In 1965, The Beatles played their largest concert to date at New York’s Shea Stadium. The crowd was enormous, with 55,000 fans in attendance. The show symbolized the height of Beatlemania.

Sound was a huge issue during The Beatles’ Shea Stadium performance. It was just another instance where the band couldn’t hear themselves perform, nor the audience.

While The Beatles' performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was an iconic TV moment, their 32-minute performance at Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965 truly demonstrated how popular they had become. With ...

Norman Smith, a leading record producer who was the original sound engineer for the Beatles through 1965 and later signed the band Pink Floyd to a recording contract, died March 4 of cancer in ...

The title would belong to The Beatles until May 5, 1973, when Led Zeppelin played to 56,800 people in Tampa, Florida. The Beatles returned to Shea Stadium on August 23, 1966.

By HILLEL ITALIE Aug 21, 2013 Aug 21, 2013Updated Oct 16, 2019 0 ...