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The Beatles made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, including three in February 1964 that were among their first appearances in front of an American audience.

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Their first appearance, on February 9, was seen by over 73 million viewers and came to be regarded as a cultural watershed that launched American Beatlemania—as well as the wider British Invasion of American pop music^[1]—and inspired many young viewers to become rock musicians.^[2] The band also made another appearance during their 1965 U.S.

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Background

American composer and champion of music Bernard Herrmann recalled in 1970 that around 1962, he had returned to the U.S. from a conducting job in Liverpool with early Parlophone records of the Beatles that he received from the band.

According to him, the Beatles, at the time struggling to get noticed and recorded by major companies, were interested in an appearance on U.S. television programmes such as the Ed Sullivan Show and in making recordings with American record companies, in exchan

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