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The Beatles at the Met: 50 years ago today

Beatles Concert. Metropolitan Stadium. August 1965
News conference with the Beatles ahead of their concert at Burnsville's Metropolitan Stadium, Aug. 21, 1965.
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society

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Fifty years ago, the Beatles performed live at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.

It was the band's first and only visit to Minnesota — and the only stop on their tour that year that didn't sell out.

During a press conference before the show, an employee of a Minneapolis guitar shop presented George Harrison with a 12-string electric Rickenbacher guitar.

Beatles lore says Harrison played that guitar in the studio a year later when the Beatles recorded playing the Carl Perkins song "Everybody's Trying to be My Baby."