At first, Brian got the Beatles to wear sweaters on stage and eventually mohair suits. Having always loved the theater, Brian knew a thing or two about presentation. Epstein was from an upper middle-class background and he wanted us to appeal to the producers of radio, television and record companies.

Brian Epstein told the Beatles that if they wear suits they’ll get more money. John Lennon’s response was, ‘Yeah man, all right, I’ll wear a suit – I’ll wear a bloody balloon if somebody’s going to pay me. I’m not in love with leather that much’. George agreed saying, “We gladly switched into suits to get some more money and some more gigs.” And it worked, the Beatles were soon playing shorter sets for more money.

The Beatles walked onto the stage of the Manchester’s Playhouse Theater in early 1962 for their radio debut wearing their new gray mohair suits with thin lapels, button-down shirts and ties. The new Beatles clothing came from Beno Dorm, “The Master Tailor For Impeccable Hand-Made Clothes,” located in the a Liverpool suburb. This became the sharp early ’60s style for young men. From this point forward, The Beatles would be fashion leaders and not fashion followers.

Ringo says Brian Epstein changed the group’s image by making them look smarter. But adds, the Beatles made him change his image as soon as he joined the group. Ringo used to wear his hair slicked back like Tony Curtis and he had sideburns. The other three Beatles had him shave and comb his hair down.

There was talk that it was Paul who had betrayed the group’s leather image but, as Paul recalled, “I didn’t actually have to drag anyone to the tailors. We all went quite happily over the water to Beno Dorn, a little tailor who made mohair suits.” People were saying that their black leather look was too hard and they feared that booking agents would agree. So that was an end to the Hamburg era and a new look look in Beatles clothing.

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Beatles Clothing – Out of T Shirt & Leather… Into Suits

The negative limelight cast a dark shadow over the start of the tour. An anonymous telephone caller during the summer of 66 warned that members of the band would be shot at either of their two performances in Texas later that day. When fireworks later went off during the nighttime concert, The group immediately looked at the other three to see which of them had been hit.

But the next night the Beatles were equally on edge when they were about to step onto the open-air stage on Cincinnati’s Crosley Field during a thunder storm. While over thirty thousand audience members sat inside Corsley Field waiting to see the show, the Beatles were fearful of getting an electric shock if they were to touch their mics. McCartney vomited before the show. Luckily, just before the show was set to start the performance was called off and postponed for the next day.

The day after, was the Beatles Last Performance. The Beatles appeared at Candlestick Park on August 29th, 1966. The band was at 2nd second base far away from the audience of 25,000. The stage was raised up five feet above the field and inside a six foot high fence. The stage was guarded by 200 police officers. Songs played at the concert were ‘Rock And Roll Music’, ‘She’s A Woman’, ‘If I needed Someone’, ‘Day Tripper’, ‘Baby’s In Black’, ‘I Feel Fine’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘Nowhere Man’, ‘Paperback Writer’, and ‘Long Tall Sally’.

When the show was over, the four Beatles drove away from candlestick park in an armored car. All four Beatles knew that this was the end of their touring. John Lennon had taken a camera on stage with him and snapped pictures of himself and the other Beatles in between numbers. Paul McCartney had requested Press official Tony Barrow to tape record the Beatles last performance on a small hand held recorder.

As The group’s airplane departed California, George Harrison proclaimed, ‘Well, that is it, I’m not a Beatle any more.’

The only known film footage of the Beatles last performance was captured by a fifteen year old audience member and appears in a documentary called The Unseen Beatles.

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The Beatles Last Performance