60 years...

[Godot51]

On August 18th, 1965, the Beatles played at Atlanta-Fulton County stadium.

Tickets were $5.50, I still have my stub.

[johnp3907]

1. I thought this was going to be about my birthday tomorrow.

Oh well. The Beatles are good too, I guess.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. happy bday.

[Permanut]

7. We just can't believe that you're 60.

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

They changed the world.

[wcmagumba]

3. Cool keepsake, I remember my sisters got b&w Beatles cards in packages with a stick of gum...fun days...

[relayerbob]

5. My wife was there, also!

And also has her stubs, she just showed me.

[Permanut]

6. My Wife is still mad that her Dad wouldn't let her..

go to their concert in Portland, Oregon in, I wanto say, 1964, when she was 10 years old.

And her Dad has been gone for 20 years.

Disclaimer ther than that, he was a great guy.

[dflprincess]

11. My cousin & I were 12

My aunt dropped us off in front of the stadium and told us where to be when the concert was over. Can you imagine letting a couple of 12 years go into a concert by themselves now?

And I know several people whose parents did the same thing that night. It was a different time.

[Beatlelvr]

8. I wish I had kept my stubs!

I was only 13 but I knew these guys were on to something.

[Grins]

9. Kool. Hope u r watching the Beatles documentary on PBS

Title: “Deconstructing the Beatles.”

Saw part 1 last week . FASCINATING!!!

[dflprincess]

10. August 21, 1965 they played Minneapolis at Metropolitan Stadium

current site of the Mall of America (so technically, they were in Bloomington, MN)

And I still have my stub! I can misplace my glasses, the remote, or my phone several timea a day, but in 60 years, I've always known where that stub is.

Sir Paul is coming to town in October. Ticket prices for his concert are running around $350 - $1100. My cousin & were laughing that we paid $5.50 each to see all 4 Beatles and, even when adjusted for inflation, the ticket would still be only $56.41 each.



(Yes, yes, yes I know there's a lot more that goes into the show now)

[Iggo]

12. I was a month away from starting kindergarten.

Kids my age pretty much accepted that that’s how music was supposed to sound.

We had no idea how spoiled we were.

[electric_blue68]

13. I was at Shea Stadium 8/15/65....

Got tix through my good friend's father. Her older brother chaperoned us.

Yeah, I screamed. 😄 Had a great time.
Didn't hear that much.

Then we went in '66. By a mystery - this was told decades late by Little Steven (Van Zant)(Silvio), and we were in that same section along the first baseline - somehow by some Sonic Fluke we could hear them clearly despite the screaming.

[Warpy]

14. I saw Ringo Starr's show, I guess it was 2019 just before Covid hit

He was always the best showman and even as a geezer rocker, he still had his chops. (n fact, he was a much better drummer than I remembered.

I had to get the first look at The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show along with most of the country. I didn't know what the fuss was all about, there was a blond kid with heavy glasses in the audience looking bored to death, probably because he couldn't hear anything over all the ear splitting shrieking from repressed teenybopper girls. I knew just how he felt.

It wasn't until Rubber Soul and Revolver came out that I turned into a fan.

[electric_blue68]

16. I saw Ringo's All Star show in the very late 90's, or maaaybe 2000.......

It qas a fluke that I caught l the news they were playing at an outdoor venue for free, down near Coney Island Amusement Park. A bit of a trek by subway but worth it! Todd Rundgren was part of it.
It was great fun!

They also did versions of Beatles' songs post 1966 (last US tour). I was thinking while there - why hadn't i heard these.
Well, duhhhh, they'd stopped touring!

Poor Harrison was fighting cancer at that point.

[aggiesal]

15. You could have gotten $25 in the after market ...

But you'd have to give $10 to the broker