''Pop Gear'' (U.S. title: ''Go Go Mania'') is a 1965 British music

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, directed by Frederic Goode, which was released in 1965. It contains live concert footage of

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, and

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ed performances of some of the

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bands, including

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Peter and Gordon Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling "A World Without Love". The duo had several subseq ...

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and

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the Honeycombs The Honeycombs were an English beat group, founded in 1963 in North London, best known for their chart-topping, million-selling 1964 hit, " Have I the Right?" The band featured Honey Lantree on drums, one of the few high-profile female dr ...

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, and the

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. The film is split into two segments: 1964 songs, introduced by

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, who at the time was the host of ''

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'' on the BBC, and 1965 songs, which are merely strung together without intros. The material by the Beatles was lifted from a newsreel short ''The Beatles Come to Town'' (1963). The film was released sometime between January and April 1965, the footage having been filmed in December 1964. Artists and songs in order:

Spanish version

For Spanish-speaking territories, director Anibal Uset shot Spanish introductions by Argentinian stars

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and

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to replace the Jimmy Savile introductions, and that version was released as ''El Rey en Londres''.

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