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In the summer of 1965, 17-year-old Bill Carlson was not really a fan of the Beatles.

"I was a geek," he said with a laugh. "A 60 geek who loved jazz and classical photography, a combination that ensures you never get a date."

But when press credentials for the Beatles concert at the forthcoming local Metropolitan Stadium arrived at Merle Morris Studios where Carlson worked as a photographer part time, he accepted the assignment, mostly because nobody else wanted.

"For me it was just another thing to photograph," said Carlson.

Forty years later, Carlson reviewed the images he captured August 21, 1965, and collected 140 of them in "The Beatles: A-One Night Stand in the Heartland" (Cumberland House, $ 29.95) , an album of that day also includes interviews with people who interacted with the Beatles, newspapers clippings and stories of a few tens of thousands of fans who descended on the stage to scream along with what would become one of, if not the, biggest rock bands of all time. To see these pictures Beatles go to www.f-StopProductions. com

And oh, how those children cried.

"It was total chaos," said Larry Kane, a former journalist from Philadelphia who traveled with the Beatles on the 62-concert tour stop in 1964 and 1965. "(At the time), American women were not supposed to express their emotions in public. And it was an outpouring that was completely open, like, 'I can not take it anymore! I love you! Each and every one of them thought the Beatles

singing directly to them. After each show, they would be forced to clean the sweat, tears, handkerchiefs and tissues. It was madness. "

Carlson took the experience from the fans until the group arrived at the airport to the madness of the actual performance. Most of the photographs in the book, however, document the local press conference.

"They were so freaked out to have a riot, they overcontrolled the concert," said Carlson. "Security was very tight, and there were


allowed on the field, but the band. But the press conference was much more loose and fun. The Beatles came in a very hostile environment, but they stepped up to the plate and have been wonderful, dynamic and funny. "

To get an idea of the level of hostility, just read the press reports, included in the book. The Pioneer Press has called the group "strange people from another world 'and' presumed musicians."

The Minneapolis Tribune, meanwhile, issued a sordid story of young women trying to break into hotel rooms Beatles which included the revelation that at least one was a welcome guest of Paul McCartney: "Acting on the information McCartney had a girl in her room (the police) asked for input ... (and said McCartney), it

would be imprisoned unless the girl was out of the room in two minutes. (Fortunately for all, "blonde girl" has emerged with evidence that it was 21 years old, and nobody was arrested.)

Kane has been warned against chaos before joining the tour: "My father took me aside and said," Watch Your Back. They are a menace to society. "

One of Carlson's favorite photos from that day shows a policeman knocking on the band as if they were escaped convicts. But after this press conference, Carlson said, the Fab Four managed to get some opinions.

"They had a relaxed attitude, how they respond to stupid questions about their hair," said Carlson. "They did a fabulous job of disseminating some of this anger. I think that by the end of the press conference, everyone loved it. "

And these are pictures of The Beatles very charming old crust reporters that Kane has made the book so special.

"I was amazed when I saw the collection of Bill i.