It’s August 17th, which means that exactly 49 years ago today, in 1966, the Beatles played a pair of shows at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
I was at the afternoon show, Beatle haircut and all.
The boss let me go early from my slave labour construction job I was doing for the summer, and I went down to Toronto from Orillia with a disc jockey that my sister worked with at the local radio station. She had gotten word to me just that morning that the DJ was going, and asked if I would like to go with him.