January 3, 1964 –
A month before The Beatles make their iconic live debut in the US on the Ed Sullivan Show, Americans get their first look at the Fab Four when Jack Paar shows a film clip of the band performing She Loves You on his TV show.
In the fall of 1963, TV host Jack Paar was visiting England and witnessed the pandemonium surrounding the mop-headed lads from Liverpool. He wasn’t terribly impressed by their performance, bringing back footage mostly for laughs. “I never knew that these boys would change the history of the world’s music, which they did,” recalls Paar. “I thought it was funny, and I had ’em filmed and brought it to America months before Sullivan.”
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