The Beatles' press conference in Minneapolis, August 1965, played a part in—or rather, added a guitar to—the group's 1966 album Rubber Soul. Britt Aamodt opens up on the case of the twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar with Minnesota provenance.

The Fab Four played just one night in Minnesota, in 1965. Amazingly, the concert didn't sell out. Find out why.

Minneapolis Tribune reporter Susan Stocking serving coffee to John Lennon at a hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota, on August 21, 1965. Stocking disguised herself as a waitress in order to enter a room with John Lennon, Ringo Star, and George Harrison. The image illustrated the article, “I Was a Waitress for Three Beatles,” published in the Minneapolis Tribune on August 23, 1965. Captured from microfilm in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Audience members at a Beatles concert at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.

Audience members at a Beatles concert at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.

Metropolitan Stadium (Bloomington, Minnesota) during a performance by the Beatles, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.

The Beatles performing at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.

The Beatles performing at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.

Beatles press conference at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.