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| The Beatles Candlestick Park,San Francisco 8/29/66 |
Marking off another Golden anniversary of the fab four's is their final gig at Candlestick Park,San Francisco which was held August 29th,1966. The band had concluded their touring duties with this memorable gig wherein it was said that they took selfies after they bid adieu to the crowd.Something that would never ever happen again for the rest of their lives as musicians.
The Beatles has stopped touring amid the problems they began facing since Beatlemania took off two years earlier.The band was noted at first for being frustrated of not hearing themselves with all the uproar that has been going on as fans started to pack their venues and they were forced to take on stadiums to accomodate more people.Not to mention the political and religious involvement the band has faced in which touring became a little more dangerous in the wake of John Lennon's comment "We're more popular than Jesus" wherein the band had received numerous death threats and protests left and right from religious sects.Adding up to their burden is the disastrous tour of the Philippines wherein they nearly jeopardized their own existence over Ferdinand Marcos who was back then gearing up to be a dictator of the island nation.
Celebrating the last ever gig is an audio recording of the band playing at Candlestick Park.Though the audio clip's quality is relatively poor, it gives one Beatles fan(most of whom were not even born yet when the band first came to fame) an insight of what its like to be in that touring finale.
One gig which eventually turned up to be released as a live album later on was the 1964 concert at Hollywood Bowl where George Martin had to clean the noise meticulously using the current available technology.The album made it to the top 10 in the late seventies and will also be re-issued this year.With more technological advancements,who knows,some of these gigs would one day be issued as another official live album.
(c) 2016 Keith Vernon Adagio
