Like Yesterday: America Meets the Beatles

It was 50 years ago today — Feb. 7, 1964 — that the Beatles took the U.S.A. The four sprightly young Merseysiders landed at New York City’s newly renamed John F. Kennedy Airport (formerly Idlewild) and emerged from Pan Am flight 101 two days before they were to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Three thousand fans screamed and, with an urgent group wave toward the Fab Four, effectively buried all previous heartthrob vocalists. Frank Sinatra? A fossil in a tux. Elvis Presley? “He’s old a...

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