Shea Stadium concert anniversary
The official Beatles stores are celebrating the anniversary this way.
August 15 is the sixtieth anniversary of The Beatles’ concert at Shea Stadium, back in 1965. Cinema audiences were treated to a 30 minutes 4K restoration of the filmed concert with remade sound by Giles M. after the main feature, Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days A Week” back in 2016. But the film was not an added bonus when said feature made it to disc. At the time, it was speculated that promoter Sid Bernstein’s company was disputing the ownership, a lawsuit Apple Corps won in 2017. And yet, no release since. Could it be that the Ed Sullivan production company Sofa Entertainment has some stake in the film?
Still, the film has been available on pirate DVDs for decades, some taken from that final BBC screening of the film in 1979, some from the broadcast master of the USA screening on ABC from 1967. A fan has made a trailer for another take on the film, restoring the two missing songs from the original TV film, “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” and “She’s A Woman” with AI-made footage, where George and Paul seemingly mouth the lyrics to the songs. His version of The Beatles at Shea Stadium is due out 15 August – the anniversary date, most likely on YouTube or other free video channels. Here’s a trailer.
I would personally take a Shea60 video and audio component release over the supposed Anthology30 campaign. The Shea feature after Eight Days a Week was probably the only thing that interested me while in the theater in 2016. This concert has never had it’s own release (aside from being in the Anthology and 2016 theatrical screening) since Apple really took off running with unreleased content starting in 1994. This would be a welcomed non re-release.
Why not just release the version that was screened after Eight Days A Week (the only good part of the screening actually). It was really great!
By the way, the AI parts are off. When George or Paul sang ‘solo’ songs (with no vocal harmonies) they’d be right in front of their microphones not on the side.
You’re right, but AI lipsync doesn’t work if the microphone covers their mouth.
Yeah, but George didn’t stand in front of the mike in any of the available footage.
I guess so. But just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should do it. I think it’s so very wrong to do this.
I mean Beatles fans were horrified when they heard that AI was used for Now and Then (although it was only used to extract John’s voice), and now they go generative AI on them… That’s ridiculous.
And what about the environnement? AI use a lot of power and a lot of water. Just because some guy was bothered not having video for two Beatles songs from ONE of their gig? The guy should b ashamed to be so selfish.
I find it embarrassing when Apple bureaucrats—sitting in their offices—flood the market with excessive, useless merchandising. What about the real music? Please, stop focusing so much on merchandising. The Beatles were musicians… do you know that, Apple people?
I’d much prefer the documentary and Shea show released, hopefully no more god awful Disneys releases a’la ‘Beatles ’64’ which was the pits!
The Eight Days A Week Shea film was an abomination. Looked great, but when any fan’s ears can hear the 1963 STUDIO recording married to “Twist and Shout,” what exactly is the point? An “incredible simulation”?
No thanks!
Sorry, I’ll take the film please. This line of products are junk. Poorly designed. A “rush” job for sure.
It appears that people at Apple got wind of the Shea You Tube demo link in the blog and made it unavailable. They would rather have the Shea concert locked up, sitting on a shelf and collecting dust, no doubt. Or at least until much of the fan base has passed away.
Perhaps that’s a sign of something officially coming our way? Similar to how Apple copyrighted claimed all of the Now and Then outfakes a couple of years ago….fingers cross.
Sorry but this collection is junk. Not designed well and seems thrown together last minute. Give us the film!
The AI sample on the trailer was pretty bad.
While it would be nice to have a good version of this, the Darth Disc version will do. It’s still better than our B&W TV set from the 1960s, when I saw it the first time.
the full video is available on 101guitars
Looks like Del Boy and Rodney have taken over Apple. Instead of actual music and films, we now get tat like this ‘merch’. Shea is a big part of Beatles folklore, and it should be treated as such. Not by flogging this junk.
To all the skeptics out there – I was pretty skeptical before I watched this too, but if you’ve got 40 minutes to spare, I believe that you’ll be as pleasantly surprised as I was. This is a very well constructed video which uses all of the original audio from the concert. I was blown away. Besides, it costs less than one of those shirts.