Is fame a Faustian bargain?
On 29 August 1966, 58 years ago today, The Beatles took to the stage at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park for the closing show of their US tour. The band was tired, fraught: the previous night the group had been mobbed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, with around 7,000 fans preventing the band from leaving the venue by throwing themselves in front of their cars; some broke off hood ornaments and wing mirrors to keep as