4 Opening acts were Brenda Holloway, King Curtis, Cannibal & the Headhunters and Soul Incorporated. Three local bands — the Underbeats, the Accents and Gregory Dee & the Avanties — also performed in the concourse of the stadium.
11 The Beatles breezed through 11 songs in 30 minutes, though they performed 12 tunes in some other cities on the tour. (These days, McCartney is doing about three dozen songs over nearly three hours.)
16 The Fab Four’s 1965 North American tour, their second visit to the States, featured 16 concerts in 10 different cities.
20 Two full decades is how long Met Stadium stood after the Beatles show. The facility was demolished in 1985, three years after the Twins and Vikings headed to the Metrodome. The Mall of America opened on the Bloomington site in 1992.
21 That was the age of the woman in McCartney’s Leamington Hotel room when Minneapolis Police Inspector Donald Dwyer threatened the noisy Beatles entourage for having “lured” underage girls into their fifth-floor chamber in downtown Minneapolis. Telling the Minneapolis Star that “those people are the worst I have ever seen visit this city,” Dwyer threatened to take McCartney to jail unless a young woman left the room within two minutes. She emerged, showing identification that she was 21 and from Cleveland.
25 The preshow press conference at Met Stadium lasted 25 minutes, almost as long as the concert itself. Best exchange: “Is your hair real?” Harrison: “Our hair’s real, lady. What about yours?”