the Beatles of 13 March 1965 to 21 March 1965 in Obertauern Been to Snow scenes for your film “Help” to turn? Help was the most commercially successful film of the Beatles with 29 million viewers in the first 6 months !!
The Beatles at that time lived and slept in Hotel Edelweiss? Specifically in the rooms 502, 504, 506 and 507 !!
erbert Lürzer Senior has turned double for Sir Paul McCartney, the ski scenes? (The Beatles were so very poorly skiing)
the Beatles the only concert in Austria played in Obertauern? Your assistant director Clive Reed (he lived in Marietta) had a birthday and therefore played in the Beatles there some of your songs.
the Beatles song “Yesterday” for the first time heard on disc in Hotel Edelweiss? “Yesterday” was voted song of the millennium!
the Beatles with 1.5 billion records sold and 27 number 1 hits, the most successful rock band of all time?
almost exactly 50 years ago, the people offered in the small ski village Salzburg Obertauern a strange sight. There stood in March 1965 four long-haired guy from England who were supposedly world famous, shaky on skis when Kirchbühellift around. Wild they waved with ski poles in the air around, they kept upright only with difficulty, and otherwise they seemed pretty clueless. “Help! I need somebody!”
These helpless four, were the Beatles, who had come to Obertauern to here scenes for the film “Help!” to rotate, the German-speaking later with the silly title “Hi – Hi – Help!” was released in theaters. Director was Richard Lester, an expert on comic-absurd Entertainment.
John Lennon was then the only one who had previously ever skied before – in St. Moritz, some teaching hours. So four dashing guys were hired from the area that the English were powerful to the Fab Four to doubeln in those scenes where they should experience their adventures on skis, Herbert Lürzer, Gerhard Krings, Franz Bogensperger and Hans Pretscherer.
Before the camera all have been equipped with long-haired mushroom head wigs. Bogensperger had guests spotted previously in the village. “When I saw her for the first time,” he later recalled, “I exclaimed: ‘Mei, san of schiache wives’ what someone said, ‘What you’re a jerk, those are the Beatles’.”
Cool photos. Awful English translation of captions.