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“It was 50 years ago today…”<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Feb. 9 1964, an estimated 73 million Americans tuned in to the Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> to watch the Beatles make their American debut, giving birth to the British Invasion, and ushering the frenzy known as Beatlemania.<\/p>\n

“The world sort of stopped,” says Institute for Popular Music Director John Covach, “and everybody listened.”<\/p>\n

This weekend, we look back on the four lads from Liverpool, and the impact they made on music, popular culture, and Rochester students alumni.<\/p>\n

Watch live online: Beatles Celebration Lecture Series — Instant Combustion<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Institute of Popular Music presents a lecture from University of Michigan professor Walter Everett, author of a two-volume work,\u00a0The Beatles as Musicians.
\n<\/em>Sunday, February 9, 2014
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‘You Love Them, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!’
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Ned Ferguson ’66 with some of his Beatles memorabilia. (Andy Manis \/ AP Images for Rochester Review)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the spring of 1964, walking across the Eastman Quadrangle, Edwin (Ned) Ferguson \u201966 heard someone shout from a first-floor dorm room: \u201cThey\u2019re on!\u201d He rushed to the room, which was covered with Beatles photos and posters, and gathered with eight or nine others around an AM radio to jam to \u201cShe Loves You.\u201d
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The (Rochester) Face of Beatlemania<\/a><\/h2>\n
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From teeny-bopper to grandmother: Robin Lynn ’70 as she appeared on the live broadcast of the Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> in 1964, and with her grandson Nathan in 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rochester alumna Robin Lynn \u201970 witnessed the birth of Beatlemania\u2014and had her reaction broadcast live on television. Fifty years later, she remains linked with the famous British foursome.
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‘Meet’ the Beatles<\/a><\/h2>\n
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David \u201968 and Amy Zimmerman Freese \u201971 still sing the occasional Beatles song (\u201cHere, There, and Everywhere\u201d is Amy\u2019s favorite) five decades after Amy saw the band as a high schooler on the Ed Sullivan Show.
(Michael Perez \/ AP Images for Rochester Review)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere are lots of neat things about my life, but when I tell people about this, their mouths drop,\u201d says an alumna about her chance to be part of a historic musical moment.
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50 Years of Beatlemania<\/a><\/h2>\n