Sour Milk Sea said
Is the controversy why there were only 2500 people at Candlestick? Doesn't seem like people in San Fran would get as worked up about it as the south.
Crowd numbers were falling in the US generally in August 1966 (not down solely to the Jesus controversy); Shea and a number of other venues failed to sell out which results in reports in the media saying the Beatles popularity was fading with the younger fans moving on to other bands. There is that clip in the Anthology with the reporter at Shea in '66 trying ...