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Sixty years ago this week, The Beatles held their first U.S. concert in Washington, DC, before 8,000 fans, including a young Al Gore, future Vice President of the United States. Gore and Beatles historian Bruce Spizer look into the concert’s significance and its impact on the band’s legacy and popular culture. Source

IN FOCUS: Sixty years ago the Fab Four touched down in the US, greeted on the tarmac by fainting fans and police cordons – but stateside success wasn’t always a sure thing. Mark Beaumont chronicles the extraordinary, inimitable series of chance events that secured these scouse mop-tops a permanent place in America’s heart

The lads from Liverpool landed at JFK on Feb. 7, 1964, to a mob of fans. On Feb. 9, 73 million people watched them perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Science and faith will be the topics when Ian Wick, Ph.D., a retired professor and author of numerous articles in scientific journals, presents two sessions at the River Ridge Library,

WXRT radio personality Terri Hemmert MCs The Fest for Beatles Fans in Rosemont, The Great DuBois brings a mesmerizing circus spectacle to the Woodstock Opera House, Michael McDermott and Heather Lynne Horton play a benefit for Mercy Home, Ted Nugent stops here on his final tour, and much more.

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It was 53 years ago today (September 26th, 1969) that the Beatles' final album, Abbey Road, was released. Although the Let It Be album was released the next year featuring earlier unreleased tracks, Abbey Road was the last album the group recorded together. The album's working title had been Everest -- after a brand of cigarettes their engineer Geoff Emerick smoked -- before the group simply chose the name of the street where their recording studio was located. Abbey Road spent 11 week...

It was 57 years ago tonight (August 15th, 1965) that the Beatles played their legendary concert at Shea Stadium in New York City. The show was the first on their 1965 U.S. summer tour, and it was also the first-ever open-air stadium rock concert. The group flew into New York on August 13th and a day later taped a five-song performance for The Ed Sullivan Show to be broadcast the following month. Sullivan returned the favor by introducing the group the next night at Shea, in front of a sell-out c...

It was 56 years ago tday (August 5th, 1966), that the Beatles released their groundbreaking seventh album Revolver. What sets the album apart from its predecessors is that aside from a brief nine date UK tour the previous winter, and no new movie to be shot for 1966, the group had an unprecedented five months off to recharge their creative batteries, and for the first time the group was able to spend open-ended hours working on new sounds by experimenting with new instruments and state of the ar...

Fans gathered from across the universe in Charlotte to celebrate the music made famous by those four lads from Liverpool.