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Forty-four years ago....how many of our lives changed?

Bill

Earlier tonight, I again watched the DVD of that show.

I was a 4 year-old, man it doesn't seem THAT long ago!
I watched the DVD not long ago as well Richard,...iconic viewing don't you think?

I wasn't even 3 years old then, but my parents watched it. Later, after I bought the "Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show" DVD I watched it with them. Ed Sullivan was as ****** a show as I'd ever seen.

Except for those guys.

I was 11 months old. It seems like a very long time ago!

I was three months old. Since I no longer wear diapers and cry to be fed every hour or so, it seems very much has changed!

I was 10. Just the right age to start paying attention to these sorts of things. And perhaps the Beatles are part of the reason I play music today.

JimK

I wasn't quite 2 years old then, so I am firmly in the crowd of too young to remember. My sister was born in 1964.

I was eleven and had been waiting since the prior summer to see them playing, other than the publicity photos I was bombarded with.

I wasn't even born...

sowhat wrote:I wasn't even born...

Well Sheena, seeing that I just turned 52 this week, I can't thank you enough for pointing that out!

Bill

I was also ten. I would have missed it had not my older sister made sure the whole family watched. I kinda liked them, although at that age I was obliged to say "yuk, they sing about l-o-v-e". What I couldn't figure out was why the guy on the left of the screen had only 4 strings on his guitar.

But the next day in school????? Yikes! Thinks were NEVER the same after THAT.

I was nine. They were well known here by that point. All my peers had their records and their pics were everywhere.
We were primed for their appearance on Ed Sullivan.
They were the strongest image I'd ever seen. B&W TV, they came across as a solid, unified force. Moving rather that still magazine shots.
Dark suits, dark, nearly identical hairstyles, like we'd not been accustomed to. Smiling.
Playing very neatly and precisely these songs we'd been playing on our record players and hearing constantly on the radio.
My parents groaning and ridiculing in the background only solidifed my faith and devotion in them, that they were the best thing ever.
Yes, the next day and the next and so on, they were all the little girls at school talked about.

A seminal moment in TV, music and many people's lives.

shamustwin wrote:Playing very neatly and precisely these songs we'd been playing on our record players and hearing constantly on the radio.

It’s often not emphasized enough, in my opinion; just how good the Beatles were playing live during what I like to call, those early black-and-white years. In those simpler, more rough-and-ready recording days they had the musical ability to faithfully reproduce on stage what had been laid down on vinyl.

Arguably, the best example I can give of their live prowess during this time was a series of live radio performances they did for the BBC during 1963 /65 and first released in November 1994 under the title of “The Beatles : Live at the BBC”

For a play list of titles – please see…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_th ... s_album%29

For me, it gives more of an opportunity to listen to the live input of an early George Harrison. Who was (shall we say) allowed to be more vocally prominent during such live performances than he was on those early recordings.

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+1
A brilliant collection of Live early fabs work!
Not many bands of that era, or this one, could recreate studio-to-stage as perfectly as they could.