On this day (June 30) in 1966, the Beatles would play their first of five shows at Tokyo, Japan’s Nippon Budōkan, unknowingly amid a swirl of death threats. The beloved British boy band – made up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr – had touched down in the country the night […]
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