60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
2/11/64 – The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in US, at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. was selected because this is the city that first broke their US breakthrough hit “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” “Please Please Me,” released a year ago, failed to chart … but (as we all know) WAS first played on the radio by Chicago DJ Dick Biondi … the first disc jockey to ever play a Beatles record in America
http://forgottenhits.com/who_played_the_very_first_beatles_record_in_america
Not everyone was enamored by The Beatles' landmark appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" ...
Columnist Paul Jones of The Philadelphia Bulletin had this to say in his "As I See It" column a couple of days later ...
Also on 2/11, Sarah Palin is born
