See more ideas about Shea stadium, Stadium, Baseball stadium. The New York Police Department was worried that fans attending the shows would jam the tunnels in and out of Manhattan, so the Beatles were escorted from the Warwick Hotel to the Manhattan East River Heliport and flown by helicopter to the roof of the World's Fair building in Flushing Meadows Park, not far from Shea Stadium. It was an audacious move for promoter Sid Bernstein to leap nearly 20 times larger from that to 55,000 tickets for Shea Stadium. A New York City landmark of 45 years welcomed fans for the first time 56 years ago today. Throughout the concert — which also featured legendary New York DJ Bernstein said that decades after event, people still talked about that Beatles concert on August 15th, 1965: The show was filmed and eventually aired on U.S. TV in December 1966 as The Beatles At Shea Stadium. It was 55 years ago Saturday (August 15th, 1965) that the Beatles played their legendary concert at Shea Stadium in New York City. Rock music was still far outside the mainstream. All Rights Reserved. Jun 12, 2020 - Explore Alan Myers's board "Shea Stadium" on Pinterest. The Beatles returned to Shea the next year, on August 23rd, 1966, to a less-than-capacity crowd, with as many as 15,000 seats going unsold.On August 13th, 1965 the same day the Beatles landed in the States to kick-off their second full-scale North American tour, Capitol Records released the Help! On April 17, 1964, the legacy of Shea Stadium began when …

During his three-night run, McCartney paid homage to the "Fab Four's" 1965 gig by playing the band's original Shea closer "I'm Down" all three nights.On July 16th, 2011, McCartney and Billy carried on the tradition by jamming on "I Saw Her Standing There" at McCartney's third venue-opening gig at New York City's other Major League Baseball arena — Yankee Stadium.Although Paul McCartney understands that the Beatles, and more importantly, the music he and John Lennon wrote, defined the times they lived in, he remains the first to share the credit of the 1960's artistic renaissance with the many others at the forefront of the changing times: In 2016, the Beatles' 1965 Shea Stadium concert was shown during the screenings of Paul McCartney On The Beatles Being Baby Boomer Artists :Sid Bernstein On People Recalling Today Being At Beatles Show :Sid Bernstein On Beatles At Shea Being First Stadium Concert :Copyright 2020, WMCE LECOM - 88.5 FM by LECOM.

But in the mere 18 months since The biggest venue they’d played before in the New York metro area was the 2,800 or so seat Carnegie Hall in February ’64. The van driver gave each of the Beatles a Wells Fargo "agent badge," which they all wore at the evening's concert.Unlike today's stadium events, no seats were set up on the field for safety reasons. That may not sound like all that much until you translate it into the dollar value today: around $2.4 million for the Fab Four. The stadium seated just over 16,000 for each show.I grew up in Flushing and was 15 when the Beatles played Shea. While broadcaster Red Barber was telling TV cameras to pan a near-empty Yankee Stadium (and getting fired for it), Shea Stadium always had a crowd. The biggest venue they’d played before in the New York metro area was the 2,800 or so seat Carnegie Hall in February ’64. soundtrack, which featured the seven songs featured in the group’s hit film.

The U.S. version of the album was padded out by incidental music by composer In addition to the Beatles, other artists who have performed at Shea Stadium include the Joel paid tribute to the Beatles numerous times over his 2008 two-night stint dubbed, "The Last Play At Shea" — including wearing Ringo Starr's Wells Fargo agent badge that he had worn during their 1965 show.On July 17th, 2009 Billy Joel returned the favor during the opening night of McCartney's three-night-stand at the New York Mets' new home Citi Field by joining in on "I Saw Her Standing There."

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