Beatlemania hit the U.S.A. in full force after John, Paul, George and Ringo played 'The Ed Sullivan Show' on Feb. 9, 1964 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

4. The Doors (1967) This September 17, 1967 performance was actually the first and the last by The Doors on The Ed Sullivan Show.After being asked to change the lyric "couldn't get much higher" in ...

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“We didn’t really know how important Ed Sullivan was,” he says. “We hadn’t heard of him. … By the time we got to America, that was the coolest thing. But when we went on this ...

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After Berle's show, Ed Sullivan, whose variety show is one of television's most popular, declares that he will never hire Presley. Steve Allen, who has already booked Presley for The Tonight Show ...