The Day the Cavern Spawned a Cyclone

5th June 1963, Leeds Odeon

The air in Leeds was thick with more than just the usual Yorkshire grit on this particular Wednesday evening. Inside the art deco splendour of the Odeon Cinema on The Headrow, something resembling mass hysteria was brewing—though nobody quite knew what to call it yet. The term 'Beatlemania' wouldn't be coined by the Daily Mirror until October, but by God, you could smell it in the stale cigarette smoke and hear it in the piercing screams that would soon drown out any attempt at actual musical appreciation.