Where was the venue of The Beatles rooftop concert?
On January 30th, 1969, it had been almost two and a half years since The Beatles stepped onto a stage and performed live. The band, who’d made their name racking up almost 1,000 gigs in the early 1960s at the Cavern Club in Liverpool and other local venues, as well as on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, retreated to the studio in August 1966. They then created some of the most innovative recordings ever put out by a rock outfit.But the group was so jaded by six years in the limelight and a rock and roll lifestyle to boot that they’d even begun to resent making music together in what had once been their safe haven, the Studio 2 at Abbey Road’s EMI recording complex. Paul McCartney thought he’d found a remedy for the band’s ills: get The Beatles back to where they once belonged. Recording stripped-back live takes of rhythm and blues tracks in the studio and taking their new songs to the stage. The Beatles were going live again.
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