60 Years Ago Today: The Beatles Played the First-Ever Major Stadium Rock Concert originally appeared on Parade. Six decades ago, the loudest sound in New York wasn’t a jet overhead—it was 55,600 fans ...
Sixty years ago today, on Aug. 15, 1965, the Beatles played Shea Stadium in New York, and the world has never recovered. It was the biggest pop explosion the world had ever seen, with 56,000 kids ...
It took 29 months to plan and construct Shea Stadium and it wasn’t even fully complete when the Mets hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 17, 1964. At the time, the planes flying into LaGuardia ...