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Author:	Bob Spitz
Title:	The Beatles Invasion
Subtitle:	The Inside Story Of The Two-Week Tour That Rocked America
Publisher:	Time
Country:	USA
Date:	2013
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Music
ISBN-10:	1618931148
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9781618931146
Cat#:	451773
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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112 pages. Book dimensions: 19.2 cms x 1.6 cms x 25.3 cms.

From the dust jacket:

Beatlemania: America never saw it coming.

It seems impossible to recall a time when the Beatles weren't part of our collective consciousness. That long-ago era ended on Feb. 7, 1964, the day the Fab Four landed in New York for their first U.S. tour and their groundbreaking debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. They'd cracked America's insular charts only a few weeks earlier. "We didn't think we stood a chance," John Lennon recalled.

In The Beatles Invasion bestselling author and rock 'n' roll insider Bob Spitz follows them over the frenzied 15 days that brought Beatlemania to America and ignited a spirit that changed music and the course of a generation.

The tour introduced America to the Beatles and vice versa. And with it, the group tapped into a revolution that was waiting to happen, releasing a pent-up primal scream, a burst of pure joy, not yet shaded by the conflict that came later. The Beatles set off that initial outburst and provided the soundtrack for all that followed-cultural, social and political transformations.

"Hard to believe that songs about holding hands and simple adolescent lust could set all that in motion," says Spitz. "Their sudden appearance on the scene was sweet, it was unformed, it was exciting, it was a revelation. And dare we say it, it was fun.”

Also in this book:

• The Beatles' first glimpse of New York and the fan frenzy that would follow.
• Rarely seen photographs of their concert in Washington, D.C., by a then-18-year-old who stowed the negatives in a storage box and all but forgot about them.
• One of the unlikeliest photo ops of a media-crazed tour: the Fab Four meet the Greatest.
• The story behind the Beatles' Carnegie Hall performance-and how it led to their historic appearance at Shea Stadium.

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