Express Newspapers/Getty It was 60 years ago today… that Ed Sullivan helped the band to play! The Beatles touched down in New York City for the first time in February 1964, and Friday marks the ...

“The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner ... Looking Back on the Beatles' Star-Making Ed Sullivan Performance on the 60th Anniversary It was no easy task to track down the legendary bass ...

John strummed rapid fire guitar triplets without missing ... Just two months after the first Ed Sullivan broadcast, the Beatles would occupy the top five positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart ...

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 ...

Beatlemania hits the U.S. on February 9, 1964, when the Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show Forty percent of the country watches and soon after divides into camps of worshipful fans ...

And yet, by the time of “The Ed Sullivan Show ... You played guitar better, you sang better. Your lyrics were a little more interesting. The Beatles weren't interested just in getting a ...

Lost for decades, an acoustic guitar John ... multiple Beatles records, including Ringo Starr’s Ludwig drum kit (which sold for US$2.2 million), the drumhead played on the Ed Sullivan Show ...

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 ...