PROLOGUE
It is February 9, 1964.
About 73 million Americans are huddled around their television sets. They are on edge. They are full of anticipation. They are watching the first live performance on American soil of a new musical group. The group has an unlikely name: the Beatles.
At the age of 23, John Lennon and Ringo Starr are the oldest. Paul McCartney is 21. George Harrison is just 20. The young musicians are appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, a popular but stodgy entertainment series. In the studio itself, 728 tickets were sold; there had been 50,000 requests.1
Ed Sullivan introduces the performers:
Now yesterday and today our theater’s been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation, ...
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