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Cover Story: Forty Years of Beatlemania
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 9th, 1964, a short,
stiff man with rubbery bloodhound features — Ed Sullivan, the
host of the highest-rated variety hour on American television
— addressed his New York studio audience and the folks tuned
in at home over the CBS network.
"Yesterday and today, our theater's been jammed with
newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the
nation," Sullivan said in a nasally chuckling voice. "And these
veterans agreed with me...
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