Anyone Here See The Beatles On The Ed Sullivan Show?

Yup. I knew what I wanted to grow up to be after watching that night: a TV variety show host.

I was 10 and watching with my Dad. He laughed out loud at the first close up of Ringo. Said something about his nose sticking out from under the hair. I was captivated and began playing guitar. My uncle gave me a mid-50’s Kay. I put bass strings on it. I have never lost interest in the Beatles and I am touring Abbey Road studios in August. Bucket list-?

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Anyone Here See The Beatles On The Ed Sullivan Show?

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Yes but barely remember - just that I saw it at something like 7 years old. Weirdly, it was at my grandmother's house. She loved Ed Sullivan and watched the rock acts and liked them. I remember the Animals on Ed Sullivan more than the Beatles. My father still is pissed with the Beatles because they played a very short concert in Kansas City in 1964 - the same year as the Ed Sullivan Show. Charlie Finley owned the Kansas City A's at the time and moved them to Oakland shortly after. The Beatles had an open date and Charlie Finley threw the checkbook at them in order to get them to play. The members of the band were pissed to lose a down day. They played to the exact time required in the contract and then walked off the stage in the middle of a song. I think they played for around 40 minutes. It wasn't a sellout and Charlie Finley lost his arse.

I was born in 1958, family of nine with five older sisters, black and white TV, Ed Sullivan on a Sunday night in 1964 and every family member, including my mom and dad were glued to the little black and white TV watching the first wave of the British Invasion.

I did see the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. The whole family watched it every Sunday night. (Was I the only one who found Topio Gigio incredibly annoying?) But back to the Beatles. My oldest brother and my older sister were completely enamored, therefore I was, too.

I seem to also remember Elvis on Ed Sullivan, but I checked the dates for when he was on and I would’ve been too young to have a memory of it. But my memory is that I was puzzled by the reaction of the screaming girls in the studio audience and kept asking my mom what he was doing to get them to scream like that, and she just smiled and didn’t answer.

I was 12, and begged my parents all week to let me miss Sunday night church to see the ed sullivan show. They did!
Seeing the Beatles led to my getting a guitar and learning how to play.

I'd read that if their management wasn't excessively cheap with the production costs of putting on a proper live show, the band probably would've toured throughout their career. If that’s the reason why they stopped, it's a tragedy...

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They were just tapped out by the time they broke up.

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But they all went on to successful singles careers.