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The Beatles Cleveland Concert Poster Proof

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The Beatles Cleveland Concert Poster Proof
1966. The Beatles’ concert at Cleveland Stadium on August 14, 1966, was the third stop on a 14 city tour of North America, a tour that would prove to be the group’s last. The concert, emceed by WIXY’s “Big Jack” Armstrong, was attended by 20,000 rabid fans; so excitable, in fact, that the show was stopped midway as 2,500 fans rushed the field. The Beatles were hustled off to a backstage trailer for twenty minutes while order was being restored. Incidentally, a similar incident occurred during the group’s previous visit two years earlier on September 15, 1964, at the Public Auditorium. This is one of three known poster proofs that, until 2004, had been in the possession of the son of the Jontzen Brothers Printing Company pressman since 1966. He explained that proofs were printed on paper since they were only used to check for errors before the cardboard posters were printed and distributed. (Note the misspelling on the word “other.”) To date, only three cardboard posters for the Cleveland concert are known to have survived; one of which is in the collection of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. This 17 x 22” day-glo poster proof has a clipped top border, exhibits minor wrinkling, and the pressman’s original fingerprint ink smudge above “O” in the word “Concert.”