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On the chilly, wind-whipped evening of August 29, 1966, The Beatles walked onto a temporary stage erected over a baseball field at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park to face a roaring crowd. None of the 25,000 fans screaming into the wind realized they were watching the end of an era. Physically exhausted, creatively constrained, and fearing for their personal safety, the band had reached an unspoken pact. Candlestick would not merely mark the conclusion of their grueling North American tour—it was the final concert The Beatles would ever perform.

Legendary music photographer Jim Marshall captured the event from the inside. Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of that historic evening, The Beatles by Jim Marshall: Live at Candlestick Park 1966 gathers over 150 remarkable images and proof sheets, half of which have never been published before. Specially requested by the band, Marshall was the only photographer granted access to their backstage inner sanctum. His camera documented not just the electric thirty-minute set on the outfield grass, but the intimate, unvarnished hours preceding it—quiet teacups in the San Francisco Giants’ locker room, casual conversations with folk royalty Joan Baez, and the nervous anticipation before marching into the floodlights. Accompanied by historical commentary from music writer Joel Selvin, the book strips away the myth to present a human, indelible chronicle of the day the greatest pop phenomenon in history quietly stepped off the stage forever.