ED SULLIVAN (ROOM 204)
ED SULLIVAN (ROOM 204)
February 9th 1964, the day that changed America forever, the day that a whole nation began a love affair with four boys from Liverpool. The boys performed “All My Loving”, “Til There Was You”, “She Loves You”, “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. It seemed everybody watched the show live from the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City. Even Elvis (who also sent a good luck telegram) watched from Graceland with his stepbrother perched on his knee. Over 73,000,000 people tuned in. The ratings not only broke the record for viewers of the Ed Sullivan Show, it broke the record for any American TV audience, and by definition, it was a world record TV audience. The Beatles got lucky; there was no significant news story that day that could have detracted from the attention they were getting. They were the news story. Crime figures across America plummeted for that one evening. It seemed as a nation completely stopped. The verdict was unanimous, if the boys had got lucky they had grasped the opportunity with eight hands. Thirteen and a half minutes had changed the face of popular music (despite the fact that George had been in bed all day with a sore throat!!)
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
ED SULLIVAN (ROOM 204)
February 9th 1964, the day that changed America forever, the day that a whole nation began a love affair with four boys from Liverpool. The boys performed “All My Loving”, “Til There Was You”, “She Loves You”, “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. It seemed everybody watched the show live from the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City. Even Elvis (who also sent a good luck telegram) watched from Graceland with his stepbrother perched on his knee. Over 73,000,000 people tuned in. The ratings not only broke the record for viewers of the Ed Sullivan Show, it broke the record for any American TV audience, and by definition, it was a world record TV audience. The Beatles got lucky; there was no significant news story that day that could have detracted from the attention they were getting. They were the news story. Crime figures across America plummeted for that one evening. It seemed as a nation completely stopped. The verdict was unanimous, if the boys had got lucky they had grasped the opportunity with eight hands. Thirteen and a half minutes had changed the face of popular music (despite the fact that George had been in bed all day with a sore throat!!)
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
ED SULLIVAN (ROOM 204)
February 9th 1964, the day that changed America forever, the day that a whole nation began a love affair with four boys from Liverpool. The boys performed “All My Loving”, “Til There Was You”, “She Loves You”, “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. It seemed everybody watched the show live from the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City. Even Elvis (who also sent a good luck telegram) watched from Graceland with his stepbrother perched on his knee. Over 73,000,000 people tuned in. The ratings not only broke the record for viewers of the Ed Sullivan Show, it broke the record for any American TV audience, and by definition, it was a world record TV audience. The Beatles got lucky; there was no significant news story that day that could have detracted from the attention they were getting. They were the news story. Crime figures across America plummeted for that one evening. It seemed as a nation completely stopped. The verdict was unanimous, if the boys had got lucky they had grasped the opportunity with eight hands. Thirteen and a half minutes had changed the face of popular music (despite the fact that George had been in bed all day with a sore throat!!)
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON