by Robert Wilkinson
Scorpio is about focused intensity, fixed feelings that can get so deep and so intense that it could implode or explode or both in a given moment. Today I found a brief video giving us very real and "up close and personal" glimpses at just such an intensity.
While there's enough hype and myth about the Beatles to fill an aircraft carrier, what they were and what they weren't, a friend of the site sent me a brief clip she knew I'd like. This is a 7+ minute montage of song partials from one show on 27 August 1964 that offers us a real time look at just how intense it was when the Beatles played live. The background sound is one long constant scream. I promise you have never seen sustained explosive intensity like this, especially from 3 minutes into the clip to the end!
The faces on some of these people make me wonder how they survived the experience. It will be worth 7 minutes of your time to see a once in a lifetime series of incredible pictures of human intensity so white hot the people melt down in front of your eyes. This clip is not about the music, but about what that music awakened in the youth of those born in post-WWII England. And the responses and looks on some of the adult faces are really funny!
For your amazement, amusement, and admiration, an astonishing awakening of explosive feelings seldom seen, much less felt. You think you know what intensity is? Welcome to The Beatles Live at Forest Hill
© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson
Hi all - I remembered I did this chart a while back for when John and Paul first met. It seems Scorpio was rising, with Moon conjunct North Node in Scorpio in the first. Check it out if you're so inclined!
The Astrological Chart for when John Lennon met Paul McCartney
Posted by: Robert | October 23, 2013 at 10:57 AM
My lord the Intensity on the faces and bodies of some of those girls is painful to watch. Wow!, that was awesome.
Posted by: mel tucker | October 23, 2013 at 04:42 PM
Whoa! Some of them almost look possessed!
Posted by: Diane S | October 23, 2013 at 05:46 PM
That was awesome. Thanks for the treat and the peek at what it was like then!
Posted by: Sara | October 23, 2013 at 08:43 PM
That was a kick. Thanks.
Posted by: Joy | October 24, 2013 at 06:52 PM
soo funny! great meltdowns. unfornuately today those kids would be dragged to a pysch. unit.
Posted by: cathy | October 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM
I was 12 in 1964 and recall this intensity vividly. We were all responding to something triggered at a soul level; a collective memory of how different the world could be than what we'd known heretofore. The Beatles were a catalyst for that awakening, which helped us find a voice to challenge the status quo for the first time on many issues -- racial justice, women's rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War.
The evocative energy of this clip continues to remind us. Thank you, Robert.
Posted by: Valerie | October 27, 2013 at 08:44 AM