The Beatles Live At Candlestick Park
Antonio G. Pereira © 2026 Antonio G. Pereira
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The Beatles Live At Candlestick Park by Jim Marshall. Published by Chronicle Books. https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Jim-Marshall-Live-Candlestick/dp/1797243969 This is a wonderful book, and there is a feeling of closure in as far as the association of the Beatles as live performers is concerned. They had reached the point where technologically at this time period (1966), they had gone as far as they could go. (Places like Atlanta Stadium in 1965, which was brand new, with a brand new state-of-the-art sound system and stage monitors, was an ultra rare exception.) Amelia Davis and the staff at Jim Marshall Photography LLC, have put out another masterpiece. From the Introduction by Amelia Davis, to the written essay by Journalist Joel Selvin, the story of this concert unfolds before your very eyes, and it is something to see. Jim Marshall Himself, collaborated on a smaller, earlier version of these photographs in the book, 'The Beatles Last Concert', with Journalist Eric Lefcowitz in 1987/2006. I reviewed that book on this blog in 2013. https://observer1984.blogspot.com/2013/10/tomorrow-never-knows-beatles-last.html I also reviewed another wonderful book published by the Jim Marshall team: https://observer1984.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-haight-love-rock-revolution.html (Interestingly, there was a book of photographs of the Beatles, published by Shinko Music in Japan in 1973, that had several full colour photographs of the Beatles in concert. Some were taken in Shea Stadium in 1966, and some that could have been from Candlestick Park; which makes me wonder if Jim Marshall also shot a roll of colour film during their performance as well! Put it to the Japanese to find the rarest photographs there are!) Anyway, The Beatles Live At Candlestick Park by Jim Marshall, is a treasure trove of historical pictures. From their arrival at San Francisco Airport, to the Stadium itself, backstage with everyone from all of the Baez sisters (Joan, Mimi and Pauline), Music Journalist Extraordinaire and host of Jazz Casual Ralph J. Gleason, Promoter Tom Donahue, Beatles Press Officer Tony Barrow and of course, Jim Marshall himself. The timing for the release of this book, couldn't have been better. BRAVO!
