Jun 12, 2020 - Explore Alan Myers's board "Shea Stadium" on Pinterest. I remember that warm balmy night like it was yesterday. 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. With the dedication of Shea Stadium scheduled for 1 P.M. today, the condition of the playing field for tomorrow's first appearance of the New York Mets in their new home remained a lively topic. Jun 21, 2018 - Explore HENRY MCGRATTY's board "SHEA STADIUM" on Pinterest. All Rights Reserved.
A poster for the Shea Stadium concert that elevated stadium rock to the big leagues: The Beatles’ 1965 show in front off 55,000 screaming fans.
Next, the group jumped in a Wells Fargo armored van and were driven to the stadium. 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." It was 55 years ago Saturday (August 15th, 1965) that the Beatles played their legendary concert at Shea Stadium in New York City. We walked down to the stadium in the afternoon and tried to sneak in over the bullpen fence which we always did when we wanted to go to a Mets game. 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.
Shea Stadium, the newest major league baseball park, opened for business yesterday with appropriate festivities and colossal traffic jams. 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.
Although most of the footage from the show is featured in the group's Anthology series, nearly all of the behind-the-scenes footage from that day remains unreleased. Yes, the Beatles did perform two shows at Carnegie Hall that sat 2,800 people, but when they cam back for the 1964 summer North American tour they played two shows at NYC’s Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on August 28 and 29, 1964. It was 55 years ago Saturday (August 15th, 1965) that the The Beatles, who performed on a makeshift stage near where second base would normally be, earned a whopping $160,000 for their 30-minute set — which was a record payout at that time. Also other data will not be shared with third person. The show set records for both the size of the audience and its earnings.Historic footage from the concert is included in the documentary Your story on the Beatles is incorrect. soundtrack, which featured the seven songs featured in the group’s hit film. It was an audacious move for promoter Sid Bernstein to leap nearly 20 times larger from that to 55,000 tickets for Shea Stadium. The show was the first on their 1965 U.S. summer tour, and it was also the first-ever open-air stadium rock concert. 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.
No way, there were cops all over the place so we walked around the stadium looking for another way in. 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.
Yet every one of them sold and the take was a bit over $300,000, split between the band and Bernstein. On April 17, 1964, the legacy of Shea Stadium began when … 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.
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.
See more ideas about Shea stadium, Stadium, Baseball stadium. Not a bad haul for a 12-song, 30-minute set.