1965 Beatles Press Photo Meeting Princess Margaret London Pavilion Rock Vintage

During their 1964 tour of America, the Beatles stayed in Los Angeles for five days. The band rented a mansion at 356 St. Pierre Road in the Hidden Hills neighborhood of Bel Air. They held a sold-out concert on Saturday, August 23 for almost 19,000 paying fans seated inside the Hollywood Bowl, plus another 10-15,000 gate-crashers in the trees outside the amphitheater. Capitol Records planned to record the live concert but the continual shrieking by the audience prevented a good sound recording. After their performance, the band members partied until dawn at their gated house with about 30 starlets, including Peggy Lipton, Joan Baez, Billy Preston, and Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson (known as Paul and Paula).

Then on Sunday afternoon, Brian Epstein and the Beatles attended a charity garden party hosted by Alan Livingston, the president of Capitol Records, in the Brentwood backyard of Livingston’s mother-in-law. The party was a fundraiser for the Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California. Livingston’s wife, the actress Nancy Olson, was a foundation board member. Hollywood celebrities were charged $25 each to bring their children. This event, held on August 24, 1964, raised $10,000.