The Beatles at the Met: 50 years ago today
News conference with the Beatles ahead of their concert at Burnsville's Metropolitan Stadium, Aug. 21, 1965.
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society
Fifty years ago, the Beatles performed live at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.
It was the band's first and only visit to Minnesota — and the only stop on their tour that year that didn't sell out.
During a press conference before the show, an employee of a Minneapolis guitar shop presented George Harrison with a 12-string electric Rickenbacher guitar.
Beatles lore says Harrison played that guitar in the studio a year later when the Beatles recorded playing the Carl Perkins song "Everybody's Trying to be My Baby."
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