Carnegie Hall, 7th Ave and West 57th St, New York City, New York, USA
The Beatles returned this day to New York, again traveling by train, and gave two 34 minutes shows at the famed Carnegie Hall, at 7:45 and 11:15 pm, with a capacity audience of 2900 at each. Tickets went on sale at the theatre's box-office on January 27th and were sold by the next day. Such was the demand that seating was allocated on stage with the Beatles, on their left and right flanks and behind them. A plan by Capitol Records to record these two shows was thwarted by the American Federation of Musicians. With greater time to solve the union problems, however, Capitol succeeded in gaining AFM permission to tape the Hollywood Bowl shows on August 23rd, 1964 and August 29-30, 1965.
