Beatlemania began 40 years ago today

[Taualumna]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...music_eo/13454

I wasn't alive then, but I bet it was amazing to have been at the airport when they arrived!

[GeoffZ]

Wow, the top ticket price was $5.50! Crazy. I'm interested to see the tribute to them on the Grammys.

[AlphaSigOU]

I've got the DVD of the four Ed Sullivan Beatles shows... well worth the price of admission in glorious black and white (color TV wasn't all over the place yet); even more fun are the vintage TV commercials in the show!

[tinydancer]

Well, I WAS alive when it all started!! I clearly remember watching them for the first time on Ed Sullivan. Think I may have to invest in those DVDs - that would be cool to see it all over again. I also saw them LIVE in Dallas in about 1965. Now THAT was a concert!!!

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by tinydancer
Well, I WAS alive when it all started!! I clearly remember watching them for the first time on Ed Sullivan. Think I may have to invest in those DVDs - that would be cool to see it all over again. I also saw them LIVE in Dallas in about 1965. Now THAT was a concert!!!

Missed it by THAT much! I wasn't born until the following year. I do remember the moon landings, though!

The DVD set runs about $30, but you can pick 'em up for as little as $15-20 in Sam's Club or Costco.

Ahhh... we'll forgive the Seattle Museum of Flight for putting the Beatles on the Concorde - they actually flew into New York on a Pan Am Boeing 707, reportedly renamed 'Jet Clipper Beatles' for the trip. (Concorde was five years away from its first flight and 11 years from commercial service!)

[angelic1]

My mom got the Ed Sullivan DVD for my dad the other day.. we were watching it commenting on the commercials as well. I think that it would be more entertaining to see commercials like that on during the superbowl than some of the others I saw.

My dad saw them in concert as well. I am always jealous of all the great concerts my parents have gone to.. and there is a long list of them..