•Might Mitch Mitchell, Promoter from Seattle: "The most-the MOST-we can make from the gig is $16,000 If it's a sellout. We have 22,000 tickets sold and we can seat about 30,000. So we can gross $180,000, but let's be more realistic and say $130,000. Those mothers [The Beatles] take $84,000. The city gets $19,500. Expenses run $20,000...and to top it off the city demands and gets 50 free tickets...Geez, I wish I'd never heard of the guys [Beatles] (Lipack, p. 327).

•The Beatles earned $90,000 in 35 minutes for their August 65 Minneapolis show.

•The Beatles earned $85,000 from The Sam Houston Coliseum Show in Houston Aug 19' 65 (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 200).

•Variety reported: "It will be difficult to find promoters who will be willing to pay them $125,000 per night against 65% of the take, as Sid Bernstein is guaranteeing them at Shea Stadium".

•The Beatle made an estimated $40,000 from their Forest Hills, N.Y. concert, $47,600 from Cow Palace, $160,000 Shea Stadium second tour ($25,000 to Lloyd's of London).

•The Beatles made £360,000 from their first American tour.

•Shea Stadium. August 15, 1965. Box-office was $304,000. Beatles share was $160,000 (£57,000) (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 199).

•At the second Shea Stadium concert 11,000 tickets had to be given away. The gross for the concert was $292,000 (£104,600) with the Beatles getting $189,000 (£67,700). This tops the money received from the
previous Shea concert by $22,000 because of a 10% increase in the contract terms (Lipack p. 92).

•The 1964 U.S. Tour had cash advances larger than any in entertainment history.

•An Anglo-American tax treaty stated that the Beatles earnings were liable to British tax. The U.S. authorities obtained a N.Y. court order freezing $1,000,000,000 in proceeds until clarification could be sought.

•Concerts of the Australian Tour grossed £200,000 (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 138).

•The Beatles earned $155,000 from White Sox Park in Chicago Aug 20 '65. Tickets for Upper Deck were $4.18 + .32 tax. (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 201).

•The Beatles earned $90,000 from The Hollywood Bowl Aug 29/30 '65. Gross was $156,000 (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 201).

•LIFE magazine. Vol. 57 no. 9 August 28, 1964. A Disaster? Well, not exactly
THERE STOOD THE BEATLES AS THE BATTLE SMOKE LIFTED But their manager, Brian Epstein (see page 62), booked them back on a 33-day tour of 23 American cities. Though every single concert is already a sell-out and the predicted tour gross is an astounding $2 million, the joy is not universal. Local promoters are under contract to hire a special force of at least 100 cops to guard the Loved Ones in every city, and police officials worry that 100 might not be enough.

•Sid Bernstein: "The biggest gross in the history of show business was achieved by the Beatles-$304,000. If I wanted to charge higher prices, we could have done a million dollar gate...I charged $4.00, $4.50, and $5.00".

•Over 200,000 ticket applications had been received by the local Japanese promoter [in 1966], so afternoon shows were scheduled each day (Lipack, p. 22).

•...having earned £360,000 from their first North American tour...(Lipack, p. 49).

•17, 130 seats in San Francisco sold out for $91,670 (£32,740). The Beatles grossed $47,600 (£17,000) (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 169).

•September 3 '64. Indiana State Fair. Two shows for 29,337 persons. Net: $85,232 (£30,440) (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 170).

•How did the Beatles take to America? "Can't say", admitted Ringo. "Didn't see much. Luv-ed the money
though". He was referring to the $2,112,000 that the Beatles took home with them (Associated Press).

Charity:

•At the Paramount $25,000 was raised for Retarded Infants Service and Cerebral Palsy of N.Y.

•Candlestick Park: The promoter told the San Francisco Chronicle that he could make $16,000 if the concert is sold out. The gross would be $180,000 but he said $130,000 would be realistic. The Beatles would take $84,000, the city 19,500, and $20,000 in expenses. The city demanded and got 50 free tickets (Lipack).

•After a US concert Sid Bernstein offered The Beatles $25,000 and a $5,000 donation to the British Cancer Fund for a Madison Square Garden concert. The offer was turned down (Norman).

•Paramount Theater. New York. September 20 '64. Charity concert for 3682. Some tickets sold for $100.
The Beatles and other artists on the bill played for free (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 172).

General:

•ECM's Charles Lloyd Gets Hack To Nature With Revisited 'Forest'. Author/s: Steve Graybow Issue: March 13, 1999. When the Beatles came to the U.S. in 1964, union labor laws required that an American group travel to Europe in exchange for the British musicians' entry onto American soil. That American group, a sextet led by Cannonball Adderley, included saxophonist Charles Lloyd.

•Reporter: Who decides how much money the Beatles will be paid per performance?
Derek Taylor: Brian Epstein.
Reporter: What's the most the Beatles have been paid?
Derek Taylor: Well, I think it must have been the Kansas City concert. 50,000 pounds or $150,000.

•Charles O. Finely offered $100,00 for the Beatles to play San Francisco. Mr. Finley also offered, in increments up to $150,000 to play other cities. The S.F. offer was worth £1,785 per minute.

•Food concession operators did not have sales that were to be expected at such an event asa large concert. The fans would not go to get something to eat for fear of missing their favorite song, being abandoned, left behind, or getting lost in the crush (Kane, L. Ticket to Ride, p. 48).

•Epstein would soon try to hire special squads of private security guards in every city where they might be available. This in reference to security problems in the Beatles' first U.S. tour (Kane, L. Ticket to Ride, p. 48).

•John: Once we went to Italy and never got paid (McCabe/Schonfeld, p. 98. For the Record).

•Charles O. Finely offered $50,00 for the Beatles to play Kansas City. Brian refused so Mr. Finely tore up the check and offered $100,000. He then tossed that in the ashtray and offered $150,000. Brian then took the check to the Beatles and asked what they wanted to do about it. John replied: "We'll do whatever you want". Brian went back and accepted and the Beatles earned $4838 per minute (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 139).

•The Beatles were scheduled to appear at the Gator Bowl in Florida where they were told that the audience would be segregated. John said, "We never play to segregated audiences and we aren't going to start now. I'd sooner lose out appearance money (Harry, B. Lennon Encyclopedia, p. 269).

•Referring to the Australian Tour '64: It has since been chronicled that this leg of the Tour was little more than a heavily-subsidized debauch-which why it was opportune that George and Ringo's respective parents decided not to come along for the ride (Clayson, p. 89).

•It has been reported that security guards at Beatle Concerts could be bribed to let people in backstage who weren't supposed to be there.

•For $10,000 the Beatles would play three shows for the Ed Sullivan Show, two of them live. $3500 for the two live shows and $3000 for the taped performance on Feb 23. A top act would usually earn $7500 for one appearance on the show (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 94).

•Strangely, in South Africa only a week prior, it was reported that the Beatles had just turned down a concert there by refusing a show date to play in Johannesburg (Lipack p. 15).

•In August of '66 the South African government banned the Beatles from playing there after hearing of John's 'bigger than Jesus' remarks. The ban lasted five years, until the Beatles' break-up. Then all, except John were allowed to perform in the country.

•11,000 tickets would remain unsold for the '66 Shea Stadium show out of a possible 56,000. They would be given away the day of the concert.

•January 12 '64. London Palladium. The Beatles earn £1000. On October 13 of the previous year they had earned £250 for the same show (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 142).

•Brian wanted to cancel the '66 American tour because he was worried about the consequences to the boys emotionally and physically. Nat Weiss told him it would cost a million dollars to cancel, and that he'd have to refund the prices of the tickets to the promoters. Brian offered to pay for these costs out of his own funds. Weiss convinces Brian not to cancel the tour but to have John apologize for his remarks. John was to tell Brian, then, that he'd rather cancel the tour than apologize (Lipack, p. 36).

•Of the 14,500 tickets printed for the Toronto Gardens show, close to 7,500 had been set aside for ticket agencies and radio stations. The Garden management also held back several hundred of the choicest seats to meet the high demand from the staff and VIP's. About 6,500 tickets were left for sale at the arena itself. Each buyer could buy two tickets apiece costing from $4 to $5.50 each (Kendall, p. 31).

•Tickets for a second show in Toronto were put on sale even though the Beatles had yet to agree to it. After negotiations between Brian and the promoters it was agreed that the Beatles would get seventy-percent of the gate for the second (matinee) show. That figure was ten-percent more than the evening show. Terms were for the Beatles to make $20,000-$40,000 per show or sixty-percent whichever was greater (Kendall, p. 33).

•While the Beatles were playing in 115-degree heat in Cincinnati thieves stole cash and personal items from their dressing room (Kendall, p. 60).

•The Beatles agreed to play in Jacksonville, AL in September '64 only after promoters agreed to admit non whites to the show (Fulpen, 1982).

•In September 64 over 100,000 tickets had been purchased to the Beatles Christmas Show from December 24-January 16 at the Hammersmith Odeon (Schultheiss, p. 114).

•The Evening News reported that the Beatles were insured for $1,000,000 for their US Tour. The Evening Standard reported the figure at £2,000,000.

•June 9/10 '64. Princess Theater. Kowloon, Hong Kong. Neither performance sold out. This was due mostly to the high cost of the tickets: HK $75 (£4 10s=£4.50). This was equivalent to the average person's weekly wage in Hong Kong (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 162).

•For the June 12/13 shows in Australia 50,000 applications were filed for 12,000 tickets. In exchange for "a handsome fee', Brian permitted one of the shows to be recorded for use on the radio. The radio show was broadcast June 15, called the Beatles Show, sponsored by Surf detergent (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 163).

•Question: Do you wish they'd be quiet and let you sing sometimes?
Paul: They paid to come in and if they want to scream, well, they paid.
John: Why? They've got the records. (Seattle, '64).

•A situation was discovered midway through the tour in which a mother had instructed her underage daughter to sneak into the hotel room of one of the Beatles, get in bed with them and then claim rape so the band would be forced to pay a huge amount of money to keep this fabricated incident out of the press and courts (Shapiro, p. 69).

Manila:

•At the ramp of the plane out of Manila it was learned that the Marcos military were there to enforce a tax levy (74,450 pesos=£6,840) against the $100,000 in gate receipts from the Manila shows. Brian realized it would be a wise gesture to give the Philippine tax office a share of the money. He turned over £6,800 worth of peso notes and signed the tax bond verifying the exchange.

•There was a 50-50 split between the Beatles and the Philippine promoter. The "official" funds were wired to Lloyd's Bank PLC in London. That amount is what the British Inland Revenue Service was given as a figure for income (Lipack, p. 29).

•The Beatles' open air concerts in the Philippines represented the bands biggest single day gate ever; an
estimated attendance of 100,000 for the 4:00pm and 8:30pm shows combined.

•Manila: Mr. Evans and Mr. Epstein were ordered to leave plane. Military/Tax officials were there to collect tax levy on $100,000 on gate receipts. Brian got out £6,800 and signed tax note that verified the exchange. Brian's "brown bag" money was mostly turned over. The rest of the money (legitimate) was wired to Lloyd's Bank (Lipack).