{"id":30143,"date":"2024-08-15T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-15-1965-the-beatles-headline-new-yorks-shea-stadium\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:05:13","slug":"on-this-day-aug-15-1965-the-beatles-headline-new-yorks-shea-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-15-1965-the-beatles-headline-new-yorks-shea-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 15, 1965: The Beatles headline New York\u2019s Shea Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-15\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 15, 1965 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Beatles<\/strong> performed in front of over 55,000 fans at New York\u2019s Shea Stadium, which at the time was not only the largest concert for the band, but the largest concert audience ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0Fab Four treated fans to such songs as \u201cTwist and Shout,\u201d \u201cTicket to Ride,\u201d \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night,\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love\u201d and \u201cHelp!\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A documentary about the concert, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Beatles at Shea Stadium<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, was released in March 1966, featuring footage from the concert and the events that led up to it, including the mass hysteria of fans during the height of Beatlemania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 15, 1965 &#8230; The Beatles performed in front of over 55,000 fans at New York\u2019s Shea Stadium, which at the time was not only the largest concert for the band, but the largest concert audience ever. The\u00a0Fab Four treated fans to such songs as \u201cTwist and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-15-1965-the-beatles-headline-new-yorks-shea-stadium\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}