The Beatles played just once concert on this night, before 13,909 fans. It was their only visit to the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
The venue opened in November 1928, and was originally named the Boston Madison Square Garden. It was located at North Station on Causeway Street, and hosted ice hockey and basketball games, as well as concerts, boxing, wrestling, circuses and other events. It closed in 1997, and was succeeded by the FleetCenter, later known as TD Garden.
The other acts on the bill on this night were, in order of appearance, The Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry, and Jackie DeShannon.
The Beatles performed their standard 12-song set: ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘You Can’t Do That’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘She Loves You’, ‘Things We Said Today’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, ‘If I Fell’, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, ‘Boys’, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’.
The Beatles returned to Boston on just one other occasion, playing at Suffolk Downs Racetrack during their final tour on 18 August 1966.
Also on this day...
- 2024: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Astro Amphitheater, La Vista
- 2024: Seven Beatles US albums to be reissued in new mono vinyl box set
- 2017: Paul McCartney live: Prudential Center, Newark
- 2013: The Beatles: On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 is announced
- 2005: UK album release: Chaos And Creation In The Backyard by Paul McCartney
- 1975: Wings live: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
- 1969: John Lennon decides to leave The Beatles
- 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are interviewed for various publications
- 1968: Recording: Glass Onion
- 1967: Filming: Magical Mystery Tour
- 1963: Recording: Messages to Australia, Hold Me Tight, Don’t Bother Me, Little Child, I Wanna Be Your Man
- 1962: The Beatles live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (evening)
- 1960: The Beatles live: Indra Club, Hamburg
- 1959: The Quarrymen live: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
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I attended this Concert – stood in front of John Lennon the entire time:)
There is a Photo of this Concert that made Front Page on some Boston News Paper .. which may not be in Business anymore –
Any help locating Front Page Photos of This Concert .. Appreciated!!
I was at the concert too! As one is standing right in front of the stage…I was in the left front row. Great story just how we (with 4 friends) ever got to sit in the front row! Great time! Great memories! I have two different pictures of the Beatles singing…a little blurry, but very cool! Right after the Beatles left the stage (at the end of the concert)I ran up to the stage and managed to get a Boston Policeman to reach up onto the stage and grab a “Beatles” hat right off the stage for me! Whether it was one of their hats, I will never know. I thought it was John’s cap… but not sure of that. I was in my senior year of High School and I will never forget that night!!!
I was only 7,…. sittin at home in Brockton,,….. saw them disembark the plane at Logan on the news………….no way could I go,………SOOOO envious, lol.
I was 11 at the time and I had to fight to go. My oldest sister promised to protect me. As it turned out another of my sisters punched me in my eye–she was charging into the crowd as someone yelled “there they are!” Not so.
We got into the show thanks to my Boston Police detective busting a scalper (12 hot tickets), and this lead to a phone call to our house–“anyone want to go to the Beatles?” That’s when the madness started. AWESOME.
I too remember that wonderful day! I was in the balcony with my best friend Patti. We won the tickets on radio station WORC and I will never forget the experience!
How cool!!I love these songs I was going to be born two days after that concert, my mother had me on 15 September.
I was six years old, my brother was eight, my mom and dad where way cool!!!! sat up in the heavens, the only thing I remember is hearing the first 3 or 4 chords….then the screaming….the loudest thing ive ever been to!!!!
I was 13 years old when I saw the Beatles at Boston Garden on September 12, 1964. My mother had been given 4 free tickets the night before so my 11 year old brother and a friend and me along with my mother went. The memories of that night have lasted a lifetime. We were in row 7, center stage in front of George. I still have my ticket stub with paper confetti that was set off at the end of the show. The next day I realized that those 4 free tickets were also passes to the press conference that we missed. The Boston Globe ran a front page article and photo of the audience and because I had to stand on a chair to see above the crowd I was in the picture. I saw them again on August 18, 1966 at Suffolk Downs which was also a great experience but lacked some of the excitement of the previous show.
Three High school buddies and I bought 4 bogus tickets from a scalper on Causeway St. We paid $8 ea. and even had a cop verify their authenticity. He said they looked legit. We didn’t know they were fake tickets until the people in our seats showed us their ticket Stubbs. It really didn’t matter, when the Beatles took the stage it was pure mayhem! Nobody stayed at their seats anyway.
I was 17. The Beatles helped me recover from the tragic loss of President Kennedy almost a year before. I was not a screamer or an hysterical teenager, but I loved (love) their music.
I will always be a fan.
JD
Wish I was old enough to have been there. But was only 8 at the time. But I’ve seen Paul @Fenway Park seen Ringo, Pete Best, The Quarrymen. And now I tell people that I just have to see John and George. One day.
I was only 7 yrs. old….watched them disembark the plane at Logan, on the TV news………No way could I go,…….I’m SOOOOO envious of anyone that did…….every time we’d drive by the now demolished Madison Hotel…(and its flashing giant ‘M’), located right net to the Boston Garden,…I would tell myself the Beatles ACTUALLY stayed right there!,….then go on with a 7 yr old’s imagination of everything that was Beatlemania. Would love to hear from Beatle fans.
I just bought a Beatles picture postcard signed on the back by all four of the boys the night of the BG concert. It is signed “to Diane with love”. Diane apparently ran food to them in the Green Room while they waited their turn to go on. I am told her Dad was part of a security group at the Gardens.
I also was at this concert, I was 13. I remember at the end 1 Beatle stayed on stage, I think Paul. The other lads came back and carried him off
My mom and aunt took me, my two brothers, and two cousins to the concert. I was eight years old. I was already a Beatles fanatic. Incredible night that is etched in my memory. I learned that night that if you put your fingers in your ears it blocks out some extraneous noise and allows you to hear the musicians better. It worked to block out all the screaming teenage girls, including my late cousin, who was 5 years older than me. She was madly in love with Ringo and screamed and cried the entire concert. I spent the whole concert with my fingers in my ears. I am a musician now and still use that technique to hear myself over the band when singing a critical vocal.
I was at show behind stage a jumped barriers when the pandemonium erupted landing 75feet center stage and this concert changed the direction of my life
I was 15.
The HUGEST Beatle fan on earth. My Dad, a Boston Policeman, refused to allow me to go saying, I would be trampled, besides I didn’t have any money for the ticket. Cried all day. BUT my best friend’s next door neighbor, who had a crush on her, gave her the MONEY FOR TWO TICKETS!!!!!! I lied to my parents, said I was babysitting for a neighbor and snuck out ….The subway was packed with beatlemaniacs just like us. BEST NIGHT EVER!!!!! Screamed and cried the whole night. Will never, ever forget.
I was at this concert. My aunt lived in the Boston area and managed to get two tickets—front row left of stage. We lived in Wisconsin at the time so my mom and I flew out there. My aunt made a sign for me that said “I flew 1500 miles to see the Beatles “ and a reporter saw it and I got my name in the paper the next day. I still have the stubs, the newspaper article and the black and white pictures. I saw them again in Chicago and I have been privileged to see Sir Paul in concert 4 times. I am 74 years old and I count those as some of the highlights of my life.