The Beatles played the same stadium 60 years ago The Killers paid tribute to The Beatles during their show at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium over the weekend – watch their cover of ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ below. Read More: Brandon Flowers tells us about the future of The Killers and confirms new solo album: “I’m starting to know what I’m doing” The Las Vegas band kicked off their two-night stay at the Queens venue on Saturday night (September 14) by honouring The Beatles, who did two nights there themselves 60 years earlier. Frontman Brandon Flowers told the audience, “Some of you might know the history of the place.
Obviously, there were some amazing tennis matches that took place here. When we think about that historic Beatles performance at Shea Stadium, that was in 1965. But in 1964, 60 years ago, the Beatles did two nights here at Forest Hills.
We thought that we would pay our respects. I don’t think there’s a person here that wasn’t influenced by them in some way or another. Here you go.
” The Killers then covered The Beatles’ 1963 track ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand‘, one they’d never covered live before. In the past, they’d covered other Beatles tracks, including ‘Helter Skelter’ – which they played with Paul McCartney himself in 2016 – ‘Get Back‘, ‘In My Life‘, ‘Michelle’, and ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ . Meanwhile, the band also covered Erasure ’s 1998 track ‘A Little Respect‘, and played many of their ow.