Great story. Sounds absolutely incredible. Reminds me of seeing it as a kid for the first time on TV in what had to be, 1971. My adrenaline was pumping with excitement. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing story! I remember seeing it on TV back in 1966... and when Ron Howard's Eight Days A Week was at the theater as a bonus, I saw the film again on the big screen. It sure would be nice to have it remastered and put on blu-ray.
What an absolutely terrific story, Matthew!! I just love so much your excitement and enthusiasm. And thank you for answering a question I’ve had in my mind for quite some time. I could never remember the year the TV special was shown. I know I watched it at the time because I can still see myself sitting at the dining room table in our house. We watched the show The Time Tunnel and then The Beatles at Shea Stadium. It was so exciting. Now I know for sure it was 1966! Never thought to do a search for it, ha. 😂 I was so disappointed that the Ron Howard film didn’t include the Shea Stadium concert on the DVD. I saw it in the theater, but there’s nothing like being able to watch it again and again, like on a DVD. I’m sure hoping and praying that 2025 brings us this gift as part of a 60th anniversary celebration. Thanks again, Matt, for this great video!
Basically 1/2 hr. set, total pandamaonium . Never seen anything like it at this time. Love the story Matt. If I don't get back to you again . Yes she's Barbara Bach prior to Ringo. . Happy New Year To you & your family. Peace.😀✌🎵
Thanks for watching Lengo, I'm glad you enjoyed the story! Happy New Year to you and your family as well! I got confused with Barbara’s maiden name! Ha ha! 😁🎼🎶⛄️🍻❄️✌️🎶
Damn you tell the best stories....Remembrances....historical eventualities....whatever. That's a wonderful moment you shared with us and thanx a mil. So wish what you watched was out there for everyone to watch - especially how that film could be cleaned up and presented "New" to all us all. I bet you'd get that feeling again if it were enhanced to a modern quality. I remember getting to see Lennon Live in NYC on the big screen at a showing somewhere...I'd already seen the VHS version, but being able to watch it on film and in a room with like-minded people made such a big difference. Also when "Rock Show" was finally cleaned up and released on digital media, we had a showing on our own "big screen" with family and friends...Yes, I understand about that time travel thing. Thanx again for this post. Wonderful as always. Until next time, take care.....And Yes, I stood in line at Best Buy in 1995 waiting ever so excitedly for the clock to turn 12 A.M. to be one of the first in my neighborhood to grab a copy of Anthology 1 on CD. A good Trip down memory lane. Til the next one, Godspeed my friend.
You are so right Kincaide! I went to see Rockshow all cleaned up at the theater with a great friend! We were mesmerized! I’d love to see Shea again in this manner! Lennon in NYC would be great too! I stood in line at Tower Records in Boston for Anthology 1!! Ha! We think alike!!! 🎵🎶🍻⛄️❄️🎼❤️🎊🎉
Hi Matt! I absolutely enjoyed this Shea Stadium BEATLES concert story! Great memory for you and the guys! This has a lot of meaning to me as well, because that's where my favorite baseball team..The METS, used to play for many years from 1964-2008! Enjoy your week and Happy New Year 2025! 🍻 Allan
Matthew that was absolutely incredible and you we're so young. And just love how you talk about getting everybody together having food and drinks and Gathering people around the big sheet on the wall, yeah that's how we used to show them on our wall back in the day too. And we thought it was amazing. Kids today would go that's all you got Grandma? But I have somehow managed to never be able to see this film, and now I just have to. I've seen other films about The Beatles performing one particular in Australia which was pretty good. But this to me proves what the Beatles were /are and will always be. You could gather teenagers around a giant sheet project The Beatles on it, and no it wasn't the alcohol Matthew it was the magic of The Beatles And You Know It. All of us Beatle people know that. They were magical and what it is I find about the Beatles is that it doesn't matter what kind of music you like, it doesn't matter who you are, you cannot watch those four guys on stage performing and not be affected. That's how we're going to tell the humans from the aliens someday Matthew it's going to be the aliens won't get it and the humans will. I had this same sort of thing happened to me with a friend that I had a few years ago. And I was celebrating my 65th birthday, and I was getting along with this this lady who lived in my building and she wasn't really much of a Beatles fan and she didn't really think okay Beatles whatever. And she was like you know younger than me too, but we had a really good friendship, and I said well why don't you get the Beatles? And she's like well it just wasn't part of my upbringing. And she started asking me all kind of questions about why I did. Now at the party there may have been a Beatles album in the mix, but we were playing all kinds of music. Because believe it or not I do like other bands I know hard to believe but it's true. But I don't like anybody as much as I love the Beatles though. So I said have you ever seen "A Hard Day's Night" she goes A Hard Day's what? I said "A Hard Day's Night" Jennifer and she said no and I said oh you have to see this, then youll understand. So it was probably well after midnight getting close to 1:00 in the morning, everyone else was hone. Because she just lived upstairs she had a short elevator ride home. So we were just sitting around talking, and I said you're watching "A Hard Day's Night" that's it. So we made some plates of leftovers from the earlier festivities, and I poured us each another glass of wine, and I said now you watch. And I said just watch okay. So she kept asking me questions at the beginning and I said look just we're just going to watch the movie and then we can talk after and she's like okay. So we watched the movie, she laughed God she almost fell off her seat. Maybe we'd had too many bevvies. No we weren't drunk but we were happy. And she's kind of tapping her foot to songs she's probably never heard before, and she goes oh God they were all so cute I said oh yeahthey were they were good-looking guys. Paul and Ringo still are. And she just she says hard to understand their British accents, I said Liverpool and she said okay. I had to keep shushing her finally we just watched. And when it got to the end she looks at me and she goes that's the guys you always talk about I said yeah those are the guys I always talk about. She said is there an album of this, you have to understand she's 20 years younger than me. And I said yeah and she said I've got to get that album I said well sure. And she is now the biggest Beatles fan, well not as big as me and certainly not as big as you, but I single-handedly recruited a new Beatlemaniac that night. What does this prove Matthew? That it doesn't matter who you are, how old you are, whether you were even alive in the 60s, The Beatles had the power to turn anybody into a fan just by being their wonderful selves. Thanks for the story it was absolutely wonderful. Beatles forever right absolutely 💯
@@Venusandjupiteinunion6434 wow VandJ, you just knocked me out with this wonderful, magical, and beautiful post! I was so enthralled reading about your making a friend and watching a hard days night together and getting to the point where they became a true fan! And you even made it a fun party event as I did too! Ha ha! I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to share this wonderful story of the Beatles and their magical nature! and I am so happy you enjoyed my video and story as well. Thank you so much, it’s viewers like you that encourage me and make me want to keep doing this. All my best to you and happy new year! 🎊🎵👍🎼🍻🎶⛄️❤️🎉
Here's one you might not had heard. Steve Van Zandt's ( E Street Band, Little Steven's Garage) wife Maureen was a teenager and one of the girls who charged the field and were apprehended by security. Fun video. Peace and Love, Terry and Julia Tutor
Great story my friend. What was it like the day you found out you got your orders to RAF Bentwaters in the UK? Getting stationed it Beatle Country! I know how I felt when they offered me duty at Naval Personnel Support Detachment in London. Just down the street from the American Embassy in Grosvenor Sq. I thought they were pulling my leg. "Are you shitting me???" I asked. Great memories
Loved your UK assignment story Jake! Awesome! Yeah, it was tough going overseas for over two years as a young 18-year-old, but it made it that much easier that it was going to be in the United Kingdom in Beatle country! Ha ha! I took advantage of it and saw and did things that I’ll probably never do again the rest of my life. Although I do hope to get back over to England before I fail to come down for breakfast one morning! Ha ha! Thanks for your support Jake I really appreciate it. Take care. 🎼🎵🎶⛄️❄️👍🍻
@@matthewstreet1961 - Oh that's right. You were just out of HS. I had already turned 30 a year before my new orders came. I still had my hair! My health. I had a flat right off Marylebone Rd near where Paul & Linda were married.
Navy Brat here... I always found records and tapes cheaper on base than on the outside. Only bought records outside when they didn't have the albums or singles I wanted on base. LOL.
I may be wrong -- but I've long had the understanding that a young Meryl Streep was also in attendance, of course as a fan -- not a young actress or anything.
@@Zholobov1 perhaps I’m remembering the mm size wrong? I thought it was 8mm, with sound. Who knows. The story is what matters, not an old man’s bad memory. Cheers 🎵🎶🍻⛄️❄️
@matthewstreet1961 your story is precious, I'm just wondering if there is 8mm film with a sound track there in existance... I think, not. So 16mm could be more possible. Anyway, happy New Year! 🎄🧨🎇⛄🌨️❄️
Same to you, have a great 2025! You’ve got me thinking about calling my old roommate up and confirming what kind of film it was 🎥 🎞️, maybe he’ll remember! Ha ha! 😆 🎶🎼⛄️❄️🍻🎊🎉❤️🎵
The Beatles ended this great rock and roll concert the way a great rock and roll band would with Paul's hard screaming rock song I'm Down which they played even harder rocking then on the record.
On youtube you can watch The Beatles play to silent audiences who only applauded and cheered at the end for their great live performances, even with the primitive limited sound systems they had at the time, feedback monitors hadn't even been invented yet, When they played in Sweden in 1963,Paris in 1964,Italy in 1965 and in Japan in 1966. And audiences both female and male of ages also were silent during their performances and only applauded at the end, of their 1964,1965 and 1966 New Music Express Poll Winners concerts. And at their last concert on August 29th at Candlestick park recorded on just a little early mid 1960's tape cassette recorder ludicrously at Paul's suggestion which is on several youtube channels, they played great and rocking too. I also met two people and know a third one who saw The Beatles in concert, one woman and one man who were my high school teachers one who saw them in 1966,and one who saw them in 1965 and the other is my second cousin who saw them at the Baltimore Coliseum when she was 16 in 1964, a year before I was even born and she became a psychologist. They all told me that they were close enough to them to see and hear the The Beatles and that they were great. I'm sure that when teenage girls listened to The Beatles records and songs on the radio most of them weren't screaming,they knew what their music sounded like and they loved it.
Beautiful GC! Loved your post. I really enjoyed your insights about the Beatles playing live and your take on the different eras of their live career. Awesome information and memories. Thank you, my friend! 🎊🎼🎵👍⛄️🎶🍻🎉
Great story. Sounds absolutely incredible. Reminds me of seeing it as a kid for the first time on TV in what had to be, 1971. My adrenaline was pumping with excitement. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks my friend, I bet the adrenaline was pumping! I know mine was! Happy New Year! 🎉🎵🎶⛄️🍻❄️👍🎊
Amazing story! I remember seeing it on TV back in 1966... and when Ron Howard's Eight Days A Week was at the theater as a bonus, I saw the film again on the big screen. It sure would be nice to have it remastered and put on blu-ray.
I bet that would be a huge hit with fans Larry! Bring on Shea!!! Happy New Year to you and Mollie !!!🎼🎶🎸🎵⛄️❤️🍻❄️
@@matthewstreet1961 Same to you, Matt! 🙂
@ all my best to you! Thanks for your kindness to everyone here! 🎉😊🎊
Thank you for your service Matt
Thanks for the kind words Alex and happy new year! 🎊🎵👍🎼🍻🎶⛄️❤️🎉
What an absolutely terrific story, Matthew!! I just love so much your excitement and enthusiasm. And thank you for answering a question I’ve had in my mind for quite some time. I could never remember the year the TV special was shown. I know I watched it at the time because I can still see myself sitting at the dining room table in our house. We watched the show The Time Tunnel and then The Beatles at Shea Stadium. It was so exciting. Now I know for sure it was 1966! Never thought to do a search for it, ha. 😂 I was so disappointed that the Ron Howard film didn’t include the Shea Stadium concert on the DVD. I saw it in the theater, but there’s nothing like being able to watch it again and again, like on a DVD. I’m sure hoping and praying that 2025 brings us this gift as part of a 60th anniversary celebration. Thanks again, Matt, for this great video!
Thanks Passion Dreams, I’m so happy I could help and that you enjoyed the video! I’m with you, bring on a proper Shea release! ❤️❄️🎉🎼🎵👍⛄️🎶🍻🎉
Fun video and story!
Thank you sir!! Happy New Year! 🎊⛄️❄️🎼🎶🎵🍻🎉
Awesome story Matt. It has definitely left an indelible memory for you.
It was an amazing experience for sure! I get very excited when I think about it, as you can tell!! Ha ha ha! 🤣 🎸🎶🎵⛄️❄️🍻❤️
Basically 1/2 hr. set, total pandamaonium . Never seen anything like it at this time. Love the story Matt. If I don't get back to you again . Yes she's Barbara Bach prior to Ringo. . Happy New Year To you & your family. Peace.😀✌🎵
Thanks for watching Lengo, I'm glad you enjoyed the story! Happy New Year to you and your family as well! I got confused with Barbara’s maiden name! Ha ha! 😁🎼🎶⛄️🍻❄️✌️🎶
I subscribed just now. You are a cool dude.
I can’t thank you enough! I truly appreciate it my friend! Happy new year! 🎊🎵❤️🎶⛄️❄️🎼🍻🎊🎉
Damn you tell the best stories....Remembrances....historical eventualities....whatever. That's a wonderful moment you shared with us and thanx a mil. So wish what you watched was out there for everyone to watch - especially how that film could be cleaned up and presented "New" to all us all. I bet you'd get that feeling again if it were enhanced to a modern quality. I remember getting to see Lennon Live in NYC on the big screen at a showing somewhere...I'd already seen the VHS version, but being able to watch it on film and in a room with like-minded people made such a big difference. Also when "Rock Show" was finally cleaned up and released on digital media, we had a showing on our own "big screen" with family and friends...Yes, I understand about that time travel thing. Thanx again for this post. Wonderful as always. Until next time, take care.....And Yes, I stood in line at Best Buy in 1995 waiting ever so excitedly for the clock to turn 12 A.M. to be one of the first in my neighborhood to grab a copy of Anthology 1 on CD. A good Trip down memory lane. Til the next one, Godspeed my friend.
You are so right Kincaide! I went to see Rockshow all cleaned up at the theater with a great friend! We were mesmerized! I’d love to see Shea again in this manner! Lennon in NYC would be great too! I stood in line at Tower Records in Boston for Anthology 1!! Ha! We think alike!!! 🎵🎶🍻⛄️❄️🎼❤️🎊🎉
Hi Matt! I absolutely enjoyed this Shea Stadium BEATLES concert story! Great memory for you and the guys! This has a lot of meaning to me as well, because that's where my favorite baseball team..The METS, used to play for many years from 1964-2008! Enjoy your week and Happy New Year 2025! 🍻 Allan
Hey Allan, you're right, the Mets were great at Shea! And so were the Beatles! Happy 2025 my friend! 🎊⛄️👍🍻🎶🎉
@matthewstreet1961 Thanks, Matt! 😊
Matthew that was absolutely incredible and you we're so young. And just love how you talk about getting everybody together having food and drinks and Gathering people around the big sheet on the wall, yeah that's how we used to show them on our wall back in the day too.
And we thought it was amazing. Kids today would go that's all you got Grandma? But I have somehow managed to never be able to see this film, and now I just have to. I've seen other films about The Beatles performing one particular in Australia which was pretty good.
But this to me proves what the Beatles were /are and will always be. You could gather teenagers around a giant sheet project The Beatles on it, and no it wasn't the alcohol Matthew it was the magic of The Beatles And You Know It.
All of us Beatle people know that. They were magical and what it is I find about the Beatles is that it doesn't matter what kind of music you like, it doesn't matter who you are, you cannot watch those four guys on stage performing and not be affected. That's how we're going to tell the humans from the aliens someday Matthew it's going to be the aliens won't get it and the humans will.
I had this same sort of thing happened to me with a friend that I had a few years ago. And I was celebrating my 65th birthday, and I was getting along with this this lady who lived in my building and she wasn't really much of a Beatles fan and she didn't really think okay Beatles whatever.
And she was like you know younger than me too, but we had a really good friendship, and I said well why don't you get the Beatles? And she's like well it just wasn't part of my upbringing. And she started asking me all kind of questions about why I did.
Now at the party there may have been a Beatles album in the mix, but we were playing all kinds of music. Because believe it or not I do like other bands I know hard to believe but it's true. But I don't like anybody as much as I love the Beatles though.
So I said have you ever seen "A Hard Day's Night" she goes A Hard Day's what? I said "A Hard Day's Night" Jennifer and she said no and I said oh you have to see this, then youll understand.
So it was probably well after midnight getting close to 1:00 in the morning, everyone else was hone. Because she just lived upstairs she had a short elevator ride home. So we were just sitting around talking, and I said you're watching "A Hard Day's Night" that's it.
So we made some plates of leftovers from the earlier festivities, and I poured us each another glass of wine, and I said now you watch. And I said just watch okay.
So she kept asking me questions at the beginning and I said look just we're just going to watch the movie and then we can talk after and she's like okay.
So we watched the movie, she laughed God she almost fell off her seat. Maybe we'd had too many bevvies. No we weren't drunk but we were happy. And she's kind of tapping her foot to songs she's probably never heard before, and she goes oh God they were all so cute I said oh yeahthey were they were good-looking guys. Paul and Ringo still are.
And she just she says hard to understand their British accents, I said Liverpool and she said okay. I had to keep shushing her finally we just watched.
And when it got to the end she looks at me and she goes that's the guys you always talk about I said yeah those are the guys I always talk about. She said is there an album of this, you have to understand she's 20 years younger than me.
And I said yeah and she said I've got to get that album I said well sure. And she is now the biggest Beatles fan, well not as big as me and certainly not as big as you, but I single-handedly recruited a new Beatlemaniac that night.
What does this prove Matthew? That it doesn't matter who you are, how old you are, whether you were even alive in the 60s, The Beatles had the power to turn anybody into a fan just by being their wonderful selves. Thanks for the story it was absolutely wonderful. Beatles forever right absolutely 💯
@@Venusandjupiteinunion6434 wow VandJ, you just knocked me out with this wonderful, magical, and beautiful post! I was so enthralled reading about your making a friend and watching a hard days night together and getting to the point where they became a true fan! And you even made it a fun party event as I did too! Ha ha! I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to share this wonderful story of the Beatles and their magical nature! and I am so happy you enjoyed my video and story as well. Thank you so much, it’s viewers like you that encourage me and make me want to keep doing this. All my best to you and happy new year! 🎊🎵👍🎼🍻🎶⛄️❤️🎉
Great story!
Thanks Leonard! It was a fun one to put together! 🎵🎶🎸🎵⛄️❤️🍻❄️
Awesome video have a great day also happy new year from Canada ❤😊
Thanks so much Amin, it’s viewers like you that make this so much fun! Happy 2025! ⛄️❄️👍🎊❤️🎉
Here's one you might not had heard. Steve Van Zandt's ( E Street Band, Little Steven's Garage) wife Maureen was a teenager and one of the girls who charged the field and were apprehended by security. Fun video. Peace and Love, Terry and Julia Tutor
Wow! Great piece of Shea trivia Terry! I did not know that! I love Maureen Van Zandt even more now! Ha! 🎸🎵⛄️❄️🍻🎼🎶❤️
I need a Blu ray box of this in 2025 for its 60th Anniversary and if I don’t get one I will go insane 😂 praying for it 🙏
Yes Teresa!!! I’m with you!!! Bring it on!! 🎶🍻🎼⛄️❄️❤️🎵🎉🎊
Great story my friend. What was it like the day you found out you got your orders to RAF Bentwaters in the UK? Getting stationed it Beatle Country! I know how I felt when they offered me duty at Naval Personnel Support Detachment in London. Just down the street from the American Embassy in Grosvenor Sq. I thought they were pulling my leg. "Are you shitting me???" I asked. Great memories
Loved your UK assignment story Jake! Awesome! Yeah, it was tough going overseas for over two years as a young 18-year-old, but it made it that much easier that it was going to be in the United Kingdom in Beatle country! Ha ha! I took advantage of it and saw and did things that I’ll probably never do again the rest of my life. Although I do hope to get back over to England before I fail to come down for breakfast one morning! Ha ha! Thanks for your support Jake I really appreciate it. Take care. 🎼🎵🎶⛄️❄️👍🍻
@@matthewstreet1961 - Oh that's right. You were just out of HS. I had already turned 30 a year before my new orders came. I still had my hair! My health. I had a flat right off Marylebone Rd near where Paul & Linda were married.
@@jake105 very cool Jake! Wishing you. Happy 2025! 🎵🎶🍻⛄️❄️🎼🎉🎊🇬🇧
Navy Brat here... I always found records and tapes cheaper on base than on the outside. Only bought records outside when they didn't have the albums or singles I wanted on base. LOL.
Yes my friend you’re so right! Off base we definitely had to spend more on our records. Cheers! 🍻🎼🎵⛄️❄️🎶❤️🎊🎉
Actually, The Beatles At Shea Stadium film wasn't shown on U.S. TV until January of 1967. Take Care, Marc.
Ok Marc, thanks for the clarification. Happy 2025. 🎉🍻❤️❄️⛄️👍🎶🎵🎊
@@matthewstreet1961 You too!
Must be one of the very rare counties I haven't run in England !!
It was in Suffolk, east England, near coast. 🎉⛄️❄️🍻🎊
I may be wrong -- but I've long had the understanding that a young Meryl Streep was also in attendance, of course as a fan -- not a young actress or anything.
I believe you are correct!! Thanks for the info! 🎼🎶🍻⛄️❄️🎵🎉🎊❤️
You mean, there was a sound track on that 8mm film, how's that possible? 16mm perhaps?
@@Zholobov1 perhaps I’m remembering the mm size wrong? I thought it was 8mm, with sound. Who knows. The story is what matters, not an old man’s bad memory. Cheers 🎵🎶🍻⛄️❄️
@matthewstreet1961 your story is precious, I'm just wondering if there is 8mm film with a sound track there in existance... I think, not. So 16mm could be more possible. Anyway, happy New Year! 🎄🧨🎇⛄🌨️❄️
Same to you, have a great 2025! You’ve got me thinking about calling my old roommate up and confirming what kind of film it was 🎥 🎞️, maybe he’ll remember! Ha ha! 😆 🎶🎼⛄️❄️🍻🎊🎉❤️🎵
What a great story Matt -Just out of interest - Where were you based in the UK ?
Hi Dave! Thanks! I was at joint bases, RAF Bentwaters/RAF Woodbridge, East Anglia, near town of Ipswich. Cheers friend! 🇬🇧🎼🎶🍻⛄️❄️🎊🎉
Barbara Bach's real last name was Goldbach that she shortened from her Jewish father's last name.
Ah thanks my friend! I wasn’t sure. 👍🎊🍻🎶🎼🎵🎉⛄️
The Beatles ended this great rock and roll concert the way a great rock and roll band would with Paul's hard screaming rock song I'm Down which they played even harder rocking then on the record.
Yes they rocked I’m Down like there was no tomorrow!! 🎊🍻🎶🎼🎵⛄️👍🎉
I have two friends who attended the concert, neither heard a f**king thing.
Ha! I love it Krome! So maybe seeing and “hearing” it in my little dorm room was better! Ha! Cheers friend! 🎉⛄️🍻❄️🎵🎼🎶🎊
On youtube you can watch The Beatles play to silent audiences who only applauded and cheered at the end for their great live performances, even with the primitive limited sound systems they had at the time, feedback monitors hadn't even been invented yet, When they played in Sweden in 1963,Paris in 1964,Italy in 1965 and in Japan in 1966.
And audiences both female and male of ages also were silent during their performances and only applauded at the end, of their 1964,1965 and 1966 New Music Express Poll Winners concerts.
And at their last concert on August 29th at Candlestick park recorded on just a little early mid 1960's tape cassette recorder ludicrously at Paul's suggestion which is on several youtube channels, they played great and rocking too.
I also met two people and know a third one who saw The Beatles in concert, one woman and one man who were my high school teachers one who saw them in 1966,and one who saw them in 1965 and the other is my second cousin who saw them at the Baltimore Coliseum when she was 16 in 1964, a year before I was even born and she became a psychologist. They all told me that they were close enough to them to see and hear the The Beatles and that they were great.
I'm sure that when teenage girls listened to The Beatles records and songs on the radio most of them weren't screaming,they knew what their music sounded like and they loved it.
Beautiful GC! Loved your post. I really enjoyed your insights about the Beatles playing live and your take on the different eras of their live career. Awesome information and memories. Thank you, my friend! 🎊🎼🎵👍⛄️🎶🍻🎉