![]() What have we learned since that fateful night that featured four very, young men (John Lennon and Ringo Starr were still 23, Paul McCartney was 21, while the youngest, George Harrison, was still not even 21 yet.) who called themselves The Beatles? We learned how fast a nation still mourning the death of a beloved president from just 10 weeks earlier, could fall in love with a national (albeit a charming, talented one) diversion. 9, 1964, a Sunday night when most people tuned in to ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ but usually not 73 million people, which at the time was a huge chunk of the population in the country. ![]() In a recent television series titled ‘Inside the Sixties – The British Invasion,’ producer Tom Hanks said, ‘Listening to the Beatles on ‘Ed Sullivan’ perform ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ was like watching the future.’ And that future started a half a century ago on Feb. ![]() Editor’s note: Chris Lambert is, along with being a music fan, the author of the blog Comics: Don’t Get Me Started, which is part of The News-Herald’s Community Media Lab. ![]()
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