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Michael Palin is a legendary member of the Monty Python troupe, a renowned travel documentarian, a prolific author, a Bafta winner, and he\u2019s also seen The Beatles<\/a> live way before they reached the cult levels of global stardom they\u2019re known for today, truly proving there\u2019s nothing he hasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n The adventure took place at The Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, the seaside town over the river from Liverpool, which, and I\u2019m speaking from dozens of weekends spent frolicking in the mucky sand there, doesn\u2019t quite have the best of British culture to show. <\/p>\n Think more discarded shopping trolleys, pebbledash alleys, and a seagull attacking for a soggy chip or two, none of which clearly didn\u2019t matter to Palin, for, speaking from experience again, New Brighton has a mighty fine entertainment scene. He was accompanied by a close friend to the momentous show, which saw him excited, entering the building which has now been pulled down, and lo and behold, \u201cThere were The Beatles playing, and it was by no means full, and it\u2019s a big place\u201d.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an almost unimaginable reality; forget the halls decked out with bodies accumulating to reach numbers that hit twice the capacity, itching for just a single sight of the star scousers, and instead, in its place, a near-empty ballroom, haunted by that awkward extra space. Surely, at least The Beatles were killing it on stage, but according to Palin, that was not quite the case. <\/p>\n \u201cJohn Lennon was up on stage trying to get a twist competition going, and trying to get girls to come up\u2026 Imagine that! The Beatles trying to get girls to come up on stage?\u201d The erudite frontman, soon to forever become an icon<\/a> with those telltale round glasses, struggling with a simple call-and-response on his home turf is baffling to say the least.<\/p>\n Things went from bad to worse for the band after they lost a key spectator; they struggled to keep Palin\u2019s attention for the entirety of the gig, who, instead, found his eye wandering, confessing that the night didn\u2019t finish like many would\u2019ve hoped. <\/p>\n He added, \u201cAnyway, we watched them for a bit, but we were pursuing two girls ourselves and never really\u2026 I mean, there were The Beatles, yes, they were great, noisy, and that was it. That was my first experience of The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n