Paul McCartney (left) and John Lennon perform at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 28, 1966. The image appeared in a weekly newspaper published by Los Angeles radio station KRLA, which presented the show. Bob Eubanks, who lives in Westlake Village now, worked for KRLA and booked the concert.
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KRLA disc jockey Bob Eubanks (left) confers with Beatles publicist Tony Barrow at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28, 1966. This image appeared in the station's weekly newspaper.
BEATLES NIGHTS
The Los Angeles Dodgers have several events planned to celebrate the 45th anniversary of The Beatles' show at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28, 1966.
At tonight's 7:10 game against the Colorado Rockies, Westlake Village resident Bob Eubanks, who promoted the concert, will throw out the first pitch. There also will be a fireworks display set to Beatles music.
On Tuesday, before the 7:10 p.m. start of a game against the San Diego Padres, cast members from "Love," Cirque du Soleil's Beatles tribute show in Las Vegas, will perform "Drive My Car" and then throw out the first pitch.
If John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr weren't screaming those words aloud, they no doubt were thinking them as they sat trapped inside a Lincoln Continental that was smothered fender-to-fender by a frenzied blanket of screaming, crying, pawing, clawing fans who desperately wanted to touch their idols.
It was Sunday night, Aug. 28, 1966, and The Beatles were trying to make a break for it after playing a 27-minute show for 45,000 people at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. It was the first concert booked at the 4-year-old ballpark and, though no one knew it at the time, the second-to-last show The Beatles would ever perform. After another stadium gig the following night at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, their concert career was over.
The Dodgers will commemorate the 45-year anniversary of the group's penultimate gig tonight. There will be with fireworks and Westlake Village's Bob Eubanks will throw out the first pitch.
Eubanks, who cut his teeth in radio at Oxnard's KACY from 1958 to 1960 before jumping ship to powerhouse station KRLA in Los Angeles, is responsible for bringing The Beatles to Dodger Stadium.
The future "Newlywed Game" host and Rose Parade emcee booked the date with his business partner Mickey Brown. It was the third time they had brought The Beatles to SoCal, following sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964 and 1965.
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