But how did Ed Sullivan end up booking the band ... “Life went from black and white to color. There was life pre-Beatles and life post-Beatles, and nothing was ever the same.

Wow, sixty-one years ago today, on Sunday, February 9, 1964, The Ed Sullivan Show introduced America to The Beatles.

Jay Leno tells PEOPLE he was concerned he would be criticized for not performing a spot-on Ed Sullivan impression in the new ...

When the Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9 ... It was like going from black-and-white to color. Really. I ...

On Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from ...

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 ...

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On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived on American shores for ... Two days later, the band’s legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was watched on television by an estimated 73 million ...

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 ...