Day off in Los Angeles

Immediately after their second concert at New York’s Shea Stadium, The Beatles flew to Los Angeles. They arrived in the early hours of this morning.

There were no concerts scheduled for this day; it was a rest day for the group to recuperate before continuing their final tour in Seattle.

They stayed at 7655 Curson Terrace in Beverly Hills, which Brian Epstein had rented for this brief stay. The Beatles were visited by their former press officer, Derek Taylor, as well as members of The Byrds and The Mamas And The Papas.

I’d left The Beatles in December 1964, and gone to live in Hollywood for three years. Things had got very ‘successful’, which means I took on too much: The Byrds, Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks, Mamas and Papas, Chad and Jeremy – the intelligent side of US pop – and so I’d dropped out because it was all too much.

In the evening Capitol Records’ president Alan Livingstone threw a party for The Beatles, which was attended by well-known show business personalities including Edward G Robinson, Jack Benny, James Stewart and Groucho Marx.