Up On The Roof - Beatles 40th Anniversary at 3 Savile Row

[ajay999999]

Man just to be on that roof

[SuperRobertoboy]

He should have been sacked for failing to arrest those bums.

[jsteelman1000]

Hello great vid got a question how did they manage to get all that equipment on the roof ? up the stairs or some other way ? when the Beatles played there ?

[gordonowen1]

They were memorable days not just in terms of this special event but of the whole attitude I those days which was one of respect and yo some extent discipline with travel on the Underground not the hustle and bustle that this generation how down become accustomed to, wags were weekly, mini skirts era, and punctuality was a must.

[gordonowen1]

It is unfortunate that there is no plaque to mark that the Beetles were even at this location. They would be there regularly and I vividly recall John Lennon used to park his car outside – a pale green Rolls Royce silver cloud with very dark tinted widows and a ‘V; aerial on the front centre of the roof.

[wanderer1955]

@gordonowen1 There is indeed a Plaque to mark this place. It has a green background with white lettering. I have a photo of myself holding this Plaque. INSIDE number 3 Savile Row ( Apple ) Unfort, this is where the good news ends. This plaque is going up on the wall of the building, but god knows when.

[gordonowen1]

Unfortunately, in those days we did not have mobiles, let alone ones with built in camera or video so regrettably was never able to record the events as we might these days.

[gordonowen1]

Interestingly enough when I think back, despite the fame and popularity of the Beetles, their front entrance was not generally shrouded by hundreds of fans and was relatively quite, unlike what we might of expected with hundreds of women outside waiting to catch a glimpse and get their autographs!

[gordonowen1]

At the time I had no ides of chaos the gig had on Regent Street & Piccadilly until a few ears later when I saw a film, which showed this. There was a rumour that there had been complains, not east from the Civil Service office down the other end of the road in Saville Row.

[gordonowen1]

It was a warm afternoon and it was common for staff in many of the adjacent bullrings to sit in the sun on the rooftop to simply sunbath and relax doing breaks. I, with other staff, were alerted by our messenger that the Beetles were setting up on the Roof so a number of us went up to see what was happening.

The rooftops were rather precarious – days before Health & safety and the divides between each building block and edges, as I recall were simply protected but scoffed frames.

[gordonowen1]

I was there when the Beetles did their unexpected Roof Top gig at 5 Saville Row. I started my career with gap year and was working for an oil pipes design company in what was then called Gosham House, 7-8 Saville Row, W1.

[cubsin4]

I've been a policeman for almost 30 years and I often wondered if i was dispatched to the roof top on that day what would I have done? Simple, I would have requested an encore. I've often wondered, what ever happen to the brass plaque the read "APPLE" that was posted to the left of the front door to #3 Savile Row?

[gordonowen1]

I was next door at 7-8 Saville Row (then called Gosham House) on the Roof when this all happened and saw it face-to-face live!!!

[aarfeld]

@gordonowen1: Gordon, tell us more of your impressions of that day.

[ellonysman]

What did Brian do when he was up there forty years ago? What jobs were they into?

[hilarioph]

You can watch the Beatles on the roof top. On the Related videos

[seanskell]

just been there today,wish i could have gone in

was this ken stott, princess dianas bodygaurd?

[dadgenius]

"We was'nt going to stop the greatest band in the world!".This made me cry.That day, they we're just a band playing. Bravo, guys, bravo!!1