The Beatles Playing On The Roof

The beatles played on a london rooftop in 1969.

The beatles playing on the roof.

It wound up being their last show. Although few people could see them crowds gathered in the streets below to hear the beatles play. The timing coincided with the lunch hour of many nearby workplaces which led to crowds quickly forming. 30 1969 they made history atop the apple corps office building in london s garment district.

No one knew the concert staged for the documentary let it be would be the band s final performance. The beatles rooftop concert was the climax of a project originally titled get back it was conceived as exactly that a return to their rock roots in a desperate effort to restore unity when. Behind the group s final public performance in their final public performance the beatles made history playing on top of the apple studios becoming the most. Ken mansfield on his front row seat to the fabs last public performance.

The group did record one more album abbey road on which work started the following month but by september 1969 the beatles had unofficially disbanded. The beatles january 30 1969 rooftop gig is unforgettable. It was a frigid day on the apple corps rooftop in late january 1969 but the beatles showed up anyway to play to a. They had stopped touring in 1966 but on jan.

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The beatles rooftop concert marked the end of an era for many fans.