It was 50 years ago Sunday that a little band known as The Beatles arrived on the Ed Sullivan Show to perform for the first time in North America.
A few months later, The Beatles performed two concerts at Olympia Stadium in Detroit on Sept. 6, 1964. It was here that a young photographer fresh on the Windsor-Detroit scene, got the chance to not only snap pictures of the Fab Four, but also got to sit down and chat with the group that would forever change the music industry.
"I witnessed 14,000 at the old Olympia Stadium,” says photographer Spike Bell. “The women. The young kids. They went nuts!”
For Bell, the 50 year anniversary of the Ed Sullivan performance, it reminds him of the time they played in the heart of Motor City. Bell claims all members of the band were humble and eager to meet people.
"Ringo was very reserved, but John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all talked, but they sort of did their thing!"
The Beatles would play the Olympia two more times in 1966.
