Klas Burling 0:46
I Saw Her Standing There 2:39
From Me To You 2:06
Money (That's What I Want) 3:02
Roll Over Beethoven 2:11
You Really Got A Hold On Me 3:11
She Loves You 2:30
Twist And Shout 2:51
The Karlaplan studios recordings - 24th of October 1963

At this session The Beatles was supposed to play for an audience so 100 tickets was given away. At least 250 Beatles fans showed up! The panic was close when The Beatles instruments, amplifiers and loudspeakers didn't show up in time. Another musician, Hasse Rosén, offered his equipment to The Beatles. The Beatles, who had a contract with Vox, had to make it on Fender equipment.
Brian Epstein, present during the whole session, was very nervous. The whole session was made in front of an audience, without rehearsal at 17.00. It took 25 minutes to complete an was broadcast for the first time in Swedish radio Monday the 11th of November 1963 between 22.05 and 22.30.

After the concert The Beatles had to leave the studio through the main entrance through the exited audience. There was no stage exit! Without any major problems The Beatles entered a blue Fiat 1500 that was parked outside the studio. Now the problems started. Some fans tried to lift the car in an attempt to get their hands on The Beatles!

The sound engineers nightmare became a success
The Beatles best live recording ever was made in Stockholm 1963. In Sveriges Radios studio at Karlaplan.
- I wasn't satisfied with the sound. But The Beatles were very delighted with the distortion, the technician Hans Westman remembers. Five of the songs that were recorded in Sweden at this occasion is present on the CD "The Beatles Anthology 1".

The 24th of October 1963 the Swedish Radio recorded a concert by The Beatles.
A concert in a crowded Karlaplansstudio. The recording was about to be broadcasted "live" later in the Swedish radio.
The producer Klas Burling (a personal friend of The Beatles) went up on the stage and introduced the new group from Liverpool. And at the same time Hasse Rosén with his "The Northmen". Then The Beatles began to play for an enthusiastic public of mostly teenage girls. When the concert was broadcast in November, the Beatles fever had broken loose. John, Paul, George and Ringo had conquered the whole western part of Europe.
Specifically John Lennon liked the Karlaplan recordings. He often said that the seven songs that they recorded at Karlaplan were the best live recordings that The Beatles ever made, both for the sound as well as for the feeling.
The last statement about this was during an interview made by BBC, just a couple of days before he was so tragically murdered in 1980.
"We love distortion"
- I wasn't satisfied with the recording and I apologised The Beatles for the high distortion. But they seemed very delighted, says Hans Westman, the guy who were Sveriges Radios sound engineer during the recordings.
With the words "We love distortion" John Lennon tried to get Hans Westman in a good temper when they listened to the tapes shortly after the session. The technical equipment in Sveriges Radios studio at Karlaplan was already old and aged way back in 1963. It was made for easy listening programs with talk, singing, harmonica, acoustic guitars and things like that.
- The worst recording I've ever made. Totally chaotic, says Hans Westman.
No time for rehearsals
Quite a big part of the day was offered to try to connect all the cables The Beatles had with English connections, to the Swedish (S-marked - a security code) equipment and electric net.
There was practically no time left for The Beatles to rehearsal or for Hans Westman to calibrate the equipment.
Hans Westman used the microphones he had available. It was some old and aged RCA- and Velocity microphones.
Two of them was used as singing microphones, a third one was in front of Ringo's drums, the fourth by Paul's bass guitar loudspeaker and number five and six was placed in front of George's and John's guitar loudspeakers.
A few microphones were used to pick up the responding sound and the sound from the audience. Totally there were ten microphones. The mixer didn't have room for more.
The amplifiers between the microphones and the mixer were the worst problem. They were made by the Swedish telephone company Televerket, old glass tube amplifiers with an effect of less than 15 watt.
- I lost control over the volume of the sound. The amplifiers couldn't make it when The Beatles started to play.
It was the highest recording level I had seen and certainly the worst distortion I had ever heard, says Hans Westman.
For a Swedish sound engineer the year of 1963, distortion was something you had to avoid by all costs. That was Hans Westman's training, he was not used to record rock and pop music.
- Now, when I've seen the result, I can understand why The Beatles was so delighted. They had, already way back in 1963, started to use the distortion to create a very special sound. Some years later Jimi Hendrix entered the scene and made music out of pure distortion.