Last real Beatles concert, 47 years ago today

The Beatles only had their lineup from '62 on, when Ringo replaced Pete Best.

The Four Tops went from 1953 to 1997 with the same lineup intact.

 

Anyone here ever see them live? My older brother did at Maple Leaf Gardens, in 1965 or 1966. He also went to Woodstock, and somehow didn't get drafted despite having a draft lottery No. of 001 for those born in 1951. My lottery No. was 181 for 1954 but nobody got drafted that year.

 

My old man worked one of their shows at the Gardens with the ambulance service.

Used to work with a guy who grew up in Liverpool when they were on their way up. He was a musician who messed around in bands and said he knew them all to some extent and he remembers often having a smoke with Lennon between sets at the Cavern. He said he saw them dozens of times but never thought they'd be huge because British entertainers - save for the odd actor - rarely became famous worldwide.

 

fair point.

 

Alice, my wife, saw the Beatles both at Shea and at Forest Hills tennis center. So that's two dead stadiums.

 

I have read in the past that the biggest reason they stopped touring was because of all the screaming that happened at their concerts. Oftentimes, they couldn't hear themselves, and they just kind of thought it was futile to keep doing that.

 

Would've been 20 years in '13 for Oasis. Fucking douchebag Gallagher brothers.

 

There were a few lineup changes in that band though.

 

"Thirty-seven people have been in this band." - David St. Hubbins, "This is Spinal Tap"

 

Six months from now, I can't see myself missing Nigel more than I might miss Ross McLochness, or Ronnie Pudding, or Danny Upham, or Little Danny Schindler.

 

If you look up the Beatles setlists, they are the same -- song for song -- in every concert on a given tour.

In their final Candlestick show, the 'newest' song they play is 'Paperback Writer,' which they had recorded nearly two years before.

It's pretty hard to imagine what a PITFA touring had to have been for them.

 

That and almost being stampeded to death by Marcos loyalists in the Philippines. That was a key event, too.