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Beatlesmania Lives On! Looking Back 60 Years After John, Paul, George and Ringo Conquered the U.S.
Beatlesmania lives on! Looking back on one of the most influential bands of all time 60 years after John, Paul, George and Ringo conquered the United States.
“I can’t tell you how incredible it was,” said Ringo Starr of arriving in the U.S., where 3,000 fans welcomed him, George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney at NYC’s JFK airport on February 7, 1964. “I’d seen quite a few of our major stars go to the States and come back and they weren’t famous,” said Paul, here making a splash in Miami before the band’s second gig on The Ed Sullivan Show, on February 16. While John, Paul and Ringo got to horse around in Central Park before their U.S. TV debut, George stayed back at the Plaza Hotel nursing his strep throat.
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