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The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on 15 August 1965, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.
Watch the documentary of the band's historic concert at Shea Stadium in 1965, where they played to over 55,000 screaming fans. Learn about the challenges of amplification, security, and the impact of Beatlemania in America.
- The noise is intense. It might be stating the bleedin’ obvious, but the noise created by 55,000 screaming girls and their presumably perplexed guardians is enormous, especially when it’s pumped through a cinema PA.
- The band look bemused. In these days of stadium tours and outdoor festivals it’s easy to take big crowds for granted, but back in 1965 this was all new.
- No one claps. At the end of each song the screaming rises to a new crescendo, but there’s very little actual applause. And the overhead shots that sweep the crowd don’t show people with their arms in the air like they just don’t care in the manner to which we’re accustomed.
- John Lennon is in charge. Despite McCartney’s chirpy interactions with a crowd who can’t hear a word he says, it looks like the John Lennon show. He gets a mic to himself, and he sings lead for the first half of the set.
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