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Rolling Stone: Why the Beatles' Shea Stadium Show Was Even Greater Than You Knew
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/why-the-beatles-shea-stadium-show-was-even-greater-than-you-knew-20150814-snip-
Leaving festivals like Woodstock and Monterey aside, there is no more famous gig in rock & roll history than when the Beatles played Shea Stadium, an orange and blue ass pit of a venue in front of 56,000 mostly teenyboppers on August 15th, 1965. It is a gig one might even term infamous, for all of the misunderstanding it has generated over the years, with one old saw after another getting parroted in the various histories of rock
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