It was 59 years ago today (February 7th, 1964) that the Beatles landed at New York's JFK Airport launching what has become known as the "British Invasion" and forever changing the face of popular music along with literally everything that came after arguably marking the modern world's cultural "big bang." The group's trip took in three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show one being pre-taped prior to their first live appearance, and two full-scale concerts: the first at Washington, D.C.'s Washington Coliseum on February 11th one year to the day of recording their debut UK album, Please Please Me and a second show on February 12th at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall. Once in New York, George Harrison fell ill with a 102-degree temperature and missed the following day's photo shoot in and around Central Park and a camera blocking session at the midtown CBS studio. He was well enough to recover for the show without incident. P
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It was 59 years ago today January 20th, 1964 that arguably the most important rock album of all time was released, the Beatles' Meet The Beatles. Although, it wasn't the first Beatles record released in America; Vee-Jay's Introducing The Beatles beat the band's Capitol Records debut by just short of six months, it was Meet The Beatles, with its hit chart-topper "I Want To Hold Your Hand" that kick started the post-Kennedy '60s, the British Invasion, and completely revolutionized how music was written, played, sung, and produced not to mention help change the fashion world all but overnight. In short, Meet The Beatles ushered in the modern era. The album, which had an advanced order of 240,000 units, was a cobbled-together version of the group's second album, the UK chart-topper, With The Beatles, and featured 12 songs 10 John Lennon - Paul McCartney compositions, one by George Harrison and one then-popular show tune. The tracklisting to M
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