40 years ago today.......

[TheWalrus]

40 years ago today the Fab Four played their last live gig.

TheWalrus

[EuanB]

Good gig though this thread should be in The Beatles Room

[girl]

There is some info on it in the Beatles Room ono.proboards15.com/index.cgi?board=LOVER&action=display&thread=310

But great concert & they should do it again as a tribute!

[TheWalrus]

Wouldn't that be fabulous Girl.

TheWalrus

[TheWalrus]

I heard on the radio that the Bootleg Beatles were to recreate the moment but were prevented by H and S.

TheWalrus

[restlesswind]

This is the concert from anthology video. They all look so happy!

[Dr Winston]

I moved this topic to The Beatles Room, as euanb suggested.

This is the original link about the cancellation of the 40th anniversary of the Rooftop Concert & the Bootleg Beatles playing in Savile Row 10 years ago!

Thanks for adding the great video restlesswind.

[New York City]

A History: Rooftop Concert

It was the first live public performance by the band since the end of their last tour, on August 29, 1966, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. However, agreeing on a format for the live show proved problematic. Paul McCartney suggested playing a small club, like the Beatles had in the early days. John Lennon suggested an overseas location such as Africa (although he also expressed a sarcastic desire to perform the show in an asylum). Ringo Starr held out for staying home in England. George Harrison showed little enthusiasm for any live performance at all.

After failing to agree on any other venue, the band settled for an unannounced concert atop their own building, Apple's headquarters in Savile Row near Piccadilly Circus. The Beatles, accompanied by Preston, performed on January 30, 1969 — intercut in the film with interviews of some rather surprised Londoners near the Apple headquarters as the music blasts out from the roof. The performance and the film close with the police arriving and shutting the concert down. The rooftop concert has been a popular bootleg ever since, and was to be the final public performance by the Beatles.

The Beatles played five songs during the rooftop performance: "Get Back" (three times), "Don't Let Me Down" (twice), "I've Got a Feeling" (twice), "One After 909", and "Dig a Pony". (The Beatles also played a brief version of the British national anthem, "God Save the Queen" and a brief rehearsal of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" while second engineer Alan Parsons was changing tapes. Those performances were omitted from the film.)

After the final song, McCartney says, "Thanks, Mo!" acknowledging the enthusiastic applause and cheering from Maureen Starkey. Then Lennon closes with his well-known remark, "I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition!" This exchange was spliced on to the end of the Let It Be album.

[DayTripper]

I love that video.

[TheWalrus]

Great video Restlesswind.

TheWalrus

[NowhereMan]

good video


a shame the moment couldn't be recreated

[mojo]

Did anybody read that they are selling that building today?

The Apple building where The Beatles performed for the last time has been put up for sale, with its owners expecting to sell it for £25 million.

The five-storey building at 3 Savile Row, London, is the former headquarters of the Beatles' Apple Corps in the late 1960s after the band bought it for £500,000.

Owners Kier Property plan to sell it for office space but they believe the Beatles conenction will send the value up.
"I still get goose bumps in here. It's the world' biggest piece of memorabilia. "

[EuanB]

I hear theres going to be a plaque at Savile Road and Paul & Ringo are going to unvail it.

[restlesswind]

The Beatles roof top concert was recreated in london but at another place!?

www.gazette.uwo.ca/article.cfm?section=Arts&articleID=2051&month=02&day=03&year=2009