On the evening of August 29, 1966, The Beatles, having just completed a show at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, were hustled into a truck to leave the venue. Paul McCartney, who had been the lone holdout on an opinion shared by the other three members of the band, spoke up and finally agreed: This would be the last live show for them in the foreseeable future. As it turned out, it would be their last live show ever, not counting their abbreviated rooftop performance in 1969. What brought them to that point? And what were the ramifications of that choice? Let's go back in time to one of the most momentous decisions in the history of music.