Beatlemania

[SwampFox]

On this day February 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived at JFK airport for their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. We were living in Germany at the time where my late father was stationed at Ramstein AB, so we did not really hear much about this. Beatlemania caught on after we finally got the broadcast of that Ed Sullivan Show on Armed Forces TV about a year later. We also got 'A Hard Days Night' long after it was released. My folks were just as eager to see the movie as I was, because we went to the movie on a school night. 
 

If you were around back then, where were you when Beatlemania hit?

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[JimG]

It happened very fast. Their records started showing up on the radio and stores around Christmas '63.  We were kids in a small town in NC, but you couldn't miss their songs on the radio. 

The Ed Sullivan show was a must for everyone...we watched it, but didn't realize until later that they were on it for 3 straight weekends. 

Beatles paraphernalia was everywhere a year later. I remember girls in school had Beatles lunch boxes and you could buy Beatle wigs. 

Years later, as a musician and singer, while watching a tape of the Ed Sullivan show performances, it dawned on me just how amazing it all was. They set so many trends in such a short of time that I don't think there's been anything to match it. 

 

[Spur's Addiction]

Before my time. But from what I hear it was all consuming as far as popular music at the time. Never repeated since and likely to never be.

 

[kingofnerf]

I wasn't born until 1964, so I missed it the first time around, but picked up their CDs as they came out in the 1990s.

The release of their catalog one album at a time drove the digital movement back in the 1990s along with the other great 90's groups back then.