On Monday, August 29, 1966, the Beatles performed before about 24,000 fans at Candlestick Park, home of the baseball Giants and football Forty-Niners, in San Francisco, California. Sales were brisk but demand was not as great as during the 1965 North American tour. Approximately 8,000 tickets went unsold. As the concert closed, John Lennon told the crowd, “See you again next year.” When the Beatles’ chartered American Airlines flight left San Francisco for Los Angeles later that evening, however, George Harrison remarked to the band’s publicist, Tony Barrow, “That’s it. I’m not a Beatle anymore.” Harrison, of course, remained a member of the group until it disbanded in April 1970. Still, the Beatles’ circumstances had changed in the spring and summer of 1966. Though none of them would have predicted it that night, the band had just finished its last paid, public concert. When the Beatles returned to London on Wednesday, August 31, John, Paul, George, and Ringo were all planning to spend time apart, pursuing individual projects. Never before had the Beatles sought such a respite from each other. When they returned to EMI Studios in St. John’s Wood on November 24, though, they seemed eager to regroup.