlegs are worth less than a wooden nickel these days.