2026 MUS 354 Unit 2- British Invasion (1964 - 1966) Lecture 1_ A Hard Day's Night Arizona State
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Unit 2: British Invasion (1964 - 1966)
Lecture 1: A Hard Day's Night
Audio Lecture
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, Featured Songs
Part 2
• "A Hard Day's Night"
• "And I Love Her"
Part 3
• "Things We Said Today"
• "I'll Be Back"
• "Can't Buy Me Love"
• "If I Fell"
Clip 1:
Section 2 of our course picks up with the Beatles in early 1964. The group is seen for the first time
on US TV as I mentioned on January 3rd when NBC TV's Jack Parr Show airs a clip of She Loves You
and the BBC special The Mersey Sound which can now be bought on the Beatles' video and DVD
called The First US Visits. On the 15th of January the band makes a French debut in Versailles and
does a 20 date stint in Paris. During this time the Beatles also recorded the two songs we discussed
CD Dick and Compedana Hande, German versions of She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Then the news comes: Number one US hit with I Want to Hold Your Hand. The Beatles celebrate
with steak dinners in Paris. In February I Wanna Hold Your Hand is described by Billboard as a
driving rocker with a surf on the Thames sound and is played on American radio. It comes the
fastest ever UK million seller in the United States and it stays at number one until May of that year.
February 7th 1964, many people consider this the beginning of the British invasion. The Beatles
come to America. Pan Am flight PA101 touches down at 1:20 Eastern Daylight Time at New York's
John F Kennedy Airport. The Beatles come to the US and experience their near riotous thanks to the
major publicity engineered by Capitol Records and Brian Epstein. On the 9th, the group with
Flustridge and George makes its live US debut on CBS TV's The Ed Sullivan Show. 73 million people
watch the show and watch The Beatles perform. They perform All My Living, Tell Her It Was You,
She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There, And I Wanna Hold Your Hand. And they are paid twenty-
four hundred dollars, a meager amount one might think but Brian realized astutely that this was
going to lead to huge things for The Beatles so the money was secondary to the experience. So many
people in America watch The Beatles on their debut performance that the crime rate dropped
dramatically. One writer says even the criminals put down their stolen TVs, plugged them in and
watched The Beatles. It also helped The Beatles with timing. By that I mean The Beatles timing was
right on the mark. They have come to America on the heels of the assassination of John F Kennedy
and America is in doldrums and here come these four fast-talking humorous lads from Liverpool
with their funny haircuts their glib sense of humor as seen in their interview they do from the
panhand sign for the reporters there at the airport and of course besides their personality their fun
looking hair, their wonderful music, and their great songs. The Beatles now begin touring America.
On the 11th of February, The Beatles perform at the Washington Coliseum and on the 12th they
perform at Carnegie Hall. The barbershop next door offers free Beatles haircuts Then down the east
coast via train, and The Beatles love this experience ending up in Miami. Down they do a show once
again from Devoe Hotel in Miami They pose with Cassius Clay, who you know now as Muhammad
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Unit 2: British Invasion (1964 - 1966)
Lecture 1: A Hard Day's Night
Audio Lecture
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, Featured Songs
Part 2
• "A Hard Day's Night"
• "And I Love Her"
Part 3
• "Things We Said Today"
• "I'll Be Back"
• "Can't Buy Me Love"
• "If I Fell"
Clip 1:
Section 2 of our course picks up with the Beatles in early 1964. The group is seen for the first time
on US TV as I mentioned on January 3rd when NBC TV's Jack Parr Show airs a clip of She Loves You
and the BBC special The Mersey Sound which can now be bought on the Beatles' video and DVD
called The First US Visits. On the 15th of January the band makes a French debut in Versailles and
does a 20 date stint in Paris. During this time the Beatles also recorded the two songs we discussed
CD Dick and Compedana Hande, German versions of She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Then the news comes: Number one US hit with I Want to Hold Your Hand. The Beatles celebrate
with steak dinners in Paris. In February I Wanna Hold Your Hand is described by Billboard as a
driving rocker with a surf on the Thames sound and is played on American radio. It comes the
fastest ever UK million seller in the United States and it stays at number one until May of that year.
February 7th 1964, many people consider this the beginning of the British invasion. The Beatles
come to America. Pan Am flight PA101 touches down at 1:20 Eastern Daylight Time at New York's
John F Kennedy Airport. The Beatles come to the US and experience their near riotous thanks to the
major publicity engineered by Capitol Records and Brian Epstein. On the 9th, the group with
Flustridge and George makes its live US debut on CBS TV's The Ed Sullivan Show. 73 million people
watch the show and watch The Beatles perform. They perform All My Living, Tell Her It Was You,
She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There, And I Wanna Hold Your Hand. And they are paid twenty-
four hundred dollars, a meager amount one might think but Brian realized astutely that this was
going to lead to huge things for The Beatles so the money was secondary to the experience. So many
people in America watch The Beatles on their debut performance that the crime rate dropped
dramatically. One writer says even the criminals put down their stolen TVs, plugged them in and
watched The Beatles. It also helped The Beatles with timing. By that I mean The Beatles timing was
right on the mark. They have come to America on the heels of the assassination of John F Kennedy
and America is in doldrums and here come these four fast-talking humorous lads from Liverpool
with their funny haircuts their glib sense of humor as seen in their interview they do from the
panhand sign for the reporters there at the airport and of course besides their personality their fun
looking hair, their wonderful music, and their great songs. The Beatles now begin touring America.
On the 11th of February, The Beatles perform at the Washington Coliseum and on the 12th they
perform at Carnegie Hall. The barbershop next door offers free Beatles haircuts Then down the east
coast via train, and The Beatles love this experience ending up in Miami. Down they do a show once
again from Devoe Hotel in Miami They pose with Cassius Clay, who you know now as Muhammad
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