The Beatles REACTION - Live At SHEA STADIUM (August 15, 1965) PART 1

[@FortWorthFabian]

HAD TO RE-UPLOAD THIS !!! PART 2 OTW!!

[@wc.1212]

Adam watched this :D

[@wc.1212]

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[@patticrichton1135]

WHERE IS PART 2? It's now April 17, 2022

[@johnrooney1033]

That was the first rock concert ever held in a stadium.

[@FortWorthFabian]

o nice

[@catnc1]

The sound had to go through the PA system. How did they hear well enough to stay together? This concert was the first time that I saw The Beatles.

[@joe6096]

@@catnc1 The thing about this concert is that the Beatles had no monitors, were running directly off their guitar amps, and the microphones were simply plugged directly into the stadium PA system. But they wrote the songs and knew them well enough to where they could play deaf and still sound good. Which is what they were doing. Ring said he'd look at John's or Paul's ass to know which way they're shaking to know what part of the song they're in so he knew where the changes were coming. If the Beatles were given the monitors, amplification, and hundreds of channels at their disposal, with the 100,000 watt walls of speakers Paul tours with today, they'd have been on fire in 1965. They were just so far ahead of their time the electronics companies had to invent things just to keep up with the Beatles! They drove technology!!!

[@beckygrant2258]

Beatles fans don’t have favorite songs….because the Beatles had such a huge catalog of top hits…more than any other band…ever! 21 songs went to number one. 45 more were in the top 10 on the charts. And 75 more hit the top 40, which means they were in rotation on the radio stations! Every one of their 14 albums went platinum several times. To this day…they still outsell every other band! Really! They did several films. They stopped touring after 1965 concerts cuz they couldn’t hear themselves sing. And fans were just screaming, not listening. So they created art on vinyl…every song had to be great! And they were the first to create music videos because they had stopped touring. First to do a concert by satellite (which was really new), shown around the world. They changed everything about rock and roll. All other bands had to compete with them, which is why 60’s and 70’s music was SO good! They came to the US in 1964 and broke up in 1970. That’s it. They did it all in about 8 years. Each of the Beatles formed separate bands and became famous for their solo careers. But they were never better than when they were together.

[@sheriefhassanen]

No one before them or after them will reach their status.

[@beckygrant2258]

They had special amps made for these Stadium concerts but they still couldn’t hear themselves sing. It’s ridiculous how they stayed together at all! This was the very first stadium rock concert. They piped the music through the baseball PA system!

[@Chris-kj7de]

The Beatles were just 4 young men from Liverpool, who never had a lot of money, but all of them had over-the-top musical talent and were brilliant songwriters. They set off the British Invasion, which opened the door for The Rolling Stones, and all of the other great British bands and singers of the 60s and 70s and beyond.

[@susanelkins3068]

My GOD! They were just KIDS! and they could barely hear themselves play or sing ! Best Band EVER !

[@tigerpinky]

Beatles Anthology on dvd a goldmine! a must see

[@sonnycrockett2079]

Love The Beatles; thank you for the post. Interesting facts about them: 72 million people watched them on the Sullivan show. No social media and not every house in America has a TV - 10,000 fans greeted them at the airport - My dad was a cop at the first Shea concert (they played there again in 66) and he said with SRO, there was closer to 65,000 - They played for 10,000 hours in Hamburg and after becoming famous, toured from 63-66. There music became to complicated to do on stage and no-one was really listening, just screaming - Shea was the very first stadium concert in rock n roll history. They played through their amps and a limited PA system and could not hear what they were singing - They only played 35 minutes or so - They refused to play to segregated audiences in America or anywhere and had it stipulated in their contract - Every studio album is unique and different. Sgt. Pepper changed everything - Peter Jackson (Lord If The Rings) just directed a film on the Let It Be album called Get Back….released in theaters this fall (the original Let it be is no longer available and pretty morose) - Ron Howard released a documentary in the theaters on their touring years a few years back - Rest in peace: John Lennon 1940-1980 George Harrison 1943-2001 The Beatles have sold over 1.5 billion records (millions more as solo artists) and changed music, media and much of the artistic world as we know it - McCartney is the only artist in history to gave a number one album in 7 decades (1960-2020) and combined with the Beatles and his solo stuff, is the mist selling artist in history - PS: McCartney has a six part special on HULU right now….all about the music called: McCartney 3,2,1 and if you want to REALLY know most everything about The Beatles, buy or rent The Beatles Anthology documentary on DVD (6 parts ?)

[@drsgtpepper95]

The Beatles were so popular no one had ever performed at a stadium before for a concert until they showed up. Back then you’d perform at theaters and appear on tv shows like Ed Sullivan and that would be the end of it. They made history in 1 night and with only 30 minutes on stage.

[@thomastimlin1724]

BTW, Whoopee Goldberg was in that audience with her mother!

[@TangoEliott]

Other way around. MJ would feel like the Beatles

[@garyfletcher844]

Somebody needs to do a movie on them LOL . You are young. There are nearly a dozen movies about them.

[@noelles.8019]

You have to pause during the video so you tube don't take the sound off or something like that because of copy rights

[@patticrichton1135]

Still don't know why the sound went off here and there....anyway if the guitars sounded out of tune it's because that night was VERY HOT and HUMID. I know several Beatles tribute/cover bands (including one that my drummer son was a member) that I go to see, and that happens a lot at an outdoor venue when it is hot AND humid. There were SOME FUTURE FAMOUS GIRLS in that crowd at Shea....MERYL STREEP (she presented McCartney an award some years back on TV, and she related her experience, and you could tell she was still very much a fan when Paul walked out, she got a kiss out of it (I am SOOOOO JEALOUS!! He was and IS my favorite), WHOOPI GOLDBERG (who told HER experience in Ron Howard's movie about the Beatles touring years 1963-1966) called "EIGHT DAYS A WEEK" that was in the theatres a few years ago and is available on DVD and I think on-line, AND LINDA EASTMAN who became LINDA McCARTNEY 4 years later! (she didn't know him then, and she wasn't a teen during the Shea concert. She's a few months older than Paul). ANOTHER FUTURE FAMOUS GIRL was at the BEATLES HOLLYWOOD BOWL concert in 1964, 15 year old SIGOURNEY WEAVER!

[@jnagarya519]

Note during their performance of "I'm Down" that there is a point where McCartney is singing, "How can you laugh/When you know I'm down?" that George and John, on the other side of the stage, are cracking up.

[@brianphillips2440]

It might make sense to approach the Beatles more or less chronologically. Their sound developed fast over less than a decade. This is still pretty rock and roll-y compared to their last period.

[@Chris-kj7de]

Agree. It's a fantastic ride!

[@patticrichton1135]

NO it was the BEATLES who walked on stage, Michael Jackson's reactions from the crowd were never as excessive as this was

[@cephalophorenameless422]

Thank you! This post is old, but I just had to comment. Comparing Michael Jackson to Beatlemania is like comparing a glass of water to the Pacific Ocean. Jackson NEVER got anything like the reaction the Beatles did.

[@patticrichton1135]

@@cephalophorenameless422 ABSOLUTELY!!! Just like I said, no one before or since had this amount of fandom and "mania" like the Beatles did.

[@annalenuzza7888]

For this concert Vox made a special amplifier,from 30watt to 100w..that was the technolgy in those days..

[@jnagarya519]

"Security" was not "throwing people out". They were preventing fans from charging the stage.

[@patticrichton1135]

Yes, no one was ever thrown out, they were either put back into the seating area, to go back to their seat, or in the case of someone fainting, out in the corriders to be attended to. Fans were not allowed on the field, so their was NO seating or standing on the field like there is now for concerts. So we were always far away when they played in sports stadiums. It was like that in Cleveland too at their concert in the old Municipal Stadium on Aug. 14, 1966 when I was 19 and attended that concert. However people knocked over the flimsy "snow fences" they set up around the perimeter of the field and ran up to the stage on 2nd base. I did too, as we were sitting in the lower level right behind home plate. After a few minutes the police pulled them off the stage and shoved them into the trailer set up behind the stage, where they changed into the suits they would wear for the show. Police made everyone go back to their seats in the stadium before they started the show again.

[@trainkid2007]

the beatles are my most favorite band of all time

[@thomastimlin1724]

There has been a rumor that the Beatles re-recorded the songs in the studio later for a version of this film, because the audio was so bad from the screaming etc. This may be a copy of that version. Another enhanced version of the original soundtrack is out from 2016 that was part of the Eight Days a Week Documentary from 2016, directed by Ron Howard. This was the very first rock concert held in a stadium, because there were so many fans they had to or there would have literally been riots to get into a smaller venue. What looks like a fence barricade with posts around the stadium are actually speaker invented by an electrician so that the crowd could hear them. There were NO giant PA systems back then. This is how popular they were. They once described themselves when on tour as being in the eye of the hurricane. Critics who now diss the Beatles are totally full of shit. they broke the mold and kicked down the door.

[@jmweed1861]

Watch the Beatles Anthology and read The Beatles by Bob Spitz. You will understand the Hamburg Days in the late 50s, with Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best,the Part Astrid Kirchner plays, playing in The Cavern....and the making of all the songs and Craziness around the Beatles. You do not get 3 Great Songwriters and 4 Great Singers in the same group only once. And the part Producer George Martin played. They were the 1st group to write their own songs and the 1st group to Actually play Live on TV, on the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb 1964. No lip sync and on back up band.

[@jiggermast]

Who is there in the world today able to command this kind of fan base at any concert ANYWHERE!

[@sharp78htdc61]

Unbelievable, the greatest

[@paulknight9998]

This was shot on 35 mm film in 1965. This is a bootleg copy. 35 mm was the standard format for most motion pictures from the beginning of cinema up to around 2005. If this ever gets remastered it will look and sound as good as any movie made during that period.

[@DavidGigg]

Ron Howard remastered this, it was shown after his 'Eight days a Week' movie

[@joe6096]

@@DavidGigg Unfortunately he could not get the company that owns the rights to it to allow him to attach the remastered version to the DVD/BluRay or on youtube. So unless that company (which I think is now in the hands of the daughter of the promoter of the Shea Stadium show) releases the rights to it, the only time anyone ever will actually have had the chance to see the remastered version of Shea Stadium would have been in the theater when 8 Days A Week was initially released. Luckily I did.

[@DavidGigg]

@@joe6096 Yes, I saw it too

[@brandonflorida1092]

There are many biopics. Try "Birth of the Beatles," "Nowhere Boy," "In His Life," "Backbeat," or many others.

[@vashna3799]

One of the few concerts the boys behaved better than the girls.

[@patticrichton1135]

Uh, but did you notice that it was several BOYS that FIRST broke through the guard rails set up around the perimeter, and chased by the police? It wasn't girls that started it!

[@mgonzales56]

There is an eight part Anthology that pretty much covers the entire Beatles story. You might want to check that out.

[@qthelost]

And this doesn't even do justice to how loud those fans really were. They played so many gigs before they were famous that they were a really tight 4 piece band. But when they had to play in front of crowds where the screaming never stopped, they couldn't hear themselves play, they couldn't hear if they were out of tune, so they just stopped playing live. The last few years before the break up they were just a studio band, but they gave us some of the greatest albums of all time like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, Abbey Road, Let it Be. Here's a great video from just a couple of years ago where Paul is driven around Liverpool, singing Beatles songs, and they visit all the important Beatles' sites. Very fun video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5vZq3aKptB1erM

[@jnagarya519]

There are numerous films about "The Beatles" -- especially their own "Anthology".

[@petergahan9076]

Watch Eight Days A Week. It’s about the Beatles during the touring years. Directed by Ron Howard. Fantastic.

[@hixtonweasle6169]

No Monitors. screams. still in key.

[@Vultraz999]

more beatles live reactions! can u try the 1964 ed sullivan performance full set?

[@susanelkins3068]

UMMMM- the Beatles were/are and always will be bigger and better than Michael Jackson!!!!!!!!!! There is NO comparison!!!!!!!!!

[@catnc1]

Ron Howard did a film on The Beatles touring years a few years ago. 8 Days a Week, I think it was called.

[@brianphillips2440]

This might be the first real stadium concert.

[@FortWorthFabian]

awesome concert

[@DavidGigg]

It was, the very first! Rock Concert PA systems did not exist yet.

[@patticrichton1135]

@@DavidGigg Yes PA"s existed if you are talking about "Public Address" systems, that were used to make announcements during the games in stadiums. that is why the sound was not good here, because their music was being fed THROUGH the PA system.

[@mgonzales56]

The Beatles played at Shea twice, once in 1964, then in 1965. This was the first time a rock concert was held in a stadium with that many people. Usually a concert was around 2000 fans, so this was the first huge concert. After this concert crowds started getting bigger. Yes The Beatles were in the chopper. The noise was so loud from the non stop screams, that they could not hear themselves so that is why the sound is not that good. We are still waiting for an official release. This is a bootleg copy.

[@thomastimlin1724]

You had the years wrong: The Beatles played at Shea Stadium in New York City on August 15, 1965 and August 23, 1966. The August 15, 1965 concert was the first major stadium rock concert and the highlight of the band's 1965 tour

[@rjaraneta913]

Watch The Beatles Anthology, an 8 volume DVD set of their career from the very beginning to the end.

[@jnagarya519]

"Dizzy Miss Lizzy" was originally by R&Ber Larry Williams.

[@ittamandarano289]

Going to come out soon will be a film about making one of their last albums. The beatles themselves made a couple of movies early days that pretty good that are easy to find: A Hard Day's Night and Help! Their so much fun

[@patticrichton1135]

Came back again to watch this, and see if I could hear it, the sound is GONE right after Dizzy Miss Lizzy and can't even here YOU talk either, what happened?

[@pigeondance687]

there are a couple of biopics about the members of the beatles, "nowhere boy" for example, about john lennon's childhood, which i quite liked. but there's no biopics about actual beatles which is quite baffling since they're like the most influential band in history. so yeah i would really really want one (and instead we got fucking "yesterday" ugh)

[@patticrichton1135]

There''s "BIRTH OF THE BEATLES" from 1979 which was on ABC in the States (with actors) which covers their time before they were famous to when they made their first album and ends with their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Also "BACKBEAT' which covers their period in Hamburg, Germany and the gigs they did there, and ends just as they become famous. Again, with actors. There are other movies with actors on the Beatles, but aren't really biopics as such, but are still good. Just do research on line. Look it up

[@spreet65]

There is a better version of this after the movie by Ron Howard "Eight Days a Week", where the managed to lower the volume of screams & enhance the sound. Definitely worth a watch if you can find it.

[@mokrodog]

Subscribed. They couldnt hear themselves cuz all these girls were screaming so fucking loud. if you want to listen to a performace where they could hear themselves listen to DONT LET DOWN on the rooftop its a banger dude

[@MillsyLM]

This has had work done to it. The Beatles went into a studio early in Jan 66 to overdub some of the vocals you hear. The first song (Twist And Shout) has had the studio version crudely inserted into it. Usually the Hollywood Bowl version was used. You are correct about the second song regarding the syncing. There was no footage of the song (She's A Woman) so that montage was used because the audio existed.

[@TheGroucho66]

The thing with The Beatles and trying to get a sense of their "sound" is that it's difficult to condense into just a handful of song recommendations. They made 13 albums within just 7 years and the genres and sounds they explored went from simplistic pop-rock and rockabilly, through to folk, baroque, classical, jangle rock, psychedelia, avant-garde, music hall, ska, hard rock, and blues. I tend to think of The Beatles going through four fairly distinct periods: Their first period was pop-rock/rockabilly; simple, catchy, fun songs. This can be found in their first three albums (Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Days Night). A couple of songs to check out from that period would be 'She Loves You', 'I Saw Her Standing There' and 'A Hard Days Night'. Next is their folk/jangle/marijuana period which includes their next three albums: 'Beatles For Sale', 'Help!', and 'Rubber Soul'. They started branching out, musically and lyrically here; influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan as well as having more depth to the lyrics. A couple of songs to check out from that period would be 'Help!', 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away', and 'In My Life'. Next is their psychedelic/experimental/LSD period which includes their next three albums: 'Revolver', 'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band', and 'Magical Mystery Tour'. This is where The Beatles had quit touring and focused all their attention and abilities on the studio album. Influenced by the counter-culture, LSD, musical experimentation, we find The Beatles at their creative peak with groundbreaking songs. A couple of songs to check out from that period would be 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'A Day in the Life', 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'I Am The Walrus'. Next is their eclectic/blues period which includes their next three albums: 'The Beatles (White Album)', 'Abbey Road', and 'Let It Be'. The Beatles were beginning to find their own interests and forming their own goals individually, which meant that the songs themselves started to feel like solo-efforts, and the sound becomes more fractured (not necessarily in a bad way). A couple of songs to check out from that period would be 'Helter Skelter', 'Because', and 'Don't Let Me Down'. Of course, the choices I made don't perfectly capture The Beatles but it does at least give an impression of their development. I urge you to check out more though. Sorry for the essay. I hope this helps.

[@patticrichton1135]

Why does the sound keep cutting out?

[@fothebo1]

Need to see Ron Howard's 8 days a week. It has a clean version of this concert. Also new beatles movie coming out in 2021 that is supposed to be great.

[@peterbooth793]

I remember seeing this concert on video when I was a teenager and what I thought was funny about it was that they came on earlier than they were supposed to because the opening band was getting booed. Not because they were bad but because they wanted the Beatles not the other band. Kinda funny but sad too.

[@docgonzales]

If you want to listen to the best live performance of the beatles you cant go past the 1964 australian concert at festival hall. Channel 9 had rights to film on tv cameras, the sound is impeccable, they were a powerhouse band which is not really captured here.

[@bbbfst]

Yes, it was 1965. (The Beatles broke up in 1970.) The sound of this isn't really from the concert itself for the most part. Portions were rerecorded later, others had overdubs, as there were massive problems with the recording that night. Obviously. But the crowd didn't seem to care -- of course, if you look at the sound system, you know that the crowd probably couldn't hear most of it anyway.

[@FortWorthFabian]

okok

[@wc.1212]

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[@sejrec56]

Is the audio cutting in and out?

[@garyfletcher844]

Fullsail Univ. is a good, but expensive school. I wanted to go there.

[@thomastimlin1724]

"You would have thought the Beatles walked on stage the way they were reacting Michael Jackson" would be more correct since the Beatles came before Michael Jackson. just as you could say you would have thought Elvis walked on stage the way they are reacting to the Beatles, since Elvis came first. it's all relative to chronology and the time period you were brought up in. As is Frank Sinatra before Elvis.

[@Calers-gu1ib]

The Announcer Ed Sullivan was the biggest TV host of his time. Normally if an act for his show was performing in another city he would show the live performance on the show. Showing live performances on your show in those days was cut edge tech. So I think this may be the first time he went to the venue to announce someone. From what I remember through this time period after Michael Jackson left his Brothers he was just another singer for years til the Thriller album came out then suddenly he was announced as the King of Rock and he had crowds like this. A lot of singers thanked God Quincy Jones existed back then

[@DavidGigg]

Trust me, a lot more female reaction than when Michael Jackson took the stage.

[@jnagarya519]

They arrived for the concert by helicopter.

[@ishpadful]

Ironically, u mentioned about artists copying or borrowing from each other? In the beginning, the British music invasion included bands that covered blues from black, early-time artists! The Beatles covered many black artists like Chuck Berry, The Isley Brothers, The Marvelettes, etc. John Lennon in particular had several songs he covered and did rather well, like Ben E. King's STAND BY ME, Isley Brothers TWIST&SHOUT. He loved Larry Williams songs! Matter of fact, in this video, he does Larry Williams' DIZZY MISS LIZZY. Lots of respect to black artists from the Beatles. I loved that about them, otherwise, I'd never known their music. KZbin has all these artists that we can now freely view & enjoy!

[@brandonflorida1092]

It must be hard to understand the Beatles' influence without living through rock before, during, and after them. All modern rock groups are descended from the Beatles, and had they not come along, it's even possible that rock, which was then just a minor genre, might not have survived. Furthermore, their influence on Western culture is incalculable. For one minor example, they made it possible, for the first time in many decades, for a man to walk down the street with hair significantly longer than a crew cut without people thinking he was insane. I know this all is hard to believe if you weren't there. I'll respond to any challenges with more details.

[@catnc1]

A lot of people react to the Beatles, but it never gets old. As far as copyright, just stop and start the music and it should be okay.

[@garyfletcher844]

The Beatles started in 1960, and before then, John Lennon had a band called the Quarrymen in 1956

[@craigproctor9560]

You should watch the Beatles anthology documentary

[@jnagarya519]

Where's the sound!?

[@ianjackson7294]

What's with the sound cutting out in places? Don't you check your vids before releaing them?

[@Calers-gu1ib]

Some of the songs sounded rough because they couldn't hear anything but the screaming. I do believe most of the sound here is from someone removing the screaming so you can hear them

[@brandonflorida1092]

Per your request, my favorite Beatles song is "It Won't Be Long," from early in their career.

[@jnagarya519]

It was August, 1965. Where's the sound?

[@LoveCats9220]

Sorry, but I disagree. As big a star as MJ was there really was no comparison between him and the Beatles. They couldn’t hear each other or even themselves during this concert

[@phyllispetras3369]

Any video with NO comments?

[@MrKeychange]

Is part 2 available anywhere?

[@JustVinnyBlues]

The Beatles hated doing these gigs in stadiums. The sound systems were not what they are today, and they literally could not here themselves playing as the screaming was so loud all the time. That's why they stopped touring. They also had to be rushed on and off the stage. PROBABLY THIS IS A DUB OVER -- because in the original you cannot hear anything.

[@susanelkins3068]

Is this the 1st time you have heard the Beatles sing? Or just seeing them?

[@DanielJacksonMusic]

3:29 I think that's dubbed over

[@annekayser8042]

Its not the crowd noise was as loud as it could get

[@paulknight9998]

Please react to "Paul McCartney - Fuh You"

[@garyfletcher844]

If you are going to binge upload Beatles, Start with the Revolver album.

[@patticrichton1135]

NO, he should start with their FIRST album and go chronologically!! Would you tell someone about a great book that was extremely popular and then tell them to read starting in the middle of the book, and NOT the beginning???

[@danarplayer2425]

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