{"id":2882,"date":"2014-12-16T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?page_id=2882"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:20:25","slug":"sid-bernstein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/sidbernstein","title":{"rendered":"Sid Bernstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Sid Bernstein<\/strong><\/span> was a legendary concert promoter who was instrumental in bringing The Beatles from Britain to America in 1964.\u00a0 He was best known for booking The Beatles&#8217; concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 &#8211; the first major stadium concert that turned out to be a watershed moment in the history of Rock &amp; Roll.\u00a0 In addition to The Beatles, Bernstein worked with Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Sly &amp; the Family Stone, and others.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Sid Bernstein<\/strong><\/span> was the first guest at the very first Fest in 1974.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBorn in New York, NY on August 12th, 1918, <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Sid Bernstein<\/span><\/strong> passed away in 2013.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>FESTS ATTENDED:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n1974: New York City<br \/>\n1975: New York City<br \/>\n1976: Philadelphia<br \/>\n1999: New York Metro<br \/>\n2000: New York Metro<br \/>\n2001: New York Metro<br \/>\n2002: New York Metro<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">FEST VIDEOS FROM FANS:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Fest&#8217;s Sid Bernstein Tribute from New York City, 2014 &#8211;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQcTyTDK_Ro\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">CLASSIC SID BERNSTEIN VIDEOS:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt wouldn&#8217;t have happened without Sid. Here are The Beatles performing &#8220;I&#8217;m Down&#8221; at Shea Stadium in 1965 &#8211;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IsjXUcPgo5A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Bernstein was a legendary concert promoter who was instrumental in bringing The Beatles from Britain to America in 1964.\u00a0 He was best known for booking The Beatles&#8217; concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 &#8211; the first major stadium concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"landing-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2882","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2882\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}