THE BEATLES

Long live the BEATLES : tomorrow , 50 years ago , the " Fab Four " landed at JFK to debut two days later on The Ed Sullivan Show , the stage of musical talent in America 's boom . " John could not understand that they were busy in the same set before them by Billy Holly and the Crickets ," recalled one of the technicians at the edge of the scene at the time of registration of the maxi - celebratory concert which airs tomorrow , February 9 , at the same time , half a century after the first appearance of cockroaches Use of Liverpool in front of 700 fans and a TV audience of 73 million. It was the beginning of the British Invasion, bookmark the page that made ​​him turn to a nation still shocked by the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas.

With the Beatlemania that rage in England , the Beatles climbed the U.S. charts with " I Want To Hold Your Hand" . In April 1964 , just a month after their arrival , occupied all five top positions of the Billboard charts . " Beatles in America. Scenario and the story fifty years later," the photographic book by Spencer Leigh recently published in Italy by Arcana tells all this and more with exclusive interviews with musicians , promoters and witnesses of all kinds. In the U.S., the four British hippies filled the theaters, arenas and stadiums the most prestigious quickly becoming " more famous than Elvis ," and then returned to America for another three tours over two and a half years . At the end of this cycle, in 1966 , Lennon said that the Beatles were " more popular than Jesus " , at which point the relationship with the American public became more complicated .