Half a century after the Beatles set foot on US soil for the first time, America is celebrating the first British band to make it big stateside
They came, they sang, they conquered. And 50 years after four young men from
Liverpool with rebellious "mopcut" haircuts and a cheeky swagger
set foot on US soil for the first time, America will for the next two weeks
embark on a golden anniversary spree of Beatlemania.
Even on the transatlantic Pan Am Clipper flight to New York, John Lennon had
wondered whether the Beatles were really going to make it big in America, a
market that no British performers had previously captured.
The tumultuous scenes that greeted them at Kennedy airport on Feb 7, 1964
quickly put those doubts to rest. Two days later, 73 million viewers – a
near-unimaginable 40 per cent of the country – tuned in to see the US debut
on CBS's Ed Sullivan Show of a group that had been almost unknown
there a few weeks earlier.
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