Though it was 50 years ago this week, Brian Henderson vividly remembers the night the Beatles played Vancouver’s Empire Stadium.
It was Aug. 22, 1964, and 17-year-old Henderson was selling programs, working, as he often did, at the Pacific National Exhibition. That evening at the stadium was different from the usual fare of soccer and BC Lions games. More than 20,000 people filled the stands, predominantly girls between the ages of nine and 13, with a few boys and men sprinkled throughout. The atmosphere was electric.