The Beatles August 1965

Title: The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Type: TV Special
Filming Location: William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, New York, USA
Filming Date: August 15th 1965
Broadcast Date: March 1st 1966 (UK); January 10th, 1967 (US)
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 50:02 Minutes
Quality: B+
Source: "The Beatles Shea 1965" (HMC)
Other Sources: "The Cathode Ray Tube Collection Vol 7" (HOBS)
Notes: One of their biggest ever concerts began their 1965 US tour in New York.
The concert, at Shea Stadium, was filmed (by 12 cameras) for a proposed TV special.
As soon as the filmed footage was edited it became apparent that the recorded sound was well below par and not suitable for broadcast.
Therefore on January 5, 1966 The Beatles went to CTS Studios in London and overdubbed and in some cases completely re-recorded most of the songs
but due to time restraints they had to substitute "Act Naturally" with the studio version and "Twist and Shout" with the live 1965 Hollywood Bowl recording.
The editing of the film footage was also a bit of a mess with footage from wrong songs inserted throughout plus they decided to begin the entire special with "I`m Down" which actually ended the concert… strange.
So despite the beautiful quality of the colour film the final special was a bit of a mess.
The special was eventually aired in England, in black and white, in March 1966
(also repeated in August 1966) and eventually aired in America in January 1967 (almost 18 months after it was filmed!).
Apple now own the complete unedited film of the concert and some footage and audio were remastered and released in stunning quality on "The Beatles Anthology" specials in 1995.
In September 2016, Apple remastered the concert footage from the Shea TV Special into 5.1 and released it in selected theatres
as a bonus to the new Ron Howard documentary "Eight Days a Week" and that`s where it has remained despite rumours that Apple would be releasing it on Blu Ray.
Hopefully it gets released one day. The bootlegged versions of this concert special have been numerous and
confusing with almost every release claiming to be the best quality in picture and sound. Few have lived up to their proclamations.