the kids were gathered around and we asked what was going on? we didn t each know who the beatles were, we never heard of them. that night i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, george mccartney and john lennon for three shows for $10,000. for four white guys that were british, to come out of nowhere and be everywhere was unbelievable. the beatles are a butch of guys from liverpool. i mean, people in london would have looked down at liverpool back then. but liverpool was a port town and port towns become place where is contraband gets exchanged. one of them at that point was great music. a lot of the sailors coming back to america were bringing back these records. some were race records because they were by black artists.
ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the united states, here are the beatles singing i want to hold your hand. oh, yeah, i tell you something i think you ll understand that song really started to take off. it was impossible to anticipate how much that momentum would continue. hi, everybody. all over america, this is the wwbc party go, go. i want to hold your hand that song was absolutely contagious. i think the teenager found a voice. here s what s happening, baby. the beatles! there was a moment where you just heard, this is our music now. it was like hearing the future. i want to hold your hand i have to ask how you first found out about them.
the british invasion had legs because there was more great music to back it up. a big hello. rich. i m larry. i m dennis. i m dave. for the first six months they were singing, they sold over a million records a month. and in the words of one of their biggest hits, we re mighty glad to have you with us tonight. ladies and gentlemen, the dave clark five. you say that you love me all of the time you say that you need me, you ll always be mine they re rivalling the beatles
he was bold enough to leave his comfort zone. i ain t going to work on maggie s farm no more it s not just about dylan going electric. it s about the fusion of music that was really political and rock n roll which had not been overtly political. there s nothing like the feeling of your audience not being with you and walking out on you. people took it personal. you know, it s a part of your establishment and forget it. they felt betrayed. like you re supposed to be our woody guthrie and you sold out.
sergeant peppers became the thing. you drop the needle on it and you would hear a crackle and be taken away on this journey. sergeant pepper was our opera. it sounded unlike anything we were used to. the 60s, lyrics are generally infantile and it s noise, not music. but the sergeant pepper album was brilliant, signifying a break from the old ways of being entertained. it really caught the moment. this music is crucial to today s art, and it s crucial