The Beatles final concert: Ringo Starr was 'pretty bored' of touring before last gig

In 1966 The Beatles were at the height of their fame. The band had released more than 15 number-one selling albums and were world-famous. Throughout the 1960s the Fab Four had been touring consistently for most of the decade. After finishing a string of gigs in Asia earlier that year, the band set out on a North American tour through the summer of ’66. The Asian leg of the tour was particularly heated for the band, following a comment John Lennon made about the band being “bigger than Jesus”. George Harrison quipped on The Beatles Anthology: “We’re going to have a couple of weeks to recuperate before we go and get beaten up by the Americans.”

The American tour went on as planned, but by August the band were getting sick of being on a tourbus for most of the hours of the day.

Also speaking in The Anthology, Starr said: “In 1966 the road was getting pretty boring.

Source: Callum Crumlish/express.co.uk

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