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The opening show, at Shea Stadium in the New York City borough of Queens, on 15 August was record-breaking and one of the most famous concert events of its era. [9] [10] It set records for attendance and revenue generation. Promoter Sid Bernstein said, "Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000, the greatest gross ...
The Beatles held a second successful concert at New York's Shea Stadium, following the world-record attendance they set there in August 1965, although ticket sales were down to 45,000, around 10,000 below the previous year. [82]
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
A new Beatles exhibit shows much more than a day in the life of the Fab Four. “Ladies and Gentlemen...The Beatles!” at the Prudential Center’s Grammy Museum Experience in Newark explores the ...
The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on 15 August 1965, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour. The documentary was directed and produced by Bob Precht (under the Sullivan Productions banner), NEMS Enterprises (which owns the 1965 copyright), and the Beatles ...
Bloomingdale's Proudly Unveils the Exclusive Display of Ringo Starr's "Shea Stadium Drum Kit" Retailer Celebrates Exclusive Beatles Merchandise and the Upcoming 50 th Anniversary of the Iconic ...
Shea Stadium (/ ʃ eɪ / SHAY), formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. [7] Opened in 1964, it was home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1964 to 2008 , as well as the New York Jets of the American Football League (AFL) and ...
On 17 September, the Beatles played in Kansas City's Municipal Stadium to around 20,000 spectators, roughly half the stadium's capacity. [ 34 ] [ 32 ] Breaking with their trend of only playing released material, they covered " Kansas City "/" Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey " to what Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn writes was "an especially uproarious ...