Media Path 103 The Beatles at Shea & The Birth of Stadium Rock featuring Laurie Jacobson

The paths of 56,000 exuberant music fans intersected in Queens, NY on August 15th, 1965, the night the Beatles played Shea Stadium and forever altered the arc of rock history. Present and accounted for were celebrities, writers, agents, producers, photographers, opening act performers, security guards, radio personalities, cameramen, and hordes of teaming, screaming fans. Among them: Whoopi Goldberg, Meryl Streep, Steven Van Zandt, future Beatle wives Linda Eastman and Barbara Bach; Bobby Vinton,  Ed Sullivan, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Felix Cavaliere, Marvin Gaye, and so many more. 

Their intersecting stories are woven together in Laurie Jacobson’s Top of the Mountain: The Beatles at Shea Stadium. Laurie joins us with dishy details.

Plus Weezy’s media path complimented her physical journey as she read A Frog in the Fjord by Lorelou Desjardins and Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss. And Fritz is recommending 1861 by Adam Goodheart and Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World on Netflix.

Path Points of Interest:

Laurie Jacobson

Top of the Mountain: The Beatles at Shea Stadium by Laurie Jacobson

Laurie Jacobson's Author Page on Amazon

The Beatles at Shea on Vimeo

A Frog in The Fjord by Lorelou Desjardins 

Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss 

1861 by Adam Goodheart

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World