Anyone got a spoon for this humble pie? I've had a wee look at the Beatles /Roy Orbison thing and I'm half-right....
The tour started off with the Big O top of the bill but as Beatlemania grew he stepped aside. By the time they were playing Glasgow, the Fabs were top of the bill: George Harrison recalled having to follow after him. See link to a great Beatles site.
Le durachd,
Eddy
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/05/18/ ... y-orbison/"Although Orbison was at the top of the bill, he was soon demoted to second place due to the audience reaction to The Beatles.
We soon took over as top of the bill. We had to come on after Roy. They had a trick in those theatres where they would close some of the curtains on the stage so we could set up behind them while the other bloke was still out there doing his tunes. I can't remember where his backing group was, but Roy would be out there every night and at the end he'd be singing, 'She's walking back to me, do do do do da do do-do...' And the audience would go wild. We'd be waiting there and he'd do another big encore and we'd be thinking, 'How are we going to follow this?' It was really serious stuff.
George Harrison
Anthology"