The Beatles - 1965-08-15 - Shea Stadium, Flushing NY (SBD)

The Beatles

1965-08-15

Shea Stadium

Flushing NY

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

CD 1:

The Beatles

01. Introduction

02. Twist And Shout

03. She's A Woman

04. I Feel Fine

05. Dizzy Miss Lizzy

06. Ticket To Ride

07. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

08. Can't Buy Me Love

09. Baby's In Black

10. Act Naturally

11. A Hard Day's Night

12. Help!

13. I'm Down

King Curtis

14. National Anthem

15. Intermezzo

Discotech Dancers

16. Medley

King Curtis

17. What'd I Say

18. The Branch

19. Soul Twist

20. Intermezzo

Cannibal & Headhunters

21. Out Of Sight

22. Now Lady Now

23. The Way You Do The Things You Do

24. Land Of 1000 Dances

Brenda Holloway

25. Shake/Satisfaction

26. I Can't Help Myself

27. You Can Cry On My Shoulder

28. When I'm Gone

CD 2

01. Intermezzo

Sounds Inc.

02. America/Fingertips

03. William Tell Overture

04. Instrumental

05. In The Hall Of The Mountain Kings

The Beatles - Original 1966 BBC Soundtrack

06. Introduction

07. Twist And Shout

08. I Feel Fine

09. Dizzy Miss Lizzy

10. Ticket To Ride

11. Act Naturally

12. Can't Buy Me Love

13. Baby's In Black

14. A Hard Day's Night

15. Help!

16. I'm Down

The Beatles Live At Shea Described By Erupting Fans

17. Part 1

18. Part 2

The Beatles - 1965-08-15 - Shea Stadium, Flushing NY (SBD)

I grew up in Flushing, Queens, 1 train stop from Shea Stadium, former home of the New York Mets (though I'm a Yankee fan through and through - that was passed down from my dad!). I was 6 years old, just about to enter first grade, and way too young to understand what it meant when the Beatles took the stage at Shea on August 15, 1965, 55 years ago today. Once again, the Beatles would make history. The show was the first on their 1965 summer tour, but more importantly, it was also the first-ever stadium rock concert. Beatlemania required a setting larger than any band before had ever needed. Rock & roll would never be the same after this show. Today's mega outdoor events, complete with video screens, giant stages, special effects and pyrotechnics are the legacy of the Beatles performance that August night in Queens. This soundboard recording, captures the entire 30 minute performance (a 1/2 hour!! -- today, I'm annoyed if a band plays less than 3 hours!), including the introduction by Ed Sullivan, as well as all of the opening acts. A dozen songs, 30 minutes and the show was over, but its impact has lasted a life time. Note - we posted this previously on So Many Roads, but this version includes the entire show, including sets by King Curtis, Cannibal & Headhunters and Brenda Holloway.

The Beatles/Jerry Garcia Connections

• Almost every rock band has been influenced by The Beatles, and Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead are no exception. 
• According to one biography of Jerry Garcia, the reason Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions morphed into the Grateful Dead was all thanks to the Fab Four. "For one thing, like half of America under the age of 25, Jerry had been seduced by the Beatles, especially their film, A Hard Day's Night, which depicted life in a rock and roll band as just about the most fun that could be had on planet earth. The Beatles were deliciously irreverent and in-your-face anarchic; untameable gadabouts on an endless lark, always living in a completely different universe than the pitiable straight forces that were constantly trying to control, or at the very least, restrain them." "The Beatles were why we turned from a jug band into a rock and roll band" said Bob Weir. 
• Over the years, The Grateful Dead incorporated a host of Beatle tunes into their live shows, including A Day In the Life, Blackbird, Day Tripper, Hey Jude, I Want To Tell You. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Rain, Revolution, Tomorrow Never Knows and Why Don't We Do It In The Road.. They also played McCartney’s That Would Be Something. 
• Jerry Garcia’s solo shows included covers of I Saw Her Standing There, Eleanor Rigby and Dear Prudence, as well as McCartney’s Let Me Roll It. 
• In the 1960s, Linda McCartney did a photo session with the Dead. Those pictures were later incorporated into a nine-minute film released in 1996 called Grateful Dead: A Photofilm. It was directed by none other than Sir Paul McCartney. McCartney had hoped to show the film to Jerry Garcia just before the guitarist passed away. ”I heard on the news that Jerry had died, and I thought, ‘Oh no, I was just about to show the film to him,’ ” McCartney told the New York Times. ”I’d been in correspondence with him, because he was a painter and I thought he’d like this. Unfortunately, I missed him. I suppose it has become a little bit of a tribute to Jerry because of it.”
• McCartney admitted he had never been to a Dead concert, but after making the film, regretted he never took the opportunity to do so.