San Francisco • Monday, August 29, 1966

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From Wikipedia:

The Beatles made an unannounced live appearance on the roof of their London Apple office at Saville Row on January 30th, 1969 but their final paid live concert took place on August 29th, 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. Only 25,000 tickets were sold despite the fact that Candlestick Park has a capacity for 42,500 people. A local company called Tempo Productions was in charge of the arrangement and due to the low ticket sales and other expenses this concert resulted in a loss for them. At 9:27pm the Beatles finally took the stage and proceeded to play eleven songs: “Rock And Roll Music“, “She’s A Woman“, “If I Needed Someone“, “Day Tripper”, “Baby’s In Black“, “I Feel Fine“, “Yesterday“, “I Wanna Be Your Man“, “Nowhere Man“, “Paperback Writer” and “Long Tall Sally“. Knowing that this would be their last concert, members of the band took measures of their own to capture their last moments on stage. Each brought a camera and McCartney asked Beatles’ press agent Tony Barrow to successfully make a rough audio tape recording from the field. The recording of this final concert is now widely circulated on bootlegs. “Long Tall Sally” on the bootlegs is not complete, as Barrow didn’t flip the tape over during the show then the song was cut off. Barrow gave the original tape of the Candlestick Park concert to McCartney. He also made a single copy, which was kept in a locked drawer in Barrow’s office desk. The Beatles were quickly taken to the airport in an armoured car. They flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles, arriving at 12.50am. During the flight George Harrison was heard to exclaim: “That’s it, then. I’m not a Beatle anymore.“

Paul McCartney returned to Candlestick Park in 2014 for his Out There tour, the last-ever concert there before its demolition.

From paulmccartney.com, August 14, 2014:

Paul McCartney took the crowd of 50,000 at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on a magical mystery tour back through time at tonight’s historic ‘Farewell To Candlestick: The Final Concert’.

During a rarely performed rendition of Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ — the last song to be performed in its entirety at The Beatles’ August 29, 1966 final concert at the same venue — the crowd was transported back to that very same night courtesy of a collection of previously unreleased photographs by the late Jim Marshall.

The only photographer to be granted unfettered access to photograph The Beatles’ last ever concert, Marshall’s images were granted this exclusive usage by Paul for his bittersweet goodbye to this iconic ballpark. […]

Jim Marshall is world-renowned as the pioneer of rock-and-roll photography. A principal photographer at Woodstock, and the only photographer allowed backstage at The Beatles’ last concert, he immortalized artists such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane before they became household names. His tools of the trade were a manual Leica camera and unlimited access to the artists. This allowed Marshall to capture some of the most iconic images in music history, and In 2014 Marshall became the first photographer ever to receive the GRAMMY Trustees Award for his body of work.  Marshall passed away in 2010, and gave his iconic and inspired archive to his long-time assistant and friend Amelia Davis, who keeps Marshall’s legacy alive and thriving.

Last updated on February 6, 2021

Candlestick Park

This was the 1st concert played at Candlestick Park.

A total of 2 concerts have been played there • 1966 • Aug 29th • 2014 • Aug 14th

Setlist for the concert

Links

• https://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/08/29/candlestick-park-san-francisco-final-concert/
• http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/remembering-beatles-final-concert-w436179