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Rooftop Where Beatles Played Final Show Gets New Starring Role
May 11, 2026
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Express / Express/Express/Getty ImagesThe famous London rooftop where the Beatles played their last live show in 1969 is being turned into a museum that fans can finally visit. The Fab Four’s final public performance, on Jan. 30, 1969, took place atop 3 Savile Row, then home to their record label Apple Corps and the studio they used to lay down the album Let It Be.
The lunchtime gig was famously brought to an end by police. Paul McCartney, 83, paid a return visit to the property ahead of Apple Corps’ Monday announcement that it would transform the townhouse into a public attraction set to welcome visitors next year. “There are so many special memories within the walls, not to mention the rooftop,” he said in a news release, as The New York Times reported. The new attraction will feature “seven floors of never-before-seen material” and a recreated recording studio, with visitors able to walk on the rooftop itself. “Even the railings remain the same,” chief executive Tom Greene said in the release.Read it at New York TimesRead more at The Daily Beast.
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