just heard, this is our music now. it was like hearing the future. ♪ i want to hold your hand >> i have to ask how you first found out about them. >> we first heard about the beatles in the london airport. there was an enormous crowd of kids gathered around. silvia and i asked them what was going on. they said the beatles were here. we didn't even know who the beatles were, we had never heard of them. that night i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, george harrison, and john lennon for three shows for $10,000. >> you know, for four white guys who were british, to come out of nowhere and be everywhere was quite unbelievable. >> the beatles are a bunch of guys from liverpool. i mean, people in london would have looked down at liverpool back then. but liverpool was a port town and port towns become places where all sorts of contraband gets exchanged. one of them at that point was