has anyone ever seen the Beatles Live?

[vash]

early 70's. hell, late 60's? anytime? i'm no Beatles expert by any means. i dont know when their last concert was.

i've been listening to a lot of music lately. a lot of it is Beatles music. when my mind is racing and i am trying to sleep, music is the only thing that kinda calms me down enough to fall asleep. it got me thinking..man i bet it was epic.

hell, i probably wasnt old enough to catch a Queen concert.

[GH85Carrera]

Nope. We were living in Hawaii when the broke up in 1969. If someone saw them in the 70s they were a tribute band.

[vash]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

If someone saw them in the 70s they were a tribute band.

thanks. i was 4, my memory is foggy.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by vash

thanks. i was 4, my memory is foggy.

OK, you get a pass on that!

I almost got to meet Elvis. I was a press photographer and Governor Wallace was going to meet him and do a publicity shot. Something came up and that was canceled. I did meet Donny Osmond! Not quite the same as Elvis or the Beatles.

[vash]

you would get a pass on Marie Osmond. hahha..i had such a crush on her when i was a tiny kid.

[vash]

Elvis would be amazing, to meet.

[Seahawk]

I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was 7. I remember it very well.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

They played the Hollywood Bowl once, I think it was 64.

[stevej37]

My family was Christian Reformed religion...had to attend both am and pm church services.
I remember at age 11 sitting and fidgeting through the hour and a half service..knowing that the Beatles were going to be on sometime that night during the ES show. Made it home with half hour to spare.
Our tv was black and white....didn't matter. I remember it clearly

[Paul_Heery]

I saw them in 1964 at Convention Hall in Philadelphia. I was 6 at the time.

My sister, who was 10 really wanted to see them. My father said OK and bought her a ticket. We dropped her off and went and did some errands. When we got back to Convention Hall, the entire place was surrounded by Philly police officers. My dad recognized one of them as a fellow soccer player. Dad went up and asked him how much longer until the concert was over. The officer said that he wasn't sure, but said that we could go in if we wanted.

We went inside and stood in the back. The back of the hall was empty as everyone had rushed towards the stage. All I really remember hearing was the sound of thousands of girls screaming.

So, yes I have seen the Beatles live.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was 7. I remember it very well.

What movie was it that Billy Crystal was the comedian that had to go on right after them on the Sullivan show?

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Paul_Heery

I saw them in 1964 at Convention Hall in Philadelphia. I was 6 at the time.

My sister, who was 10 really wanted to see them. My father said OK and bought her a ticket. We dropped her off and went and did some errands. When we got back to Convention Hall, the entire place was surrounded by Philly police officers. My dad recognized one of them as a fellow soccer player. Dad went up and asked him how much longer until the concert was over. The officer said that he wasn't sure, but said that we could go in if we wanted.

We went inside and stood in the back. The back of the hall was empty as everyone had rushed towards the stage. All I really remember hearing was the sound of thousands of girls screaming.

So, yes I have seen the Beatles live.

That is awesome!

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

What movie was it that Billy Crystal was the comedian that had to go on right after them on the Sullivan show?

Mr. Saturday Night. Good, not great.

[Scott Douglas]

I remember watching them on the ES show live. Main thing I remember about that show is you could hardly hear the band over the screaming girls.

[MRM]

My roommate in college saw them. He said it was the worst concert he had ever been to. He couldn't hear anything over all the screaming girls and they rushed through their set and got off the stage as fast as they could. He said the whole thing was basically a riot.

[sammyg2]

I saw Sir Paul, great show. But never the whole group. too young.

Anecdote: in 1975 my older brother was working the Anaheim convention center across from dismal land.
he was assigned as gopher for the entertainment and Elvis was there.
The entourage/band had my brother running all over the place to get dumb stuff, almost like a scavenger hunt. I heard that was a game they liked to play with the help.

Right before he went on stage, Elvis tossed my brother one of the scarves he had around his neck and thanked him for being a good sport.
He still has that scarf, too bad he couldn't get it signed but that wasn't in the cards.

[RM512]

Saw them get off the plane at Midway airport Chicago in '64. No pics tho....

[sammyg2]

Correction, evidently it was in '76:






this is the concert I really would have liked to see, but I was eight.
So who got to see Zep?

[ckissick]

Their last concert was in August of 1966 in my general neighborhood at Candlestick Park. I was 7 years old, and probably hadn't even been to my first Giants game yet. So I missed it. I do remember them on the Ed Sullivan show, though.

[jcommin]

I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show but never live. I was a teen. I missed an opportunity to see George Harrison at MSG (Madison Square Garden) in the early 70s. He was doing a concert for Bangladesh ( a live album) An opportunity I regretted at the time.

Fun fact - the Beatles used the baseball stadium PA system. This is long before the elaborate speaker systems of today. How they managed to play with screaming crowds and a poor sound system, I'm amazed they played as well as they did. They made more money from those live shows that their record sales.

I did see Elvis at the Chicago Stadium in the mid 70s. Not an Elvis fan at the time - but the show was great.

[speeder]

A whole bunch of people got to see them live. What was the question?

They only toured a couple times in the U.S. and as correctly noted above, not after 1966. So the youngest person alive who saw them would be in their mid-60s at least, unless they were a small child at the concert somehow. Teenyboppers at the time would be 70 or older now.

I remember seeing them on Ed Sullivan at age 5 in 1964, it seems like every person alive in the USA at the time did. We used to have shared experiences as a nation back then, not so much now. I tell youngsters now that they can’t even imagine what that was like...it was Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift times 10,000...3 or 4 hit singles in the top 10 at once in the age of radio when people bought records and you had to be in a coma to not be aware of them. Imagine if every senior citizen in the land and every plumber in Arkansas knew who Lady Gaga was. Like that.