The Beatles' 1966 US tour Beatles on stage, all looked immediately at John Lennon. We would not at that moment have been surprised to see that guy go down. John had half-heartedly joked about the Memphis concert in an earlier press conference, and when we got there everything seemed to be controlled and calm, but underneath somehow, there was this nasty atmosphere. It was a very tense and pressured kind of day." The Beatles' final paid concert of their career took place on 29 August at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. The band played to an audience of 25,000, leaving 7000 tickets unsold. A
The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines for the tour. Given the complexity of their new recordings, the band did not include any of the songs from "Revolver" in their 1966 set list. Author and critic Richie Unterberger writes that this omission has been interpreted as laziness by some commentators, yet it was in keeping with the Beatles' policy not to perform any unreleased material. Their current single, "Paperback Writer", was included, but as with the few selections from "Rubber Soul" they performed live – "Nowhere Man" and "If I Needed Someone" – the Beatles were unable to capture the intricacies of the multi-track recording in concert.