50 Yrs Ago Today / The Beatles got to Play at Shea

Saturday, August 15, 2015 - 18:13
Beatles - still with us
Sophia Hollander, Wall St Journal
Beatles

They stood together in the dugout at Shea Stadium and stared. It was Aug. 15, 1965, and the Beatles had just been flown into Queens by helicopter and hustled through a stadium shaking with screams.

There had never been an outdoor concert of this scale—a sold-out sports stadium. As archival footage shows, teenagers clawed at the metal fences behind home plate, and more than 55,000 fans pressed forward for their first glimpse. Raw shrieks ripped the air.…

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