The Beatles March 1965: Filming 'Help' and Getting Spiked With LSD

In March 1965, The Beatles left the studio behind for location filming on their second movie (eventually titled Help!) - starting on the beaches of Nassau and Paradise Island in the Bahamas, then moving to the snowy slopes of Obertauern, Austria, just days after a deadly avalanche struck near their hotel. This episode covers: Skateboarding, schooners, and stoned afternoons on Cabbage Beach and Victoria Beach Rare radio interviews with Dave Hull, Murray the K, Fred Robbins, and Derek Taylor Brian Epstein's Shea Stadium announcement and the scrapped John Lennon spoken-word album The March 2nd Austrian avalanche and its proximity to the Beatles' hotel Fan chaos and "Beatles Go Home" protesters at Salzburg Airport Ski doubles, curling, and the Beatles' Olympic ski instructor Christine Smith An impromptu Hamburg reunion jam with Jacky and the Strangers - one of the last times John, Paul and George jam together in front of an audience. Filming the iconic "Ticket to Ride" sequence in the Austrian Alps Back in London: Twickenham Studios, Pete Shotton's supermarket venture, and a German-language Radio Luxembourg interview Sourced from contemporary interviews, radio broadcasts, and primary documentation as part of the ongoing month-by-month chronological history of The Beatles.