The Beatles

Celebrate our ongoing love affair with The Beatles, the four long-haired, oddly-dressed chaps who appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday evening, February 9, 1964 with half of America watching. Editor Ben Nussbaum traces the beginnings of this first internationally famous boy band, revealing how John, Paul, George, and Ringo created the sonic sensation that changed the course of music history. Nussbaum features: *The band and its impact *Three summers of grueling tours from 1964 to 1966 *The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney *The Soviet Union's banning and bashing of the band, which only increased the youth of the U.S.S.R. to crave The Beatles more fervently *The grandeur of The Beatles song catalog *The inevitable demise of the Fab Four and how the boys, now men, grew apart musically and personally *And much more! Within just two months of the Fab Four's debut on American television, the band had secured all five top spots on BillBoard's Hot 100, and before year's end would sell an astonishing ten million records. Filled with dozens of color and black and white photographs, this popular history details the rise and fall of the band, the stories behind the men, their