Rosie, George is my favorite Beatle. It was a song that had made the journey with them from teenage social clubs to stadiums: Little Richards Long Tall Sally. It was their showpiece, remaining in their set list almost constantly throughout their career. KFRC began using that format in 1966. And eat your heart out. I ended up meeting Paul, George,Ringo & their producer George Martin. KYA radio was giving away free tickets wich is how I went to the show. Did you keep up with the Beatles after they broke up and Apple dissolved? A concert like that wouldve sold out very quickly! and "Jesus loves you do the Beatles?" Oddly, I couldnt find a lot of information on the history of KYA at that time but we all know how popular it was. Organizers of Greensburg's SummerSounds concert series don't like to book the same act two years in a row. Provided her memory is right, despite the thousands of empty seats, every ticket was sold. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. Its best to remember them still playing. ' The rest, he says, is history. It was Jelly Babies actuallyAnd they happened at many concerts after George mentioned he liked them to a reporter. We couldnt see anything down below, unless you went right over on the edge and looked down. Did you meet them in the summer? I was the MC, and, as any Giants fans will know, Candlestick Park in August, at night, was cold, foggy and windy. The Beatles Final Concert: An Eyewitness Looks Back, Pusha T Linked Up With Phoenix to Drop a New Verse on All Eyes on Me, Yellowjackets Plans Bonus Episode as Season Two Chaser, Hear How Ilsey, Bon Iver Polish Neil Youngs Heart of Gold, Taylor Swift Taps Fall Out Boy, Hayley Williams for 'Speak Now Taylor's Version', Hayley Williams Regrets Shaming Disruptive Fans at Paramore Show: 'I Abused My Responsibility', How the Roots Picnic Became Hip-Hop's Greatest Festival, Rolling Loud Miami 2023 Adds Anuel AA and El Alfa to Lineup, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube to Join Run-D.M.C. I may go next year if they do it again. Were not very good performers, actually. Before one of the last numbers, we actually set up this camera, I think it had a fisheye, a wide-angle lens. We were having to worry about the rain getting in the amps and this took us right back to the Cavern days. The dressing room was chaos. We stopped between tunes, Ringo got down off the drums, and we stood facing the amplifiers with our back to the audience and took photographs. Its never been released officially, but its widely available on bootleg. Don't miss our sister site, the Bowie Bible, now live! I also remember that Bobby Head (Sunny) also performed, as did The Shirells, The Cyrcle (Red Rubber Ball), and I think The 13th Floor Elevator (Resurrection Shuffle). Still it was an exciting evening Ill never forget. And by the time they landed in the U.S., John Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" remarks had sent the fundamentalist South into an anti-Beatles crusade, with accusations of blasphemy quickly escalating to death threats. Where the event would . confirming the band's popularity wasn't nearly as universal as it once had been even in the progressive Bay Area. Two shows? I was impressed that they attempted to tune their guitars between songs. Fifteen years oldon my first date with a girl named Cheri. I got to see him up close and took some pictures. Sometimes people really act like animals. The Ronettes (not the Shirelles) could have headlined in New York. I couldnt believe that I was there and I got to experience seeing and hearing The Beatles forever. Moreover, the contract required 15% of ticket sales to go to the city of San Francisco, resulting in actual financial loss for local promoter Tempo Productions. P.S. According to Billy Preston the keyboard session player it was John Lennon's suggestion to play on the roof of the Apple studio building. I remember they wore kelly green suits and white socks, which was not cool in those days. John was right,they were bigger than Jesus. I also snagged 2 Beatles posters when they came out with The Beatles Guitar Hero in 2009. Tape the show. There were loads of people there. By the way JoeI hope you got the donation I sent across the universe to you recently. With performing theres so much that can go wrong, and you cant go back over it and do it right. Their next release, 1967s Sgt. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History Hiwere they anything like these: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1399132381/beatles-lost-and-found-photos-sf-candlestick-park ? Well, it did from the standpoint of the fact that it was going to be the first time they played together again. There were loads of people there. It was the Beatles! "Rather that permitting self-expression, live performances became a process of self-denial," author Martin Cloonan explains in "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society. Could you send me a copy of your Photo? How exciting to attend that reunionI appreciate this as I was there, still have my original concert ticket. Although they made an unannounced live appearance in January 1969 on the rooftop of the Apple building, The Beatles final live concert took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. Music Remembering Beatles' Final Concert Hear recording of group's fateful Candlestick Park show, which concluded doomed 1966 U.S. tour By Jordan Runtagh August 29, 2016 The Beatles took the. I like them all. The Beatles had been touring extensively since the early 1960s, and they were becoming increasingly tired and disillusioned with the rigors of life on the road. What did you think of the Let It Be film when you finally saw it? Im 62 now so must have been 13 or 14 at the time, Frankie D. and I rode the bus from Sacramento and took a cab to the concert. It was an item on a checklist. The Beatles 1964 American Tour in San Francisco. Love David Bowie? I have a 24x36, blue background poster of the event. And those young girls crying for their idols was so hilarious. Police clear the field of enthusiastic fans as The Beatles perform on a bandstand in Candlestick Park, San Francisco. On their way to the show, Paul McCartney asked the band's press officer Tony Barrow if he had his tape recorder with him: "I said, 'Sure, of course.' His wife and my wife were friends, so we would go shopping for jeans together and stuff like that. But then Paul, I only saw him once later, at the Grammys. And you would be the drummer, and Ron Gonzalez was your bass player. I also remember that it was very noisy and we had a hard time hearing The Beatles play because of all the screaming fans and all the yelling. I remember Paul, casually, at the very last minute saying, Have you got your cassette recorder with you? I said, Yes, of course. Paul then said, Tape it, will you? We would be joking with each other on stage just to keep ourselves amused, remembered Harrison in the Anthology. You say it was just a day at the office. Rather than the familiar sight of screaming fans, only a police detail and unenthusiastic members of the local press were there to meet them. All and all the 60 was.and always will be the greatest time to be a teenager. I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I think George was very wise for bringing him in, because Billy was a calming effect. Fox, The Summer of 85: Relive the Eleven Biggest Musical Moments, anti-religious statement made my John Lennon, Taylor Swift Taps Fall Out Boy, Hayley Williams for 'Speak Now Taylor's Version', Hayley Williams Regrets Shaming Disruptive Fans at Paramore Show: 'I Abused My Responsibility', How the Roots Picnic Became Hip-Hop's Greatest Festival, Rolling Loud Miami 2023 Adds Anuel AA and El Alfa to Lineup, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube to Join Run-D.M.C. Then came the Cyrkle, a band represented by the Beatles own manager, Brian Epstein. It had been their opening song when they played the Litherland Town Hall in December 1960, later enshrined as ground zero for Beatlemania. Vietnam was starting to get big and civil right protests were aboundpretty perceptive the old guy was. It was the strangest feeling. They did bring their own cameras to document the end of 4 years of gruelling world tours and everything else. I am pretty sure thats why they stopped touring, because whats the point if your own fans cant hear you? In fact, if compared with the overwhelming Shea Stadium success a mere year prior, where more than 55,000 people saw the Beatles perform a sold-out show through a less-than-decent sound system, Candlestick Park was a flop. I HAS to be a personal shot that they kept for themselves They all 4 went to the front of the stage and turned their backs to the audience and pop. It truly was a crazy day. Eight years before the lads last public gig, on Aug.29,1958,George Harrison joined Paul and John in the Quarrymen-I think they became the Beatles in 1961. bill graham show would had been more exciting ,tickets sold bad because people new they were not very good live , not elvis he always sold out much better live, they were over rated. Id LOVE to see that. The funniest thing this night was one of the warm-up acts, Bobby Hebb. It was like pulling the plug on the bathtub and the water goes away. Ringo broke the ensuing silence by saying in a small voice: Can I please go home to my mummy now, please can I? I was there. The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert. Yes, there is. Perhaps not literally, but that seemed like less of a guarantee with each passing day. The Klu Klux Klan, still outraged over Lennons bigger than Jesus comment, picketed some gigs, while other shows competed with nearby race riots. many thanks June. The Roof contains his personal memories along with contributions from Beatles scholars and information he found from researching this monumental day. George Harrison, center, and Ringo Starr, partially obscured, and the rest of The Beatles walk onto the infield of Candlestick Park, Aug. 29, 1966, their last public concert. The Beatles; The Beatles (SiIvaGunner collaboration) . One Of Johns Pictures from Candlestick Park. It had been a tumultuous tour, filled with "mishaps, rain-outs, and an undercurrent of fear," as author Jonathan Gould describes it in his book "Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles,Britain and America." The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time I dont know what baroque is, he replied. The driver headed to the outermost perimeter of the parking lot and began driving faster and faster around the park to escape the fans. It was KFRC AM 610. Alas Im glad I was there! I co emceed that final concert with Gene.neither of us had any idea it would be their last. Years later in 1969, I was in London & made my way to EMI Studios where The Beatles recorded.right on the blvd. The English rock 'n' roll sensations played before 17,000 screaming fans for 30 minutes, before abruptly ending the show and walking off stage. Editors picks Through special services we got our tickets FREE. In fact, it was undeniably sad. On Monday, May 30, 1966 Paperback Writer/Rain was released and as the musical arranger and one of the lead singers for the Syndicate of Sound we taped the songs that afternoon and learned how to play them both so I was quite familiar with the chord progressions, the harmonies, etc. She looked at them disdainfully and said, If I wanted to hear them I would buy their album. There was something about that, like a five-and-a-halfsecond meeting with Peter Brown and Mal or Michael. I was too young to ever see them and for this Im jealous and sadthe rebel Rolling Stones almost broke too thank god their still going strong drawing huge crowds of all ages to their concert imagine nearly fifty years. Biblical rains at an open-air concert in Cincinnati put the band in the unenviable position of either canceling the show and potentially instigating a riot among the 35,000 expectant fans, or performing as scheduled amid the very real risk of electrocution. The Beatles Bible is run for the love of anything and everything to do with The Beatles. The white armored car from Loomis is clearly visible on some of the film clips. Did they really seems to be ready for stop touring? Correction.1260 is an AM frequency, not an FM frequency. The sound at our concerts was always bad. So sad such poor attendence if they only knew three years later came the impromptu concert on top of the Apple office in London it was the last time the Beatles played in public. I was one of the few not screaming or crying, tho i was very much a Beatlemaniac! Lasting a total of 19 performances, with 17 shows in American venues and two in Canada, The Beatles' fourth U.S. tour began in the summer of '66 and, eventually, resulted in the Fab Four finally calling time on their extensive time on the road, after all, the group had been perennially bouncing across the maps of the world since the beginning of. Blessings. And that was the main point: Wed always tried to keep some fun in it for ourselves. As any Giants fans will know, Candlestick Park in August, at night, was cold, foggy and windy., The Remains were the first to take the stage. If you find one lemme know!!! Email: ana.leorne@gmail.com | Twitter: @analeorne, The story of the Beatles' last official concert, which took place in San Francisco, ROBERT STINNETT/MediaNews Group via Getty Images, Horoscope for Monday, 6/05/23 by Christopher Renstrom, Chance of rain, 'heavy downpours' head toward San Francisco Bay Area, CEOs booted at California tech company that furloughed all 900 employees, Judge orders halt to California wetlands restoration project. It'll help with server costs, research material etc About | Privacy policy | Advertise on this site. There was a white tablecloth, a little bit of food, some beer and some soft drinks, says newspaper photographer Jim Marshall. Barrow handed him the cassette. It was so loud, the audienceand the great band was more the size of beetles to me plus whether their sound wasl fab or not who could say? At 9:27, after the Ronettes had finished, four tiny figures bounded out of the Giants dugout and across the baseball diamond. Its just so exciting and it takes the pressure off him. The screaming was so loud we couldnt hear a thing but it didnt matter. Tour Update I was just thinking, This is going to be such a relief not to have to go through this madness anymore.'. Watch The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert. I felt like it didnt have a concept and later on I realized, Wait, that was their concept, to do something different. Let It Be was a little bit of a continuation of that. Or was the concert not promoted well enough in advance to allow for more tickets to be sold? Visit the Beatles history section. And I remember Gene Nelson from KYA in San Francisco. Lost for decades, a relic from the Beatles' last official concert in SF has been unearthed. The boredom of playing the same dozen songs each day also began to grate on the groups notoriously short attention span. Read recently that the playlist for 66 Tour didnt include any songs from the 2 latest LPs (Revolver, Rubber Soul), being so studio- production oriented, versus the lame concert venue PA systems of the time. I said: Its all there from the guitar feedback before the first number. Paul was clearly chuffed to have such a unique souvenir of what would prove to be an historic evening the farewell stage show from the Fab Four. ', Beyond contending with the wind, the band fought to be heard above their familiar nemesis: screams. They certainly didnt need the money, so why were they doing this? The unconventional show has been heavily documented in Peter Jackson's incredible new Disney+ series Get Back. I liked Ive Got a Feeling. I dont know. To me this was by far the best part of the Peter Jackson 7 hours "Get Back" footage, this final rooftop video concert is what really matters! The Bootleg Beatles The Anvil, Basingstoke - Apr 5, 2023 Apr 05 2023. Thanks, my Fab friends. And this song was on our Rubber Soul LP. Ken Mansfield, the former U.S. manager of Apple Records, recalls seeing the Beatles' last-ever public performance. And if further proof was required, the release of their studio masterpiece "Sgt. John's boring last words to Best (per 150 Glimpses of The Beatles author Craig Brown) came when the drummer and Aspinall dropped off Lennon following an Aug. 15, 1962, concert and promised to . Director Peter Jackson Stars The Beatles George Harrison John Lennon Were going to have a couple of weeks to recuperate before we go and get beaten up by the Americans, George Harrison cracked with more than a touch of resentment. It took two hours for authorities to restore some semblance of order, during which time the band were imprisoned in their dressing room. My friend Kathy and I actually jumped from the top deck when some drunk guys offered to catch us (they did!). As The Beatles made their way to Candlestick Park, Paul McCartney asked their press officer Tony Barrow to make a recording of the concert on audio cassette, using a hand-held recorder. What I do remember is that it was on KOYT that I heard Strawberry Fields Forever for the first time. How many people were as close as you? I was there that foggy night. Stadium rock was in its infancy, and even basic equipment like foldback speakers had yet to be invented. See production, box office & company info, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, IMAX: The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert, 3 Savile Row, Mayfair, London, England, UK. Last year, more than 10,000 . Of course you do. Some of the people in the Apple office didnt even try to come up, because it was just another day., Mansfield was invited to watch the historic performance, the Beatles last live gig, at the urging of the bands roadie, Mal Evans. He talked to them down there and if you look at photos of it now, youll notice there were only a couple of guys up there and you can see Mal and the policeman just standing side by side watching the show. A firecracker exploded during their Memphis concert, causing the band to momentarily believe that a gunman finally made good on the assassination threats. He also made a single copy, which was kept in a locked drawer in Barrows office desk. I only had to babysit two nites to earn my $5.50ticket!I was in front of the band almost directly but yet so so far, huh [Back then a beatles album with 11 -12 songs or so, sold for well under $3.] Finally a guy behind me grabbed me under the arm pits and hoisted me up so my feet were on the back of my seat. She would have loved to be able to have shared her account and possibly impact a few people thru her eyes. Seems hard to believe that a Beatles concert couldnt come close to a sell-out, no matter how bad the venue is. What I did notice was how people started gathering on the buildings, and they were virtually hanging out of windows and on ledges. Very cool. As a lifelong Beatles fan this is a dream come true to see old pictures from the 1970s come to life in great cinema quality with all the back stories on how the famous "Beatles Rooftop Concert" came to be! The concert took place at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. The next day, I got on a plane and went back to L.A. and Chris and I didnt talk about it for maybe 20 years. He said, After this gig, Im no longer a Beatleand that at least got the all thinking about it for sure. That said, can you imagine how packed the arenas and stadiums would have been in 1966 if The Beatles had made an announcement that it was their final tour? Well, the sound guys and film guys were totally, 100-percent professional. I was 10, My aunt and uncle was leaving for London, mom and dad said my brother and I where going to the airport to say good by, Did not want to go but this is my story, Arrived there to see all these girls screaming, we where following our parents to an area of the airport that was under construction, all first class passengers where there, My aunt and uncle and yes George, Paul, John and Ringo, I wonder if they remember me or even this requirement due to the crowded airport, yes I was the last to see this group together in this country. HELP!! Yeah, that just shows how casual and how much fun they were having. Broke my first ankle wearing Beatle Boots.Remember.. Fans paid between $4.50 and $6.50 for tickets, and The Beatles fee was around $90,000. If you hear a bootleg version of the final concert that finishes during Long Tall Sally it must have come either from Pauls copy or mine, but we never did identify the music thief!. Neither they nor the audience could hear anything, they werent improving their skills, they werent promoting their new music, and they werent enjoying themselves. He said he turned onto Savile Row and it was like a wall of sound coming down the street. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. . By what name was The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022) officially released in India in English? I remember us getting in a big empty steel-lined wagon, like a removal van. What did you think of them? "I'm not a Beatle anymore.". You could hear traces of the long nights in Hamburg. The concert took place during the Beatles's "winter of discontent." When The Beatles reconvened in January of 1969, the band was frayed and dysfunctional, according to The Beatles: Ten. There is a comment by George above saying they took pictures. In August i did attend a Beatles Tribute Band Concert. Back in London I kept the concert cassette under lock and key in a drawer of my office desk, making a single copy for my personal collection and passing the original to Paul for him to keep. That could have been the Beatles too such a shame, Hi do you no if there are any copies of THE BEATLES LIVE AT CANDLESTICK PARK 1966, ive been told there are some and would love to get one for my husband also what sort of price would it be. It is a company that usually transport money. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, What comes to mind first when you look back on the rooftop concert? What a fabulous memory. How lucky you were to meet his sister. Just this last time, they resolved to make an effort. 00:00 Get Back03:09 Don't let me down06:45 I've Got a Feeling10:31 One After 90913:35 Dig a Pony17:17 Get Back ( take 2 )On 30 January 1969, the Beatles perf. I thought maybe it was because they havent played in a while and theres a lot of tension. His suspicions were confirmed when McCartney sidled up to him just before show time. We were cruising around residential streets, nearly getting lost., Once safely inside, the Beatles descended into the locker rooms, which had been outfitted with minor luxuries to serve as their private dressing area. The group staged the gig atop Apple Records London office at 3 Savile Row, 50 years ago today, with the intention of shooting the ending for what would become their Let It Be film. What a time it was. So maybe just because of that, I didnt really think too much about it. They could play as loud as they wanted, but it was not that great. Ticket scalpers would have had a field day! The Beatles' final concert at Candlestick Park, from 1966. HOKA Clifton 9 review: Ive never loved a sneaker more, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). The remarks from the stage in this show really show where they were at at this time. Hed spent many years in their inner circle in fact, it was he who coined the Fab Four moniker but this was something hed never felt before. I had also been at the two previous shows when the Beatles played the Cow Palace. Recording: Any Time At All, Things We Said Today, When I Get Home. At San Francisco airport, as our plane prepared to take off, Pauls head came over the top of my seat from the row behind: Did you get anything on tape? I passed the cassette recorder back to him: I got the lot, except that the tape ran out in the middle of Long Tall Sally. He asked if I had left the machine running between numbers to get all the announcements and the boys ad lib remarks. They held nothing back. For the first time in its entirety - The Beatles' last live performance as a group, the unforgettable rooftop concert on London's Savile Row. Ringo and drums top left, George top right, both 10x10. The moment passed, and he ducked into the armored car bound for the airport, where the band was to fly back to Los Angeles. Panicking at the possibility of being made redundant since his contract with the Beatles was nearing expiration (even if they'd later affirm renewal was never in question), he dove deep into depression, dying a year later almost to the day. Candlestick was a horrible place to play baseball (or have a Beatles concert) because of its location. And he threw up in the dressing room. After roadie Mal Evans received a shock severe enough to throw him across the stage, the show was postponed until the next day. It was like standing on a crowded runway with jets taking off on all sides. Has anyone seen any picture from this concert? The makeshift shelter hastily constructed in the open-air Busch Stadium did little to guard against the elements. Everyone went downstairs. Im with you always wanted to hear that. Would that make it more dramatic? I remember something being bantered about, about that. Artists with same name. Unable to hear themselves, their musicianship began to atrophy. The press tried to get passes for their kids and the singer Joan Baez was in there. I was another Beatlemaniac from the day they touched down in NYC in February of 1964. Yeah. As the Beatles plane soared into the night sky, McCartney popped his head over the back of Tony Barrows seat. The dressing room was chaos. I was on Johns side of the stage about 20-30 yards back and I could see and hear everything perfectly. Fans rushed the field during their performance at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium, leading to an ugly clash with billy-club-wielding police. There was a young lady in front of me, about 20 years old, who jumped and screamed for the whole show and she would occasionally turn and apologize to me. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. They ushered in a wave of screams that an attending Joan Baez later described as like clouds bursting. The Beatles were surrounded by a 200-member police guard, as well as a Loomis armored car, which was kept running behind the stage in case they had to make a quick get-away. Oh, and BTW, the Grateful Dead were in the audience at Candlestick Park too. I was there.on leave from the army before going off to do my duty. Imagine if Bill Graham had promoted The Beatles. It marks the end of a four-year period dominated by almost nonstop touring, more than 1,400 concert . ' (Backroom boy was slang for gay man, which Epstein was.) Sothebys, Bonhams or one of the other big names will be interested (assuming your brothers friend wants to sell, of course). Peculiar, the very last song ever performed at a concert with the Beatles is cut right in a middle of a scream. Often its been very effective but the fans caught on when many times the bands ended up playing two, three, or even more so called final tours. Any local celebrity who was in town was in the dressing room. A scrap of it appears in the Beatles Anthology collage mural. They were deciding if they should even go up. A lot of people were not too thrilled about that. Wed like to carry on with a song, not surprisingly, by, er, written by George. And I know John was really complaining about it, about the cold and how he couldnt feel his hands.. We set it up on the amplifier and Ringo came off the drums, and we stood with our backs to the audience and posed for a photograph, because we knew that was the last show. Yep I think theyre so fed up he even says, a little off mic, in fact, go home. Editors picks For McCartney, the most gung-ho live performer, this was the last straw. Beatles forever, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time There were sparks flying all over the place, Freeman confirms. In anything you do you have to do that, and wed been pretty good at it. Barrow gave the original tape of the Candlestick Park concert to McCartney. How lucky am I? That was The Beatles Rock Band, not Guitar Hero. This is what weve always been. As they plugged in their guitars and did a quick tune-up, Barrow got in position by the stage and held his tape recorder aloft. I even stole a kiss off my date. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History All four boys were on the point of despair and we were discussing the possibility that our party might have to stay cooped up at the stadium overnight. Looks like Im a little late to this party, but I happened upon this page by accident. Well, on the last take of Get Back, Paul jokes about how Youve been playing on the roofs again, and you know your mama doesnt like it. Tape the show, which I did, literally just holding the microphone up in the middle of the field. They put bits of corrugated iron over the stage, so it felt like the worst little gig wed ever played at even before wed started as a band, remembered, Jeff Buckleys Grace: 10 Things You Didnt Know, Flashback: Back to the Future Has Everyone Wanting to Play Johnny B Goode Like Michael J. RFK) that night, and according to The Washington Post, there were plenty of good tickets still available, priced from $3 to $5 each. A lot of the concerts were actually free sponsored by our local politicians. Beatles' Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to 'Revolver', After playing the makeup show that afternoon, the Beatles flew to St. Louis, where they were confronted with another rainy catastrophe. I saw them earlier on the same tour, at Shea Stadium (excuse me, at Che Stadium) in NYC. Did you get anything on tape? he asked. Instead of jumping into Im Down, which was their closer the last 2 years, he hit a G note on the ol Hofner and slammed into Long Tall Sally, their big show stopper from their Hamburg days.One more time for just us there, lads?!!. [2] The stage was located just behind second base on the field, and was five feet high and surrounded by a six-foot high wire fence. For one introduction, McCartney took a playful, and un-PC, jab at Brian Epstein. There was a lot of dissension with the Beatles at the time. So by Candlestick Park it was like, Dont tell anyone, but this is probably our last gig. A trip to Asia that July ended with a frightening incident in the Philippines, when an inadvertent snub of the dictatorial first family provoked a nationwide turn against the foursome. A wild sea wind was blowing in every direction, wrote Tashian. Ringo Starr will keep on drumming, but forget about a memoir: 'I'm not doing a book'. Maybe that was because the police had told Mal to unplug it, but it wasnt very dramatic. What a thrill !!! ", On Aug. 29, 1966, The Beatles arrived in San Francisco to wrap up their summer tour with a show at Candlestick Park. One particularly irreverent Beatlemaniac hung a sign proclaiming Lennon Saves., There are few roles more thankless than an opening act at a Beatles concert in 1966, but the support bands struggled mightily to be heard against the fierce gusts of wind that blew in from San Francisco Bay, stirring up miniature dust storms across the infield. Some video with audio of the last Candlestick Park Concert 8/29/66 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdnVPY71gpI&ab_channel=AdamBound. Whats fun are Ringos concerts, because hes smart enough to bring in all these guys from great bands so everybody gets featured. It was nothing like Shea Stadium, there was nothing special about it at all, except that The Beatles did put in extra ad-libs and link material which they hadnt put in before on any other occasion. 1h 5m IMDb RATING 9.0 /10 1.3K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 0:46 1 Video 4 Photos Documentary Music For the first time in its entirety - The Beatles' last live performance as a group, the unforgettable rooftop concert on London's Savile Row. Years later my Candlestick Park recording re-appeared in public as a bootleg album. Pepper era. Photographers and the press were not allowed down there. Barrow died in May 2016, just a few months before the 50th anniversary of the Candlestick Park concert. DJ from KEWB. I was at that concert. I loved the Cow Palace too, saw serveral groups there too. There were only four of us up there that were what you would call an audience: Yoko and I, Maureen and Chris. I also remember being at the Giants game In 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their last show. Strange that they didnt consider any proper recording if they knew that this was the last live performance, and that Brian Epstein still strictly prohibited any recording, as if he didnt know. A small correction: Emperor Gene Nelson, who emceed the concert, was morning disc jockey at 1260 KYA. Im not sure Ive read this before but, according to Raechel Donahue (wife of the late KYA DJ Tom Donahue, who co-managed Tempo Productions), the City of San Franciscos Parks and Recreation Department only licensed the show for 25,000 tickets, not allowing any tickets for the bleachers to be sold. They had been in San Francisco for a grand total of five hours that day. This is the last concert. It was a unanimous decision., As the final notes from Paperback Writer drifted past the crowd and into the bay, McCartney blurted out his final stage announcement with the mechanical mumble of a man who just turned in his notice. I just happened to be working in the offices that week, he says. We both made it onto the field, nearly to the stage. ', Three attempts to ferry the superstars out of the premises using decoy limos and even ambulances failed before they were finally hustled into a tank-like armored car. The two concerts at the New York venue marked the first big charity . The faithful who arrived early decorated the railings, front walls, and chain-link backstop with homemade posters honoring their heroes. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Im four to six feet away from the band, so Im virtually looking in their faces. Any local celebrity, who was in town, was in the dressing room. McCartney was a little sunnier in his outlook. Yes, you are absolutely right. Im always hoping sometime during abbey road recordings they played that song one time. Hi John S. After a little research, it seems that KEWB used the Top 40 format up until 1966 when it was sold. I was 9 years old and my father took me and my little brother to see themthis was their last live show until Abby Road on the roofI remember two thingsgirls screaming and jelly beans everywherei believe I even saw girls underwear flying aroundI asked my father why he was taking usthere wasnt much money so I knew this was something special.. The band was likely unaware that their manager was still in Los Angeles at that very moment dealing with a major personal crisis: An ex-lover had stolen his briefcase filled with legally questionable pills, explicit homosexual love letters, steamy Polaroid photos of his young male friends and more than $20,000 in cash skimmed from concert proceeds to be handed out as a bonus to the band. 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