Bob Eubanks recalls the early days of the Beatles
Floor seats for Paul McCartney at the Dome list for over 700 dollars on Ticketmaster. But when Sir Paul first played the Hollywood Bowl with the Beatles, the group’s manager Brian Epstein kept things a bit more affordable.
“They would only let me charge three, four, five, six and seven dollars all three years they toured,” says the man who promoted the show. “Now, I could have gotten 20 dollars without a blink of an eye. But no, Brian said that he wanted people to save their money to buy albums.”
Bob Eubanks has been a familiar face on TV since the Sixties. He’s best known as host of daytime and nighttime versions of “The Newlywed Game” on ABC and the syndicated coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade for 36 years. But before that, he was a DJ in Los Angeles and a music promoter.
Source: localsyr.com/WSYR
