The seventh date of The Beatles' final tour took place at the Suffolk Downs Racetrack in Boston, Massachusetts, where they gave one concert before 25,000 people.
The concert began at 8pm. The Beatles had previously played in Boston on 12 September 1964 at the Boston Garden. This time they were in the middle of a horse racing course.
The support acts during The Beatles' final tour were The Remains, Bobby Hebb, The Cyrkle and The Ronettes. The group's set consisted of 11 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.
After the show The Beatles and their entourage stayed at a Boston hotel. They left the city at 11.30am the following morning and flew to Memphis, Tennessee.
My father took me to this concert, I was 11 yrs old. I remember screaming and a little bit of music in the backgroud.
I was in the Navy and my ship was in the yards in Chelsey Mass. Myself and 2 of my buddies went into Chelsey to Stanleys Bar to celebrate one my friends birthday. Old Stanley would serve anyone in uniform. He mentioned he thought we would be out at the track watching the Beatles. We new nothing of them being in town. Went rode the train out to the track but found no tickets were available and we could not get in to the show. We were leaving feeling down because we could not get in. A policeman saw us and asked what the problem was? We told him we couldn't get tickets to get in. He saw we were in uniform and he said he would get us in. He took us down toward the front and asked people to slide down the bench style seats and make room for us. They did and we got to watch the show. When the Beatles entered they came down the track in 4 Limo's and one Beatle got out of each Limo to go to the small stage. Numerous people tried to cross the track to touch the band or whatever and police on horseback would run them down and collar them and lead them off the track. It was very hard to hear them over the screams ofthe girls in the audience. My wife and I just returned from the Paul McCartney "Band on the Run" tour at Wrigly field 10/1/2011. and it was great to see Paul again 45 years later. What a change in the soundstage and performance 45 years later. Great Show thanks Paul.
Wow, great story. I hope get to see Paul if he comes back to Boston (area).
The Beatles played Long Tall Sally at this concert, according to the tape I've heard.
I doubt they ever played I'm Down on the '66 North American tour. They certainly played it in Germany and Japan (and presumably The Phillipines) but there's no indication it was played on any of the North American dates and the setlist famously taped to Paul's '63 Hofner has "Long Tall" as the final song.
It makes sense - they struggled with I'm Down in Germany. It's nice to think they played Long Tall Sally instead of I'm Down at the final show but I suspect that's just a myth.
There is footage of them playing "I'm Down" at Shea Stadium.
One of my best friend's mum was at this show. I plan on asking her to write down her memories of the gig.