Hundreds of Beatles' fans who spent Saturday night sleeping on the pavement outside Leicester's De Montfort Hall waiting to buy tickets for the Liverpool group's performance in October, might as well have been in bed at home.
Leicester Corporation Entertainment's Manager, Mr Ted Goddard, who is responsible for the sale of tickets, admitted today that he still had between 400 and 500 left.
"All the cheapest tickets and all the most expensive ones were sold yesterday morning, but we still have quite a few left for both houses," he said.
Armed with sleeping bags, coffee flasks, waterproofs and enthusiasm, teenagers began arriving outside De Montfort Hall as early as 6.30pm.
The advertised time for the box office opening had been 9.30am, but on Saturday night, it was decided to advance the time by one hour to enable the teenagers to disperse as soon as possible.
By 10.30am, two hours after the box office opened, most of the fans had dispersed. A few hung about in groups, and one or two, exhausted by the night's vigil, lay down on the grass in Victoria Park and went to sleep.