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Tonight’s mystery artist when performing in Japan were shocked not because the conservative audience wasn’t screaming but because able to actually hear themselves they realized how poor their live performances had become.  Can you guess the band??

If your guess is the Beatles you are on the money. Wikipedia reports that the boys were performing in Hamburg, Germany where they received an anonymous telegram stating: "Do not go to Tokyo. Your life is in danger”. The threat was taken seriously in light of the controversy surrounding the tour among Japan's religious and conservative groups, with particular opposition to the Beatles' planned performances at the sacred Nippon Budokan arena. As an added precaution, 35,000 police were mobilized and tasked with protecting the group, who were transported from hotels to concert venues in armored vehicles. And it was there that thanks to the polite and restrained Japanese audiences the shocked band realize because the absence of screaming fans had allowed them to hear how poor their live performances had become.

Wikipedia goes on to say: By 1966 the Beatles had grown weary of live performance In John Lennon's opinion, they could "send out four waxworks ... and that would satisfy the crowds. The group had grown unhappy with their manager, Brian Epstein, for insisting on what they regarded as an exhausting and demoralizing itinerary.

Their schedule was not the only problem though. The author or 'The Boys From Liverpool' and 'Beatles Forever' Nicholas Schaffner writes: “To the Beatles, playing such concerts had become a charade so remote from the new directions they were pursuing that not a single tune was attempted from the just-released Revolver LP, whose arrangements were for the most part impossible to reproduce with the limitations imposed by their two-guitars-bass-and-drums stage lineup.”

The boys disbanded shortly after.

Here are Paul and Ringo performing tonight's featured song during the Grammy Salute to the Beatles.