Yet, those tracks are often hailed as the best of The Beatles' live recordings. Released on this day [May 1] back in 1966, the Shea Stadium concert film continues to be celebrated as one of the ...

On August 15, 1965, the modern stadium rock concert was born with The Beatles' outdoor show at New York's packed Shea Stadium.

The Beatles 1966 Shea Stadium Poster In the summer of 1966, promoter Sid Bernstein had posters go up around New York to advertise the Beatles' August 23 concert at Shea Stadium. The yellow window ...

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.

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.

The Beatles played at Shea Stadium both in 1965 and in 1966, but the latter concert was rather underwhelming for the band compared to the 1965 show, which was turned into a 50-minute-long film ...

Live at Shea Stadium 1982 will be released on March 1 as a two-CD set and a three-LP collection. The date coincides with Who frontman Roger Daltrey’s 80th birthday. The audio collections serve ...

In 1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr played a show at New York’s Shea Stadium. The concert was The Beatles’ largest to date and, understandably, jangled their ...

Sid Bernstein, legendary impresario and rock concert promoter, brought The Beatles to America and was known as the father of the British Invasion. Sid passed away on August 21, 2013 at the age of 95.

Days before, on Aug. 15, the Beatles had kicked off their US tour at New York’s Shea Stadium, where they played before a record-setting 55,600 fans.

McCartney’s jacket from the Shea Stadium gig, original hand-written concert set lists and a recreation of the “Ed Sullivan Show” set are among the attractions at the exhibit, which focuses ...

The Beatles released 13 studio albums from 1963 to 1970, spawning a record 20 chart-topping songs in the U.S. including “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “Hey Jude,” “Come Together” and ...