1963
“They’ve got something! From Liverpool, I hear, of all places.” “From Liverpool uber alles!”
They
leave their Cavern Club and within months they take the ascendancy in
the British pop world, and start to live the life of Riley in London.
They play the Palladium, the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show,
sing Moonlight Bay with Morecombe and Wise, give a spare hit to the
Rolling Stones, play hundreds of concerts in Britain, nip over to
Sweden, invent Beatlemania, record I Want to Hold Your Hand (their 4th
British number one in a year) and, as if in a dream – while their
conquering Paris – the record goes to Number One in America three weeks
before the Ed Sullivan Show in New York.If there had been no Beatles, no one would have had the imagination to invent such a story.
