{"id":14572,"date":"2025-08-07T19:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:23:24","slug":"mets-to-celebrate-60th-anniversary-of-beatles-at-shea-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14572","title":{"rendered":"Mets to celebrate 60th anniversary of Beatles at Shea Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The Mets will honor the 60th anniversary of the Fab Four&#8217;s performance at Shea Stadium, where they will host the Mariners on Aug. 15 for The Beatles Night at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>The 1965 performance was a milestone because The Beatles became the first rock band to perform a major stadium concert. A 50-minute documentary titled &#8220;The Beatles at Shea Stadium&#8221; captured the show. At the time, the multipurpose stadium was home to the Mets and New York Jets.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will begin with a performance by 1964 the Tribute in front of Shea Bridge at 6:15 p.m. ET. The first 15,000 fans to enter Citi Field will receive an exclusive Shea Stadium replica.<\/p>\n<p>The first pitch will be thrown by members of the game-day staff who worked the famous concert. A themed fireworks show will be held after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The Mets will honor the 60th anniversary of the Fab Four&#8217;s performance at Shea Stadium, where they will host the Mariners on Aug. 15 for The Beatles Night at Citi Field. The 1965 performance was a milestone because The Beatles became the first rock band to perform a major stadium concert. A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[8193,3045,8194,1731,5014,8195,1599],"class_list":{"0":"post-14572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-60th","9":"tag-anniversary","10":"tag-beatles","11":"tag-celebrate","12":"tag-mets","13":"tag-shea","14":"tag-stadium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}