When Beatlemania swept across America in 1964 and again in 1965, the world\u2019s biggest band played almost everywhere. New York. Chicago. Los Angeles. Seattle. Toronto. Even Memphis, amid protests and controversy.<\/p>\n
But never Phoenix.<\/p>\n
For reasons history has never fully answered, the Beatles never performed a single concert in Arizona during the band\u2019s existence. As fans this month duly note the 60th anniversary of their final tour, the mystery isn\u2019t simply why they missed Phoenix \u2014 it\u2019s why Phoenix may have finally become ready for them at precisely the moment they were ready to stop touring forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Beatlemania swept across America in 1964 and again in 1965, the world\u2019s biggest band played almost everywhere.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1005151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,59452,46910,7657,53324,1589,977,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,402361],"class_list":["post-1005903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-beatles","tag-george-harrison","tag-john-lennon","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-phoenix","tag-ringo-starr","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-veterans-memorial-coliseum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117109225169195820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}