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Beatles Cleveland Concert Poster Proof

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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 show was stopped midway as 2,500 fans rushed 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. The Jontzen Brothers Printing Company pressman of the time, 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. This is a littles Proof Brother only one knowing existing. This 17x 22 ¨day-glo poster proof has a clipped top border and exibits minor wrinkling, and has the pressman's original fingerprint above O in the word CONCERT.

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