There are so many countless famous, successful rock musicians such as Gene Simmons of Kiss, Tom Petty, Richie Sambora who was only 5 years old when he saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan said they thought they were really great and that they motivated them to become musicians. This was 5 months before I was even conceived.
But I have been a huge Beatles fan since I was a child, I saw The Beatles on The Ed Sulivian show in 1974 10 years later when I was 9 after Ed died they had a Tv special showing all of the big acts he had on his shows. I started collecting Beatles albums when I was 9, The Beatles Second album was my first. I got my first Beatles book for my 11th birthday and I had every Beatles album by age 13.
There is also a recent article from The Detroit Free Press about rock photographer Tom Weschler who became a big Beatles fan at age 15 and they inspired him to become a rock photographer after he took many pictures of The Beatles on The Ed Sulivan show February 9, 1964.
| For one Detroit photographer, it all started with the Beatles, Ed Sullivan and a Kodak cameraFor Tom Weschler, who has shot some of the biggest names in music, it all started with the Fab Four in front of a TV in an Oakland County living room.www.freep.com |
And another recent article from The Columbia Daily Tribune by Roger MicKinney called, The Beatles Appeared On Ed Sulivan 60 Years Ago And Music Changed. And it quotes musician Dennis Hodo who at 13 years old watched The Beatles on Ed Sulivan with his mom and two brothers.
And he said it was life changing and he said within a short time he and his brothers had guitars and drums. And he said that The Beatles were just having fun and making great music and he said it was the first time in his life that he was struck by something.
He said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 with a car full of friends and his brothers.
Political science professor at Columbia College Terry Smith said that when he was college student when The Beatles became big in the U.S. someone from his dorm told him that he had to hear this record, Meet The Beatles their first U.S. album, and he said he knew he never heard anything like it. And then he saw them on The Ed Sulivan show and he said that it was really kind of fun, the irreverent cheeky group that was taking the world by storm and he said that it was fun and they were their music was really good.
University Of Missouri music professor Peter Zambito rightly said The Beatles from Liverpool England gained skills during long hours performing in Hamburg Germany
| The Beatles appeared on ‘Ed Sullivan’ 60 years ago, and music changed When The Beatles performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964, Dennis Hodo was overwhelmed. “It was life-changing,” the musician recalled. |
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