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Beatles visit revisited on CBS

 

In this highly fragmented era, a single media source just about never gets the undivided attention of a nation.  But CBS television did in February of 1964 when the Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Sunday night variety program that was a weekly viewing ritual in a tremendous number of households. On the 50th anniversary of that February 9th performance before a live audience largely comprised of screeming young women, the network will present a two hour special with footage from that appearance and the group's first visit to the States. The special will also include covers of Beatle songs done by other acts during the Sullivan show's run on the network and songs the Beatles played live on the program performed by '...today's top artists'. We get the feeling the ones chosen will not be the artists we'd like to see.