What was a tradition the beatles did on tour?

Answer 1

The Beatles got tired of touring not long after they became the headliners. They were disappointed at not being able to hear themselves onstage, for all the fans screaming, and knew nobody else could hear them either. (This is the reason only one live Beatles album, The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl, was officially issued; other shows were recorded, but not considered fit to release. John Lennon remarked "We knew they were f***ing it up on the tape anyway.")

The band also grew tired of having to meet the local mayor and his children, members of the press hanging around, and the countless handicapped people brought backstage to meet them ("Were we supposed to touch them and cure them, or something?!"). "Cripples" became the band's code word to their road managers, to clear the dressing rooms of people.

Women were in abundance backstage; road managers Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans would comb the audience during shows, looking for girls whose looks would appeal to individual Beatles, and invite them back. A few times, prostitutes were hired to keep the band company after shows, or they would visit a brothel. Lennon was once photographed crawling from an Amsterdam brothel, after a night of debauchery, and he later compared the Beatles' tours to Federico Fellini's movie Satyricon.

Answer 2

On tour, the Beatles always did something special after each song: holding their guitar with one hand, they all bowed at the same time for about six seconds.