Posted on 08/16/2017 10:08:08 AM PDT by Enchante
The Beatles were always breaking new ground, and on August 15, 1965, they did so again by essentially creating the stadium tour, as detailed in Ron Howards new doc on the bands years on the road, Eight Days a Week.
On that date, the group played before a record crowd of 55,600 at the then-brand new William A Shea Municipal Stadium in Queens, NY. The event was filmed for posterity by their manager, Brian Epstein, and Ed Sullivans Sullivan Productions for a television special, a 30 minute edit of which, representing most of the concert, can be seen exclusively in theatrical showings of Howards film.
We felt it was a great way both Rons film and Shea for both new and veteran fans to see what a great live performing band they were, on a big screen, as it should be, says Jeff Jones, chief executive of The Beatles Apple Corps Ltd. And Shea was zenith of live performance, even according to them.
(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...
No kidding. With him at the helm it will end with every Beatle holding a new puppy and an ice cream cone, and credited with at least one inside-the-park home run.
Outfits looked miserably hot.
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They conditioned themselves by playing in a hot, damp, overcrowded cellar with no windows and only one door.
They did a 13 minute set at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, a building that was originally built for an opera, but quickly abandoned due to lousy acoustics. Fans felt cheated.
George Harrison was always a bad flyer. When they were flying to Portland, an engine on their Electra caught fire while it was on autopilot and the pilots were chatting with John and Paul.
He was the most reluctant tourer after that...
Johnny Holliday, a radio DJ at the time, was one of the MCs at the Shay concert. Today, he is one of the announcers for the Nationals, and he is thus the only direct link that ball club has to the Beatles.
They need a haircut!
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