Posted on Oct 31, 2020
Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatlemania firsthand, paving the way for the British Invasion
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Desperate to crack the American market, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote a song explicitly tailored to the American market and recorded it just two weeks before their fateful indirect encounter with Ed Sullivan. That song was “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
Desperate to crack the American market, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote a song explicitly tailored to the American market and recorded it just two weeks before their fateful indirect encounter with Ed Sullivan. That song was “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatlemania firsthand, paving the way for the British Invasion
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I remember watching them when they were on the show, my dad said that they needed a haircut, have a great Saturday Lt Col Charlie Brown
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
My Dad said the same thing about the hair but did say they were actually pretty good.
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