THE BEATLES “LIVE IN PARIS“ ORIGINAL 1964/66 PYRAMID RECORDS PINK VINYL 12" LP

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THE BEATLES “LIVE IN PARIS 1964/CANDLESTICK PARK AUGUST 29TH 1966“ ORIGINAL 1964/66 PYRAMID RECORDS PINK VINYL 12" LP SINGLE ALBUM 331/3RPM.

From this day until Thursday 4 February 1964, The Beatles performed 18 days of concerts at Paris' Olympia Theatre, on a nine-act bill, playing two and sometimes three sets each day.

The Beatles closed each performance, but shared top billing at various times with French singer Sylvie Vartan or America's Trini Lopez. They had just two days off in the run, on 21 and 28 January.

The songs in The Beatles' set were From Me To You, Roll Over Beethoven, She Loves You, This Boy, Boys, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Twist And Shout and Long Tall Sally, although for some shows, particularly the matinée performances, they played for less time.

On 16 January The Beatles firstly performed a matinee show at the Olympia in front of an enthusiastic sell-out crowd. In the evening they performed before an older audience. The Olympia was an impressive music hall, with a guaranteed audience in evening dress eager to experience the best entertainment Paris had to offer.

It was, however, somewhat ill-equipped for Beatlemania. Although the group's second performance was politely received, the venue's fuses blew three times due to its electricity system not being equipped for modern amplifiers.

On the first night, we had a bit of trouble because we suddenly found out that there was a radio programme just sort of plugging into everything. They had overloaded all the amps, and they all went 'Bomf!' They like the wilder stuff over there, so we stuck in a wilder number to finish off with.

Backstage there was a mob of French photographers eager for pictures of The Beatles. At one stage a fight broke out after one of them was disallowed from taking exclusive pictures. The trouble spilled onto the stage, and Paul McCartney was forced to stop singing to call for order. George Harrison narrowly avoided having his guitar damaged by the mob.

The police were called and the group resolved to allow no-one backstage for the remaining dates. Armed Parisian gendarmes ringed the theatre, and The Beatles left the stage amid an air of chaos.

Although they made an unannounced live appearance in January 1969 on the rooftop of the Apple building, The Beatles' final live concert took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.

John wanted to give up more than the others. He said that he'd had enough.

The Park's capacity was 42,500, but only 25,000 tickets were sold, leaving large sections of unsold seats. Fans paid between $4.50 and $6.50 for tickets, and The Beatles' fee was around $90,000. The show's promoter was local company Tempo Productions.

The Beatles took 65% of the gross, the city of San Francisco took 15% of paid admissions and were given 50 free tickets. This arrangement, coupled with low ticket sales and other unexpected expenses resulted in a financial loss for Tempo Productions.

Candlestick Park was the home of the baseball team the San Francisco Giants. The stage was located just behind second base on the field, and was five feet high and surrounded by a six-foot high wire fence.

The compère was 'Emperor' Gene Nelson of KYA 1260 AM, and the support acts were, in order of appearance, The Remains, Bobby Hebb, The Cyrkle and The Ronettes. The show began at 8pm.

The dressing room was chaos. There were loads of people there. The press tried to get passes for their kids and the singer Joan Baez was in there. Any local celebrity, who was in town, was in the dressing room. They were having a party in there. They were having a perfectly wonderful time, while I was freezing my buns off on second base!

<img src="/wp/media/660829_poster_02.jpg" alt="Poster for The Beatles at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 29 August 1966" title="Poster for The Beatles at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 29 August 1966" width="144" height="234" class="alignright size-full wp-image-8959" />The Beatles took to the stage at 9.27pm, and performed 11 songs: Rock And Roll Music, She's A Woman, If I Needed Someone, Day Tripper, Baby's In Black, I Feel Fine, Yesterday, I Wanna Be Your Man, Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer and Long Tall Sally.

The group knew it was to be their final concert. Recognising its significance, John Lennon and Paul McCartney took a camera onto the stage, with which they took pictures of the crowd, the rest of the group, and themselves at arm's length.

<img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.beatlesbible.com/wp/media/660829_01.jpg?resize=420%2C325" alt="John Lennon at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 29 August 1966" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15508" data-recalc-dims="1" />

As The Beatles made their way to Candlestick Park, Paul McCartney asked their press officer Tony Barrow to make a recording of the concert on audio cassette, using a hand-held recorder. The cassette lasted 30 minutes on each side, and, as Barrow didn't flip it during the show, the recording cut off during final song Long Tall Sally.

Barrow gave the original tape of the Candlestick Park concert to McCartney. He also made a single copy, which was kept in a locked drawer in Barrow's office desk. The recording has since become widely circulated on bootlegs, although quite how is not known.

Back in London I kept the concert cassette under lock and key in a drawer of my office desk, making a single copy for my personal collection and passing the original to Paul for him to keep. Years later my Candlestick Park recording re-appeared in public as a bootleg album. If you hear a bootleg version of the final concert that finishes during Long Tall Sally it must have come either from Paul's copy or mine, but we never did identify the music thief!

The record album will be packaged, protected and posted first class in a LP card mailer sleeve. This is a definite collectable and "Must Buy" for all Rock and Pop Fan.

Vinyl Condition = Excellent

Cover Condition = Decent

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