"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you...."

[mia]

Who remembers seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show sixty years ago today?
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=552683958891071

[Glorfindel]

1. I remember seeing them

But I'm pretty sure it was SIXTY years ago today. Strangely enough, I woke up thinking about that song this morning.

[mia]

3. Thank you!

I edited it.

[MuseRider]

2. Life changing.

I was 10. Everything was different after that for me.

[FalloutShelter]

4. I was ten also and

It was all anyone talked about , children , AND adults.

The Beatles music opened a new world of expression for me. They kickstarted my creative journey.
I began to sketch their portraits.

Today, I am an artist and author of four books.
Thank you BEATLES for my creative awakening.

[MuseRider]

5. Wow that is awesome!

I became a musician!

[FalloutShelter]

6. How cool is that?

Nice to meet you and thank you John, Paul, George, and Ringo .

John’s death was responsible for my expanded political activism on gun control. I organized several concerts to benefit the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. So, the Beatles have been a thru line for me.

Do you still make music? I hope so.

[MuseRider]

14. My health forced me out of the Symphony. (heart/breathing problems)

A couple of years out and I can hardly stand it and do not enjoy just playing myself. So, I just had some corrective surgery on a broken hand that I had to have re broken to straighten out a finger in hopes that I can play again. This next choice is kind of an old folks band? A concert band made up of almost all the people I have known who had to give up the big spots. It is SO good with so much old talent. They play concerts at all the usual places for others and are quite good. Fingers crossed this finger will fix up nicely. Making music with your friends is about the best thing in the entire world.

Thank you to John, George, Paul and Ringo.

Thanks you for your work on gun control. It is good work and hard. BIG respect to you!

[mia]

10. They really were an inspiration to our generation.

Do you remember how that show influenced boys' haircuts? I remember that my brothers had crew cuts until then.

[Beausoleil]

16. My dad got me a crew cut at the start of every summer

I never wanted another crew cut after the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan.

[mia]

25. I was 17.

Now I can imagine how my younger brothers and sister must have felt. How did it change you?
For me, it seemed to open up the possibility that young people can have a lot of influence in the world, no matter what the adults said.

Thank you for your reply, MuseRider.

[MuseRider]

29. I love your reply!

At 17 you had a better grasp on how things worked. Thank you for sharing that. Those of us who were enough younger to not know how things really were were eventually led by you and we did do a lot of good things because of that.

Thank you for showing us that we could matter and that we should matter.

[Beausoleil]

7. I remember it clearly, I was 8.

Been a Beatles fan ever since.

I remember getting a transister radio shortly thereafter and I would listen to it for hours always hoping that the next song would be a Beatles song.

[mia]

23. Transistor radio

I had one, too. I remember clipping the alligator clip to metal to make it work,

[Emile]

8. I remember my sister going nuts, lol. A year

later I had a Beatles haircut.

[mia]

24. The end of the buzz cut.

Long hair for boys and girls for many years to come.

[Harker]

9. I do. It was my fifth birthday, and we gathered around the Silvetone TV.

My brothers' rooms were festooned with Beatles posters, etc.

I thought his name was Ed Solomon.

[Beatlelvr]

11. Me! Me!

My parents were appalled but who cared?! The Beatles made my puberty bearable, their records gave me something to look forward to. Saw them twice in L.A. The music has stood the test of time. And Paul and Ringo are still making music.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I remember this night!

I was in college, and living in a private dorm. The night of the show, we were all downstairs in the TV room, crowded onto every sofa and chair in sight.

We were reacting the way the girls in the clip were: shrieking, bouncing, clapping!

What a night! I'll never forget it!

[malthaussen]

20. So, who was your favorite Beatle, Peggy?

So many to choose from...

-- Mal

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. My favorite Beatle was the taller, more slender one--George was his name, I think! So gorgeous! nt

[malthaussen]

22. Cool! We have the same favorite.

A friend of mine used to say "John was the talented one, Paul was the cute one, and George was the quiet one." Poor Ringo didn't even get a mention.

-- Mal

[rogerballard]

13. I remember my Mother forever yelling at my older sister...

to turn the damn music down (Beatles)

[Nittersing]

15. I remember watching my sister watch the Beatles

I was 10 and not that aware. Ann was 14 and screaming right along with all the other girls.

[zanana1]

17. I'm so glad I was twelve when they appeared.

Hormones swamped my body, although I didn't realize I was going through puberty at the time. I've seen alot of things and I've done alot of things in my life, but nothing has been more exciting than sitting with my friends watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.

[Tikki]

18. My mother told me the parents discussed at work whether they should let their children....

watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
My mother excused herself into the kitchen when the Beatles appeared on the T V that night.

Tikki

[malthaussen]

19. The best story I heard about that...

... guy was watching a You Tube of the event a few years ago, maybe for the fiftieth anniversary. His grandmother comes in the room during one of the times they panned the screaming girls in the audience, and says "Omigod, that's me!" She'd been in the studio audience for the event. Lucky girl.

-- Mal

[calguy]

26. I remember my dad telling me...

"They're just a flash in the pan. Six months from now they'll be gone, and nobody will remember them."

What's funny is, I believed him.

[rurallib]

28. There was considerable reason that he could have been right

at that time not many rock acts endured more than a few months.
But boy oh boy was their music so different and enthralling

[dai13sy]

27. I thought I was going to pass out from Happiness.

It was the most exciting moment in my life up to then. Wait - Elvis came before the Beatles. Ed Sullivan had the admiration of millions of teen-agers everywhere