Sullivan said, “While hosting the show, I never asked performers about their religion, race, or politics. I contracted ...

On February 9, 1964, a group of four 20-something musicians from Liverpool made their debut on U.S. television and forever changed popular music. The Beatles’ appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” that ...

George Harrison, John Lennon and drummer Ringo Starr are all smiles as they chat with show host Ed Sullivan after making their television debut in America 60 years ago. On February 9, 1964, the Fab ...

Kerry Gordy, an executive producer for “Sunday Best,” proclaimed that the film was an indicator of what was to come from ...

The Beatles arrived in America 60 years ago this week, changing American music and culture. And they caught Dennis Hodo's imagination. The Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and ...

There is much media frenzy over the 60th anniversary of the famous debut of The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964, which launched Beatlemania in the U.S. as well as in other parts of ...

Sixty years ago today, on February 9, 1964, The Beatles made their American television debut in front of a record audience of 73 million people with the first of three pre-recorded appearances on The ...

A local music archivist is remembering a classic Beatles performance. Friday marks 60 Years since the band performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show. That broadcast thrust the band into superstardom in ...

The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful, more socially aware programming that would emerge in the 1970s. Viewers ...

Vince Calandra, the charismatic Ed Sullivan Show talent booker who graduated from gofer and cue-card guy to bringing such talent as The Beatles, Julie Andrews, Alan King and Jackie Mason to the ...