A DVD of the entire Ed Sullivan Shows on which the Beatles appeared is available, and it is exceptionally entertaining. Of course, I'm not the only one who remembers the night the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, February 1964. From Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays:
The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan. And for the first time in months, I smiled. And for the first time in my life, I liked another kind of music. Al all through this magical broadcast, I heard this ticking noise. No. It wasn't 60 Minutes. It was Mom, making that disapproving sound. I was seeing the Beatles. She was seeing the death of jazz.
Once a month I got my hair cut from this wonderful barber in Long Beach. I would sit in the chair. He'd put the smock around me. And I'd say to him, "Cosmo, leave it long in the back, okay? Long in the back."
"Sure, Bill. Like one of the Be-ah tuls, huh? Everybody wants to look like one of the Be-ah tuls. You will look like a Be-ah tul too." He then started to clip my hair off….
"What are you doing!"
"Your mother called."
