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.

Throughout its 23-year run, The Ed Sullivan Show repeatedly made history with its penchant for marking the debut of a wide array of musical artists. Between 1948 and 1971, the variety series ...

Elvis Presley, at age 21, broke television records with his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on this day in history, Sept. 9, 1956. Elvis — along with his famous "gyrations" — had ...

The impact The Ed Sullivan Show exerted on the world of music in the 1960s simply can’t be denied. But it’s also true Sullivan’s old-fashioned beliefs often went head-to-head with the ...

There is much media frenzy over the 60th anniversary of the famous debut of The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964, which launched Beatlemania in the U.S. as well as in other ...

Jay Leno makes a cameo as Ed Sullivan in 'Midas Man,' a movie about the life and career of Beatles manager Brian Epstein Monica Schipper/Getty; Hulton Archive/Getty Jay Leno ran a time machine ...

David Letterman will make his long-awaited return to the Ed Sullivan Theater for the first time since he departed The Late Show in 2015 when appears as Stephen Colbert’s guest on Monday ...

As pointed out by fans on Twitter/X, the stage the Fantastic Four stands on is a clear homage to the Beatle's stage from 1964 on the Ed Sullivan Show. Those massive white arrows are a dead giveaway.

They became mainstays on the era’s variety shows, including “The Ed Sullivan Show” — and were even on the episodes where The Beatles made their American debut. “Mitzi McCall’s life was ...