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(Credits: Far Out \/ Ingen Uppgift \/ Alamy \/ Bradford Timeline)<\/p>\n
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In September 1963, The Rolling Stones<\/a> were only a few months past the release of their debut single, a cover of Chuck Berry\u2019s \u2018Come On\u2019, and hadn\u2019t yet put out a full-length album. But under the direction of their new 19-year-old manager Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones were already taking shape. He steered them away from the clean-cut look that dominated the pop scene, where bands wore matching suits and moved in sync. Instead, Oldham leaned into their art-school backgrounds and wanted them to feel rougher, more unpredictable. Something to speak to the part of youth culture that didn\u2019t want to behave.<\/p>\n By contrast, the Beatles, only a year removed from their leather-jacket clad brawler days in Hamburg<\/a>, had now adopted a less intimidating, button-up symmetry by the autumn of 1963, following the sage advice of their own baby-faced manager Brian Epstein. The Fab Four were more than a few steps ahead of the Stones at this point when it came to record sales and popularity in the UK, but when their paths crossed on a rare shared bill at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall on September 15th, 1963, it was clear that some friendly battle lines were being drawn on Britain\u2019s pop landscape. Soon, everybody would have to pick their side.\u00a0<\/p>\n As far as the British press was concerned, however, the \u2018Great Pop Prom\u2019, as this Albert Hall concert was called, was a Beatlemania<\/a> gathering, first and foremost. Mick and Keith weren\u2019t yet household names, but every girl in the country had already selected their preference among John, Paul, George and Ringo.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the siege of the Beatle-crushers,\u201d the Daily Mirror reported the next day in its recap of the Great Pop Prom. \u201c6,000 screaming teenagers intent on crushing just four Beatles. Never had the Royal Albert Hall seen scenes quite like it. Even for Britain\u2019s newly-elected top vocal group, the Beatles, it was bewildering.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ Bent Rej \/ Alamy \/ The Beatles \/ The Rolling Stones) <\/p>\n