The Beatles first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. The performance was the crowning moment in the group’s first tour of the U.S. It helped open the flood gates for the British ...

Teenage girls threw themselves behind the Beatles and helped Ed Sullivan create the most-watched television event of its time ...

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On the 50th anniversary of The Beatles landmark “Ed Sullivan Show” performance, Donovan, Peter Asher, Beatles scholar Martin Lewis and their secretary, Freda Kelly, reflect on the band's ...

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Jay Leno makes a cameo as Ed Sullivan ... about the Beatles, it's just about Brian Epstein," he says. Epstein died of an accidental overdose at 32 in 1967. "It was just fun for me to hear [bands ...

As she remarked to Maura Kelly in 2007, "The lightning bolt came out of the heavens and struck [my sister] Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' My family was ...

Baby Boomers and the Beatles have been linked since the Fab Four’s first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February ... and that came from me. And from growing up with all the music ...

It was 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964. Across North America, families gathered around their black-and-white TVs. In Rexdale, Jeanette Smith’s parents took the kids to their aunt and uncle’s house to ...

Leno, who was around 14 when the Beatles played their first concert ... I said, 'I don't really do an impression of Ed Sullivan.' They said to me, 'No one in England knows who Ed Sullivan is.