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During a career that was chock-full of momentous events, The Beatles enjoyed plenty of turning points that contributed to their unparalleled achievements. And few loom larger than the release of \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d (1964), their feature film debut, and their August 29, 1966, performance at San Francisco\u2019s Candlestick Park. Both are subjects of terrific new books about the band.<\/p>\n

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Samira Ahmed\u2019s superb book about the making and legacy of \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d should send music (and film) lovers to their favorite streamer to revisit the movie. Under Richard Lester\u2019s direction, \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d not only showcased the group\u2019s media-friendly personalities, but ensured that Beatlemania was portable, that you didn\u2019t have to live in a big city for the Fab Four to come to your town.<\/p>\n

As Ahmed demonstrates, the film\u2019s documentary style both reimagined the jukebox musical and captured the frenzy of mid-1960s filmmaking. In its finest moments, Ahmed\u2019s book takes readers back to The Beatles\u2019 heyday, when rock \u2018n\u2019 roll was still relatively new, and the band was only just getting started in terms of the musical artistry to come. At the same time, she deftly addresses the era\u2019s shifting sexual politics and role of women in The Beatles\u2019 story.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to Candlestick Park, the O.K. Corral when it comes to the band\u2019s touring days. On that fateful August night, The Beatles brought their miserable final tour to an end, a North American trek that John Lennon dubbed the \u201cJesus Christ Tour\u201d for its association with the fallout over his \u201cBeatles are bigger than Jesus\u201d remark that had been republished in Datebook.<\/p>\n

There were 10,000 empty seats that evening, with the band performing for some 25,000 fans who were entirely unaware that they were witnessing The Beatles\u2019 last hurrah before a paying audience. For the group, touring had become a godawful experience. That night, they were escorted onto the baseball diamond in an armored car with a security detail of some 200 police officers in tow. The stage itself was five feet tall, with a six-foot-high wire fence around the perimeter as an extra precautionary measure. After a 33-minute set that concluded with \u201cLong Tall Sally,\u201d the boys made their exit. After some 1,400 concerts, their lives as working rock \u2018n\u2019 rollers were suddenly over.<\/p>\n

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The late photographer Jim Marshall was on hand that evening, capturing the spirit, such as it was, of a band on the precipice of something even greater than anyone could have imagined. Turning their backs on the road paved the way for a series of masterworks in \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d (1967), \u201cThe White Album\u201d (1968), and \u201cAbbey Road\u201d (1969), their magnificent swan song.<\/p>\n

Compiled by Amelia Davis, Marshall\u2019s book, entitled \u201cThe Beatles by Jim Marshall: Live at Candlestick Park 1966,\u201d assembles more than 150 photographs, the best of which find The Beatles hanging out in the Giants\u2019 locker room, where they pondered an unknown future. Indeed, the idea of a rock band no longer performing live simply made no sense in that era. The uncertainty wasn\u2019t lost on George Harrison. As they jetted away from San Francisco International Airport later that night, he said, \u201cI guess I\u2019m not a Beatle anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with Ahmed\u2019s book, Marshall transports readers to another time, when the future was brimming with promise and possibility. And The Beatles, as history well knows, were only just getting started.<\/p>\n

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