Monday, August 29, 2016

It Was 50 Years Ago Today (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)

On August 29, 1966 The Beatles played their last-ever concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park:
The boredom of playing the same dozen songs each day also began to grate on the group's notoriously short attention span. Making matters worse, most of the tunes were several years old. Much of their recent work was enhanced by backing musicians and innovative studio techniques, making it simply too challenging to perform given the technical limitations of a live setting. In fact, the Beatles would never play a single track off of their latest album, Revolver, released just days before they kicked off their dates.

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