The Beatles - 1964-02-09 - New York, NY (SBD)

The Beatles

1964-02-09

The Ed Sullivan Show

New York, NY

Soundboard Recording

320 Kbps

Artwork Included

01.  Intro > All My Loving

02.  Till There Was You

03.  She Loves You

04.  Intro > I Saw Her Standing There

05.  I Want To Hold Your Hand > Outro

The Beatles - 1964-02-09 - New York, NY (SBD)

Perhaps the most significant moment in rock & roll history transpired 60 years ago today, on February 9, 1964, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show for the very first time. A nation weary and shocked by the assassination of President Kennedy needed to be uplifted, and The Beatles did that and more. An estimated 73 million Americans tuned into that broadcast, and after 5 songs, which could barely be heard over the screams of the teenage girls who packed the audience, music, TV and pop culture were transformed forever. Beatlemania, The British Invasion, stadium sized rock concerts, album oriented rock, new fashion trends and hairstyles, TV as a major promotional vehicle for reaching the masses and countless other revolutions followed in the wake of the Beatles appearance on the Sullivan show. The band would appear twice more in February, on the 16th and the 23rd, once in May 1964, and then again in September 1965 (a month after the historic Shea Stadium show highlighted in an earlier post), their last live appearance. The Beatles continued to work with Ed Sullivan from 1966 and 1970, however, replacing live performances with filmed promotional clips of their new songs, the first ever music videos, years prior to the launch of MTV! Those videos included Paperback Writer, Rain, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, Hello Goodbye, Two Of Us and Let It Be. This soundboard captures that first live appearances on Ed Sullivan Show, which is frequentlly refered to as "the night that changed America."  Download it and relive history.