Shake It Up Baby| The Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens – Wed. Aug. 17, 1966
It’s been 50 years since The Beatles rocked Maple Leaf Gardens and to celebrate, Classic Albums Live is recreating the last Beatles show, note for note, cut for cut. They will perform the original set list in its entirety plus tons of other hits. It’s Classic Albums Live: Beatles 1966 at Maple Leaf Gardens in concert with the City of Toronto and Massey Hall.
You may have been one of the lucky souls to witness the spectacle that was the Beatles and undoubtedly your memories of the concert are just as vivid today as John, Paul, George and Ringo were standing in front of you then. Let’s walk down memory lane, all the way back to Wed. Aug. 17, 1966:
Shake It Up Baby - by Christine Dirks
We were 14 and we had everything we needed that summer morning in 1966. There were letters of introduction from the Mayor of Sarnia and the Managing Editor of The Sarnia Observer, a four foot long key to the city which we’d cut from styrofoam, covered in white fabric and trimmed in purple ribbon, a card professing our undying love, and tickets. Red box seats for the afternoon concert. Gold fifth row floor seats for the evening. It was August 17. The Beatles were performing that afternoon and evening at Maple Leaf Gardens and Connie and I were on our way. My parents would drive.
We’d ordered tickets from the Gardens once the concerts were announced. The afternoon tickets arrived in the mail with a note that the evening concert was sold out. We knew there had to be some still available so we called Stan Obodiac, Director of Publicity at the Gardens but he was either out of the office or busy.
By: Chris Bundas
Source: Q107
