Welcome to Nothing Israel a podcast about the Beatles. Everyone thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know?

My name is Jason Carty.

My name is Stephen Corkro.

And we are live on tape from Dublin.

This is our third and final look at the magical date of August the 23rd and what it means in the mystical world of the Beatles.

We've already proven many things, haven't we?

It's first week in Hamburg, it's middle of the cavern, it's John's wedding anniversary with Cynthia. It's the She Loves You Day. It's the Hollywood Bowl Day. It's

many things to many people. And it's Drugs Day. And 1966, it's a Tuesday.

In 1966, it's a Tuesday. Again. Well, that's how time works and they are playing Shea Stadium for the second time.

Amusingly in anthology, some of them only remember playing it one time.

Yes.

I was going to say, this is the Shay Stadium show that no one talks about.

Yes, because it is different to the first Shea Stadium's show.

So that's a hard thing to say, Shea Stadium's Show.

That's my actor's routine for the morning time.

The first appearance had been on the 15th of August, 1965.

A huge success, famously recorded for a television special. It was a world record

appearance at the time. World record attendance figures, world record gross revenue. So they

actually, the box office was $304,000 of which the Beatles pocketed $160,000.

That's a lot of thousands of dollars.

That is a lot of thousands of dollars.

And this was famously promoted by Sid Bernstein, who comes back into the Beatles story in the 70s,

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