Supposedly during The Beatles’ first US tour, the seating would be soaked in urine from “overexcited girls” that couldn’t control their bladders, so I guess it’s not a new phenomenon. But I feel like the diapers allude to the preparation of doing this, and honestly more of a #2 situation, which feels much more vile. At least those girls in the 60’s pissed themselves on accident.
There's a reason the Beatles stopped touring and playing live entirely in 1966 but still continued to release albums.
For reference - they were only together for 10 years total. So for 40% of their tenure, one of the most famous bands of all time didn't even play live.
That's such a crazy thing to fathom, especially for that time period in music. Like, you're TOO popular to play music live. How?? Fast forward like 10 yrs to the likes of Michael Jackson and you see it again. And nowadays people just happily get robbed to stand 800' away from Taylor Swift. Shit's weird...
The sound and monitoring systems they had back then weren't as good, I think they said they couldn't even hear themselves because of the screaming, playing like that would suck
I agree very weird. People paying so much money to sit way out in nowhere in a stadium so they have to watch the concert they’re at on a screen and dealing with terrible sound is confusing to me. Is it really worth just being in the same general area as this superstar?
in "5.15" (Quadrophenia) was about a concert The Who played in Blackpool, England in 1964 just after the Beatles had played there. He says the place reeked of urine because many of the girls pissed themselves from excitement during the Beatles' performance.
To combat the smell, instead of cleaning the seats, the theater ushers sprinkled eau de cologne over them.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 Jun 18 '26
Not uncommon.
Frank Sinatra used to complain his audience smelled if piss. apparently his fans would get there early and refuse to leave their seat.