The Beatles perform in New Orleans 50 years ago this hour (Sep 16 1964)


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(Wednesday, September 16, 1964, 9:25 p.m. CDT) — The Beatles performed tonight at City Park Stadium in New Orleans during the band’s 22nd stop of their first full North American tour.

During the performance of Can’t Buy Me Love more than 100 fans broke through a police cordon and ran across the field towards the stage. It took 225 police officers more than 20 minutes before order was restored, with mounted police patrolling the area of the breach.


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