Beatles Schedule for Second North American Tour Here, Late-Summer
LONDON — Brian Epstein has estimated that the Beatles will earn almost $1 million on their second American tour in August. So far there are only 13 concerts on the schedule but another two may be added (see note below).
Epstein was told by New York promoter Sidney Bernstein that even before posters or tickets were printed, more than half of the 56,000 seats at Shea stadium, where the group opens on Aug. 15, have been sold. Bernstein wants them to perform the following night and the date is being held open.
Similarly, their concert at an open-air stadium in Chicago (August 20; two shows) has already been sold out, and unless Epstein agrees to a second show the promoter will have to return a great deal of money sent. After New York the Beatles return to the Mapleleaf Gardens in Toronto for two performances (August 17); a debut in Atlanta, one performance (August 18); Houston, Tex., two (August 19); Minneapolis, one (August 21); Portland, Ore., two (August 22).
Epstein said that he resisted presenting the Beatles at the 100,000-seat Rose Bowl in Hollywood in favor of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl (August 29 and 30). The tour concludes at the San Francisco Cow Palace (August 31).
As previously reported, the Beatles tape an Ed Sullivan show the day after their arrival in U. S. which will open Sullivan’s fall series Sept. 19. The group will have six free days in Los Angeles beginning Aug. 23.
The Beatles’ European tour, which commences with a French televised concert at the Palais de Sport in Paris June 19, will be followed three days later by a performance in Lyons.
The Beatles make their Italian debut in Milan (June 24), continuing to Genoa (June 25) and Rome (June 27), before returning to France for a show in Nice (June 30).
They perform at two large Spanish bullrings, the Monumental in Madrid (July 2) and another in Barcelona (July 3), before returning to London July 4. END
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NOTE: San Diego was ultimately billed into the Beatles 1965 North American Tour (sometime after this Billboard article went to print) prior the group’s arrival in New York City for their first concert stop at Shea Stadium, August 15. Also, as to another possible add, the article made reference about the question whether the Beatles would commit possibly to a second performance to their NYC concert venue at Shea. Beatles’ history would concede they did not. — MCRFB
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Information and credit source: Billboard; May 5, 1965
