It Was 50 Years Ago Yesterday

The Beatles played their historic concert at Shea Stadium. Here's an article on why that show was even greater than we thought:

The Beatles became who they were on the back of their catalog — which is to say, as songwriters — but that endgame would never have been secured without them first being absolute badasses of the stage. You hear an absolute mother of a band on something like the Star Club tapes, recorded — in exchange for free beer — in Hamburg in late 1962. This was a group that, from an in-concert standpoint, could beat the piss out of all comers. The songs were almost always not theirs, but the point wasn't ownership in the compositional sense, but rather a kind of sonic rank pulling — in effect, saying, "Yep, we'll have this bad boy number by you, Fats Waller, and you, Arthur Alexander, and we will make it no one else's but ours."

I don't really know why this writer thinks Help! sucks, this makes them an idiot.

The Beatles talk about Shea Stadium by allableck