The Beatles were incredible. They transformed an entire generation. Hard to explain unless you've lived through it.

So many great American rock bands say this was the moment that changed their lives.

I was "there" when the Beatles first came out. They changed the whole music scene forever. 06:12 Little Richard was one of Paul's idols, and he adopted the high pitched "ooooo" from Richard.

When the Beatles first toured the U.S. in 1964 they had a eye opening experience in one location... In September of 1964 they were scheduled to play at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville Florida. Much to their surprise and horror, Paul McCartney and John Lennon found out that the crowd was to be segregated. Remember, not only Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, but many African American early rock pioneers were some of the Beatles earliest influences, ESPECIALLY Chuck Berry! They LOVED Chuck Berry and Little Richard! Paul got his "OOOO" from Little Richard! Anyway... in Jacksonville the whites got to be down in front and the blacks had to be way up in the stands. The Beatles REFUSED to play unless the city revoked their charter on segregation at public events. "We never play to segregated audiences, and we aren't going to start now," John Lennon is quoted as having said at the time. "I'd sooner lose our appearance money." The City and promoters finally relented. The very first integrated concert in the south was because of the Beatles. After that, all segregated stadiums and venues eventually disappeared allowing all races to interact and have fun listing to great music. The Beatles not only changed music forever, they changed the culture forever!

If you didn't live through it, it's impossible to really explain. Nothing like it before or since. They changed everything. I was six years old, watching them on Ed Sullivan. What a glorious time.

I was only 7, but I remember this like it was yesterday...I always refer to this time as to "when they landed on this planet"..That's how earth-shattering it was..Something that can't properly be conveyed, and give it justice...This was teeny-bopper, but they moved with light speed, and you'd struggle to keep up. Their music was ever evolving.

They were the ones who truly changed music

The Beatles are EVERYTHING. God's gift to the universe.

The music, the way people dressed, everything changed after the Beatles came on the scene. Ed Sullivan Show was their first American exposure on tv.

The crowd response is why the Beatles quit doing concerts. When they would come out, the girls would scream non-stop. They couldn't even hear their own instruments.

The studio version of this song is a must listen, Paul kills it with a much higher energy than on this.

When the Beatles came out there was a huge shift in American music and the change began ♥️😎

Just a heads up. If you don't want to P.O. the Beatles fans do not ever refer to them as a mere "Boy Band!"

Just wanted to make a point....the Beatles get credited with so many well deserved things but remember this....they were the 1st big pop/rock Band. Before them, most everyone was a solo artist with a backing band. Bill Haley AND the Comets, Buddy Holly AND the Crickets...or there were just solo artists like Little Richard, Chuck Berry etc. They set the course for every rock band to follow...and the list is endless!!!!

Do “Get Back” Rooftop live

Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember Beatlemania!! I also watched this performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 when it happened, I was 8 years old. My sister, who is 5 years older than me, and her friend, were sitting on the floor in front of the tv SCREAMING so loud I could hardly hear the tv! That night Beatlemania hit the US and it's never been the same since. Haha! Beatlemania swept across the country, screaming girls everywhere the Beatles went.

The Beatles have influenced nearly every band that has come along since then. They are the greatest band in rock history, and you really haven't scratched the surface of their music catalogue. You should go from here to I Want To Hold Your Hand, and She Loves You. Two songs that really made people stop, look and listen, and then see how they evolved from then, to Hard Days Night, Penny Lane, Hey Jude, Revolution, Sgt Peppers.......and on. 👍

Good call on the Little Richard influence, he was a large influence on Paul and John. For more proof of The Beatles popularity, check out the footage of their arrival at Kennedy Airport, a couple of days before this TV show appearance. Thousands of kids showed up when their plane landed and the authorities were overwhelmed. The press conference that soon followed is pretty funny too.

Greatest Rock and Roll Band in History. More #1 hit songs than any solo artist or Band ever, and that record still stands to this day. Remember, this Band was only together for 7 years. Unbelievable, what they did in that short period of time. They really did change rock music for ever. They put Elvis, and Little Richard and all of the others out of business. After The Beatles came on the scene in 63, there were many more Bands from both America, and Britain to follow.

I saw this on TV in 1964 on the original broadcast. I was 12 years old. Remember, it was only about 10 weeks after JFK was assassinated, and we were still psychologically devastated. To have this joy and excitement come at that moment cannot be understated at how it lifted our spirits when it was needed so badly.

At the time, everything that they did was cutting edge. They revitalized rock and turned it from a minor genre to the dominant genre in the world.

the Beatles played with Little Richard early in his career when he was touring England and he taught them to go "Woooo!" I was 9 years old and in Grade 4 when this show was on TV... it was on Sunday night, and the next day (Monday) the school yard was abuzz.... the girls AND us boys... the world was suddenly a much more exciting place for all of us, just knowing that the Beatles were on the planet.

At one time during that year, they had the top five songs in the country.

"BEATLEMANIA" ... I HAD IT BAD!! MY FIRST CONCERT WAS THE BEATLES IN 1965 AT THE 0AKLAND COLLISEUM, IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ... I WAS 15. IT'S A MIRACLE I LIVED THROUGH IT!! 😍

They opened for Little Richard in 1962 in Hamburg! They loved him. You should react to their concert in Australia (where 302,000 people showed up just to watch them driving through the streets.) The recorded portion of that concert is only about 20 minutes long but I love watching reactions to it. So great! I wish I had been alive to see all this in person.

They were ground breaking back then! Played own instruments & wrote their own songs! Before The Beatles, most artists had someone write their songs for them. Little Richard toured with The Beatles in the early days in the UK. He taught Paul that rock scream. Their lookwas different too. That was one hair back in those days.

They wrote 230 of the greatest songs in musical history and, before they were famous, played in a Club in Hamburg, Germany for SEVEN Hours a NIGHT, without a break, for 6 months solid to perfect their craft and went on to break every existing musical record ...

I watched it with my 3 sisters when they did this live! And Paul is still adorable!

The lead track on their first album. Says it all...absolute banger

This was at the very beginning of Beatlemania in the US. The day after this telecast aired-everything changed from the music to guys hairstyles letting their hair grow long. England experienced Beatlemania in November 1963-Ed sullivan was at the London airport as the Beatles were returning from concerts in Sweden to hordes of screaming girls. Ed was so overwhelmed that he was the first to sign the Beatles to appear on his show not knowing who they were.

When their first singles were released, the hard rock chords and drumming were unlike anything that had come before. It was all monaural AM radio, but it was hard and it rocked, and it was electrifying. This was the very beginning. You can spend a year on the rest of their catalogue. No one else like them.

Beatlemania was like nothing that ever happened before...or since. Ask anyone from my generation and they'll be able to tell you exactly where they were when they heard the news of JFK's assassination, and where they were when they watched the Beatles first appearance on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show." Go back and look at the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1964 and you'll see weeks where The Beatles occupied FIVE of the top ten spots on the chart, and in some cases, the songs were two-sided hit records (where both sides were considered the A-side, which was virtually unprecedented). The flip side of "I Saw Her Standing There" was also a hit -- they were both A-sides of the same record. Check out "I Want to Hold Your Hand." By about 1966, the Beatles were sick of touring because they couldn't hear themselves play. That led to some of the best studio work, including albums like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album, Abbey Road and more. There is no group in history that has "duplicated" what the Beatles were. They were so much more than a musical group. They fundamentally changed pop culture. Boys started wearing their hair long and wanted to dress like the Beatles. I had a Beatles wig, wore Beatle boots, when they started wearing bellbottom trousers, every hip guy wore bellbottoms, and most importantly, they opened the floodgates for what became known as "the British Invasion," paving the way for other British musical artists to have huge commercial success on the American top 40 charts -- artists like The Rolling Stones, the Kinks, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Herman's Hermits, the Animals, the Hollies, Moody Blues, the Fortunes, Cream, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Chad & Jeremy, Lulu, Peter & Gordon, Jonathan King, Freddie and the Dreamers, Spencer Davis Group, Donovan, the Searchers, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, the Yardbirds, Tom Jones, The Who, Georgie Fame, the Troggs, the Zombies, and many, many more. The Beatles started the whole chain reaction. And what you saw in the Ed Sullivan audience in this video was typical of the reaction the Beatles got everywhere they went. I really can't overstate the huge impact the Beatles had, both on music and on society as a whole. It remains one of the most under-appreciated and misunderstood things by your generation who came along too late to experience it first hand. They were simply the biggest thing going in the world of music for about seven years. They cut foreign language versions of many of their hits to satisfy the demand for their records in non-English speaking countries. And even after The Beatles broke up, their members -- John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr -- each went on to have mega-successful solo careers, each one having multiple #1 hits in the years right after the break-up. To this day, Paul McCartney can fill stadiums full of screaming fans who still love hearing him perform. And he can still play and sing like Paul McCartney. Their influence on music, on pop culture, on how other artists write, was so widespread, it's hard to describe. Suffice it to say there has been no musical artist since the Beatles to come even close. Michael Jackson, I guess, you could say is the one whose worldwide popularity might have rivaled that of the Beatles. But consider: MJ was just another one of the Jacksons until he did a duet with Paul McCartney, and almost immediately after that, the McCartney/Beatles "juju" rubbed off on Michael and he soared to new heights and became the superstar we now think of him as being. He really didn't enjoy that status until releasing that duet with Sir Paul. And even at his height, Michael never equalled all the different feats of the Beatles. The Beatles were the first to record on 4-track tape. They had a number of other innovations. Again, the Beatles just had a level of influence on music and pop culture that no artist has had in the years since.

"They must of been the biggest thing out in their day!" Try ever! You should definitely listen to more Beatles!

This was my senior year in high school, The Beatles brought joy and they always had fun performing and it was infectious. Watch them live in 1970 doing "Don't let me Down'.

We waited all week !!! For the Ed Sullivan show !!!sunday evening everyone got around the Tv and well it’s hard to explain 😊

True story, those screaming girls were pivotal in getting the ball rolling on making stage amplifiers louder. That quest for volume, lead to the magic of amplifier distortion that made everything since so great.

Charisma, charisma charisma. These guys have never yet been replicated. It was like having guys like Michael Jackson, Prince, etc all in the 1 group. The world today desperately needs another supergroup like The Beatles - if it's possible !

This guys inspired the beginning of the rocking roll and the young culture all around the world. They are not just a rock band they are history. People went crazy becase they never had seen nothing like that before.

My dad was killed March 64, then JFK was assassinated, about 10 weeks later, watched the Beatles with Grandma on the Ed Sullivan show, then had my Aunt's niece, movie star Delores Hart come and visit us. What a year that was.

I watched this live back in the day. They hit America like a storm and changed rock forever. They started the whole British Invasion. All these unknown bands from England hit soon after this. I think The Rolling Stones were the first to follow.

Love it❤️ still love my guys. Give me the chills, even after all these years!

When The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, Paul McCartney was 21, George Harrison was 20, and both John Lennon and Ringo Starr were 23. So, yeah, they were kids. I saw this show live, and I was 5. Even though I was a little girl, I had a crush on Paul!! 😉😍

In general, the wild teen reaction to the Beatles was due to the fact that there had never been anything like them before. Being cool, hip young, British, cute, talented, and playing really good music also helped their popularity. Talk about right time right place!

They WERE the hottest thing. Beatlemania was an incredible thing to experience. And the way they progressed and evolved over the next few years was epic.

Already here they were pretty heavy. Amazing band that is almost metaphysical. Check out the amount of great songs they made, the incredible progression in the music they made, and look at the few years they were active, and you will get it.

One of the things they did that was different was they wrote their own songs, back then most singers had others write songs for them , like Elvis he didn't write his songs. They also had long hair and wore matching suits and had their English accents. all that made them really appealing. The world had never seen anyone like that. They were all good looking as compared to the Rolling Stones.

when the Beatles first came to America and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time - in NYC, while the Beatles were actually performing, there were no crimes reported in the entire city.

Beatles were good friends with Little Richard...Met him on his UK tours and were huge fans of his. And yes, they stole his high note wails...lol

This was a life altering moment for many.Thanks for doing this.

Beatles set the gold standard for having fans go absolutely crazy for a band. Every since then every popular band are compared to being the "next beatles" in fan reaction/obsession

I was 11, now 69 I've got a lump in my throat, thinking of the years that have passed and all the great music they inspired.

we were 12 to 14 years old and these 4 handsome boys were singing songs we could dance too. it made us scream and have day dreams. then the rolling stones, animals, dave clark 5, paul revere and the raiders joined the bunch and too many more to list. loved it smiles and love thank you for the reaction

I feel blessed to have seen this as a kid. My parents watched Ed Sullivan every week. Ed had great bands on his. “We got a really show tonight” Ed’s trademark entry!👍

They did a concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on this same tour, and it was absolutely crazy with a stadium full of screaming fainting young teenage girls.You couldn't even hear the Beatles sing.

I remember being mesmerized watching the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan show. My taste in music was instantly transformed forever. I saw them live in St. Louis in 1966. The girls were still screaming but it was really cool seeing the Fab Four live. I enjoy your reactions. Rock on. 🤘 Peace. ✌

The Beatles are still HUGE even today. "The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide. They hold the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart (15), most number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (20), and most singles sold in the UK (21.9 million). The band received many accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 film Let It Be) and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards." -Wikipedia "Half a century after their breakup, The Beatles were still the biggest rock band of 2020, shifting 1.094 million album-equivalent units through the first six months of the year, 326,000 units ahead of the genre’s second-place finisher, Queen. The Fab Four also had the fifth-bestselling vinyl album of the year, selling 54,000 copies of their 1969 opus Abbey Road. They had good company in the vinyl category, including fellow classic rock icons Queen and Pink Floyd, pop supernova Billie Eilish and retro-rock heartthrob Harry Styles. The Beatles also perform exceptionally well on streaming services, with many songs racking up hundreds of millions of plays." -Forbes

I was 5 but I still remember how excited I was to watch The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. My sister and I sat in front of the TV set screaming and shaking our heads. Our dad couldn't get over their "long" hair, lol. Their coming to America was HUGE news, covered by all the media at the time.

Super classic hit. If you ever watched the 1980s comedy classic movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, this song is featured prominently in one scene. Song has been covered many times including a girl named Tiffany who rose to fame by performing cover songs in shopping malls until she got a record deal. Here is a link to her cover of it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na-JmLGcq7TFpoU.html Actually just caught a correction, it was another Beatle's song, Twist and Shout, that was prominently featured in Ferris Bueller's Day off. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btB_frF-meCdiqc.html

Wow! When the Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in February 1964, I was an 11 year old kid and I was hooked on their music and their looks from that moment on. I was so used to hearing my mom's favorite music, Elvis and the do-wop music that the Beatles music was a welcome change. They changed the music world from that point on and even after they split up 6 years later, they still were looked up to by other musicians. I'll never forget those Ed Sullivan appearances. Thanks for a great reaction to a great band. You two rock!

This was 1964. Check them out in the roof top concert 5 years later, 1969. Five years that completely changed music forever. There was nothing like it before or since. The Beatles stand head and shoulders above every other band as far as their influence on the world.

The Beatles came to America a few months after the assassination of President Kennedy and helped to bring us out of our national mourning. They wrote their own songs, played their own instruments, were cute as hell with their moptop haircuts and suits. As an original Beatlemaniac, I was in front of the tv watching them on the Ed Sullivan show during this performance and every other one. They changed music forever.

This was the start of “The Sixties” Twist n Shout was just a cover. But great. I Saw Her Standing There was HUUUGE!! Hard Days Night and She Loves You were even bigger!!! The WORLD caught FIRE with what was called Beatlemania!! Little did anyone know but the world was going from black n white to full bore COLOR!!!!

It is hard to put yourself back in our first experience, but if you imagine that you are watching your grandmother react like this, it gives you an idea on the magnitude of their impact. Nobody played this tight, at this speed with these harmonies. And they wrote the song.

Asia and BJ, I remember watching it that night, on TV. I was about 5 or 6, and ,my mom and dad let me stay up late, past my bed time, so I could see the Beatles. It was a real big deal back then.

You should watch the movie "Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years" to see The Beatles at their best with all of the crowd reactions.

I saw them live at the Cavern club in Liverpool in 1962 just before they became famous, great times!

The Beatles loved Little Richard, and covered "Long Tall Sally", and also "Twist and Shout" was an Isley Brothers tune.

It was 1964 . I was 4 and i watched it with my mom and dad . My family watched Ed Sullivan every Sunday night at 8 pm because my father was a behind the camera crew member at WCBS-TV the CBS owned and operated tv station in Nyc.i borrowed my mother's hairbrush so i could sing along with She Loves You(yeah yeah yeah).

There are The Beatles and the rest. Period.

Besides their Boy band early magical music ,they were also dead serious young men ,fully aware of the world around them . On this 1964 US tour,the Beatles refused to play in racially segregated stadiums and authorities ensured the Beatles got their way..

Oh this takes me back! One of my fave old school Beatles songs! That LONG HAIR scared adults to death! Comical to look back at the hysteria around them. I don’t think there has been anything since. There are videos with them in a stadium and the screaming is so loud you basic candy hear them. It was CRAZY!

This was the first song my band ( when I was 11 years old ) performed before a Live Audience

That crowd reaction was actually quite mild. BTW, their haircuts were considered very long for that time. A lot of parents did not approve.

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BEST...BAND...EVER ! More Beatles!!!!!! Thank you

Love The Beatles!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. No doubt about it have I been in the audience, I would have lost my mind!😁😁

Imagine people thinking that their haircuts were considered too long……

When I was 7 years old, this was one of the only times I remember that my parents allowed me to stay up past 8 pm to watch the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. (The other time was to watch "The Wizard of Oz".)

WOW! I’m back in time with eight friends, in front of a black and white tv. All of us screamed from the moment they got on stage until they left. We actually drowned them out, but we didn’t care, and by the way…….We were all in love with Paul!

The Beatles took rock and roll into the future and are still considered the greatest rock and roll band of all time.

Billy Joel, Sting. Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Tom Petty, Kiss, Crosby, Stills & Nash and alot more saw this and it changed their lives and learned how to play in a rock n roll band, becaue of them. They changed the world.

This was the first time they performed in the US, so it was the first time an American audience saw them, and they already had everybody excited.

They were beyond sensational,let’s just get that right.You can never really know how it felt,if you weren’t there.I was 14,when the exploded on the scene,and I feel it,to this day.

The Beatles are the greatest musical act of all time. They were the first to do a lot of things musically, but their biggest accomplishment was because of their ever changing sound, the equipment around them was being improved and thus was born the multi-track system.

I remember watching this with my Parents and The Girls in the live studio audience were passing out with excitement! In the wonderful year of 1964.

This Band was and is STILL COOL....not only how their music progressed, but seeing their appearances do the same in a power packed 7 year span....

Asia, I was in 1st grade watching the Ed Sullivan show, I was kissing the tv!!!!! I loved Paul!!

WOW, I remember watching this live on tv...now I feel really old.

Someone hit the nail directly on the head, when they described the Beatles as the world's greatest Bar Band! When I went back and listened to them in that context, having been in a couple of good bar bands, I saw just how accurate that was.

We can never get you to realize how big ,and important they were.

Watched this on our black n white TV as a kid in the 60’s! My mom loved Paul so we got to watch the Beatles “welcome to America” on The Ed Sullivan show! 😱And, we ate TV dinners in the living room!! What a night!! I still own the vinyl album called The Beatles Live At The Bowl. The Fab Four played their first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum!

Dude, you're amazing. You are so spot on with what you say. My granddaughter is getting to the age that she might appreciate The Beatles, and I'll direct her toward your channel.

First time I heard the Beatles was in 1963, I was 9 years old .. everyone wanted to be a Beatle.

This was world shaking when they came to the US in '64. Every teenager was glued to the TV for this including me.

The Beatles were forged in the fire of rough and tough clubs in Hamburg Germany. Little Richard, also touring in Hamburg, claims he took them under his wing and bought their meals when they couldn't afford to. The Beatles apparently shared a dressing room with their Rock n Roll idol and Paul McCartney learned his iconic scream from Little Richard

The Beatles were first in many ways, but one of their achievements will NEVER be broken. On April 4th, 1964, they held the top five spots on Billboard. 1. Can't Buy Me Love. 2. Twist and Shout. 3. She Loves You. 4. I Wanna Hold Your Hand. 5. Please Please Me. Plus the fact that they charted three # 1 singles in a row.

I was 8 when they were on Ed Sullivan, and I can remember the next day in the lunch room at school everyone was mesmerized talking about they.

At around that time, "Please Please Me" was my favourite Beatles song and I had it on 7 inch vinyl. A tribute band called The Fab Four do a fantastic version of Please Please Me and many other Beatles songs. (Fab Four Beatles tribute full concert)

The Beatles had been playing shows since 1960, so by the time they arrived in the US in 1964, they were a tight rock n' roll band live in concert... 🔥🔥🤘🤘They had just finished a European & UK tour that kept them on the road in 1963...

I remember watching that show! I was 15 years old and my life changed! Almost seems like it was yesterday. I still love them.