In scenes reminiscent of the hysteria that met the Beatles wherever they went in the early 1960s, police were called in to control a large crowd of girls who had gathered outside the Hard Days Night hotel where Bieber was staying. The 17-year-old Canadian pop star was in Liverpool ahead of a concert on Friday evening.
Merseyside Police, responsible for Liverpool in northern England, said they were called by hotel security staff early Thursday. They were forced to close a central city street to traffic, and were at the scene for around six hours before the fans eventually left. Bieber took to his Twitter account to communicate with his followers. "This is crazy," he wrote on the social networking site.
"There are like thousands of people out there. Love everybody but gonna try and get some sleep. Please don't scream. lol." A police spokeswoman denied media reports that Bieber had been threatened with arrest if he stepped out on to his hotel balcony to greet the crowd.
