Shea stadium will be dismantled after this season, and the Mets will have a new stadium next year. Last night Billy Joel played the last concert scheduled there, and Paul McCartney joined him, as did several other artists. Paul had the last finale, performing, "Let it Be". As the Beatles were the first to play a stadium concert event (in 1965), Paul has bookended the musical history of Shea stadium.
From Wikipedia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jGDX0_dP5M
From Wikipedia:
One of the most significant concerts in music history occurred at Shea Stadium on Sunday, August 15, 1965, when The Beatles opened their 1965 North American tour at Shea Stadium to a record audience of 55,600.[5] It was the first concert to be held at a major stadium and set records for attendance and revenue generation, demonstrating that outdoor concerts on a large scale could be successful and profitable, and led the Beatles to return again to Shea for a very successful encore in August 1966. The attendance record was held for eight years until it was broken by Led Zeppelin at Tampa Stadium in 1973.
On July 16 and 18, 2008, Billy Joel played the last two scheduled concerts ever at the stadium, which were dubbed "The Last Play at Shea". Artists joining Joel on stage during the two shows included Tony Bennett, Don Henley, John Mayer, John Cougar Mellencamp, Steven Tyler, Roger Daltrey and Paul McCartney, who closed the July 18th concert by playing Let it Be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jGDX0_dP5M