FILE - The Beatles, from left, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, arrive at John F ... at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored ...

In chronological rock history, the Beatles and America are from two consecutive but different musical eras. While the former members of the Beatles were certainly making music in the years ...

In truth, America needed The Beatles in early 1964 ... Few would have imagined that its new iteration would come in the form of mop-top haircuts, close harmonies and Chesterfield suits, but ...

"Maybe America needed something like The Beatles ... stability and reassurance". "When The Beatles arrive, I think they represented that. "They were also young, vital, and [in the footage] of ...

The Beatles arrived in America in 1964 with Beatlemania in full swing - their first live US TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was watched by more than a third of the country's population.

The Beatles arrived in America in 1964 with Beatlemania in full swing - their first live US TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was watched by more than a third of the country's population. EMI's ...

The band had only arrived in New York two days before ... of its time and 'Beatlemania' quickly spread across America. That same year, The Beatles returned home and were welcomed by thousands ...