Teenage police officer, 19, who silenced The Beatles’ last ever live gig says he has no regrets
Teenage police officer, 19, who silenced The Beatles’ last ever live gig: Retired PC, 72, says he has no regrets about shutting down rooftop concert in 1969 but admits threat to arrest band for playing music too loudly was a ‘bluff’
Ray Dagg was the 19-year-old responding to noise complaints made by neighbours on January 30, 1969The Beatles were performing their last gig on the roof of Apple Records headquarters, 3 Savile Row, in LondonDagg’s involvement has resurfaced following the release of Peter Jackson’s eight-hour documentary Get Back
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The teenage police officer who silenced The Beatles‘ last ever live gig has said he has no regrets about shutting down the rooftop concert in 1969, but admitted his threat to arrest the band for playing music too loudly was a ‘bluff’.
Ray Dagg, a former London Metropolitan Police constable and now 72, was the 19-year-old responding to noise complaints made by neighbours on January 30, 1969.
John, Paul, George and Ringo were performing their last gig, a 42-minute set that included hits Get Back, Don’t Let Me Down and I Got a Feeling, on the roof of The Beatles’ Apple Records headquarters at 3 Savile Row in London.
Dagg’s involvement in The Beatles’ famed rooftop concert has resurfaced following the release of Peter Jackson’s eight-hour documentary Get Back.
The teenage police officer who silenced The Beatles’ last ever live gig (pictured) has said he has no regrets about shutting down the rooftop concert in 1969, but admitted his threat to arrest the band for playing music too loudly was a ‘bluff’
PC Ray Dagg (pictured) who stopped The Beatles final live performance of a rooftop in London in 1969
Ray Dagg (middle), a former London Metropolitan Police constable and now 72, was the 19-year-old responding to noise complaints made by neighbours on January 30, 1969. Pictured: The Beatles’ road manager, Mal Evans (right)
The series, on Disney+, is based on more than 60 hours of footage recorded by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for his 1970 documentary Let It Be.
As such, Dagg has become a cult figure, inundated with Facebook friend requests and interview opportunities.
Responding to his new found fame, Dagg said: ‘It was just work, and it’s blown up into all this.
‘It’s ridiculous, I just don’t understand it,’ he told the Sunday Times.
John (right), Paul (left), George and Ringo were performing their last gig, a 42-minute set that included hits Get Back, Don’t Let Me Down and I Got a Feeling, on the roof of The Beatles’ Apple Records headquarters at 3 Savile Row in London
Dagg’s involvement in the Beatles’ famed rooftop concert has resurfaced following the release of Peter Jackson’s eight-hour documentary Get Back. Teenage police officer Dagg circled
Dagg convinced The Beatles’ road manager, Mal Evans, to stop the concert, but admitted his threats to arrest the band were a ‘bluff’.
Responding to the noise, Dagg told Evans that the West End Central police station in Savile Row had received ’30 complaints…within minutes’.
Reflecting on his role in rock history, Dagg said: ‘Well, at that time, I didn’t know that they would never play together again.’
Responding to the noise, Dagg told Evans that the West End Central police station in Savile Row had received ’30 complaints…within minutes’
Born in Chelsea, Dagg followed his father into the force, but left the Met six years after The Beatles’ rooftop concert (above)
Portrait of the The Beatles. From left to right: Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison, circa 1965
‘At least there’s something on a film somewhere that will forever show that PC Ray Dagg shut down The Beatles.
‘If that’s my lasting image of life, if that’s what people remember me for, that’s not bad. Thousands, millions of people don’t get remembered at all.’
Born in Chelsea, Dagg followed his father into the force, but left the Met six years after The Beatles’ rooftop concert.
He said he’s never actually owned a Beatles album and preferred Simon and Garfunkel.
