The Beatles - The Royal Variety Performance - Nov 4, 1963 (full concert)

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The Royal Variety Performance is a gala evening held annually in the United Kingdom, which is attended by senior members of the British Royal Family, usually the reigning monarch. In more recent years Queen Elizabeth II and The Prince of Wales have alternately attended the performance. The evenings performances showcases a variety of family entertainment, including comedy, singing, dance, magic and other speciality acts, with many of the performers and hosts being popular celebrities—a variety show. The event is organised on behalf of the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund of which Queen Elizabeth is patron. All proceeds are donated to the fund.

The performance is televised to the public and is considered by many to be a tradition of the Christmas season, being held late in November, or early in December. The responsibility of producing and broadcasting the performance is shared alternately between the BBC and ITV and it is now traditional for the BBC to stage the performance in London's West End, with ITV using other regional theatres outside of London.

The performance is a New Year's tradition in Norway, where it is broadcast at 00:00 on 1 January. Several other European countries also broadcast the show.

The first performance, on 1 July 1912 was called the Royal Command Performance, and this name has persisted informally for the event. This was held in the Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary. The king said he would attend a once-yearly variety show, provided the profits went to the Variety Artistes' Benevolent Fund, as the EABF was then known. This first staging was a lavish occasion, and the theatre was lavishly decorated with roses.

The organisers did not invite Marie Lloyd, one of the most famous music hall artists of the time, because of a professional dispute. Her act was considered too risque and her three public, unsuccessful marriages deemed her unfit to perform in front of royalty. She held a rival performance in a nearby theatre, which she advertised was "by command of the British public". The name of the event was changed to prevent possible royal embarrassment. The Royal Variety became an annual event at the suggestion of King George V from 1921.

The show was frequently staged in the London Palladium theatre, and in the 1950s and 1960s a television show based on the same idea, called Sunday Night at the London Palladium and hosted by many entertainers including Bruce Forsyth, ran for over 20 years. Production and broadcast of the show traditionally alternates each year between the BBC and ITV, with the BBC staging the show in a West End theatre, and ITV staging the show in regional theatres outside London.

Almost every conceivable sort of act has at one time or another been presented to the monarch at the Royal Command Performance, including The Beatles in 1963, The Supremes in 1968 and The Blue Man Group in 2005. At the Beatles' show on 4 November 1963, John Lennon delivered a line to the well-heeled audience which has passed into legend: "For our last number I'd like to ask your help: Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery ..."

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[MsNoWayItsAllGood]

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery ..."

haha love this 4 guys *_* <3

[cluciano63]

Queen has a sense of humor lol

[LickMrAss]

7:51 - expensive seats

7:55 - expensive seats

7:58 - cheap seats

[47midnight]

the funny thing is in the royal variety performance, there were no cheap seats

[roquecloclo]

Thank you for this, and thank you Paul for singing and pronouncing words properly unlike today lot, "I never heard them AT ALL till there was you"that would be ADDALL NOWADAYS

[konstanz2012]

Perfect!!!

[Niravagulabo1]

Amei. Muito Grata. Especial no tempo que foi este arroubo contra o convencional : "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery ..."