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http://www.npr.org/2014/02/07/273036967/fresh-air-celebrates-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-beatles-arrival

Fresh Air Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Beatles' Arrival

February 07, 201411:16 AM

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Members of The Beatles play in the snow outside Washington, D.C.'s Coliseum where they were scheduled to perform before a sell-out audience in 1964.

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Fifty years ago, on Feb. 7, 1964, The Beatles touched down at JFK airport. Two days later they broke TV viewing records and changed music, fashion, history — and basically an entire generation — when they appeared live on The Ed Sullivan Show.