{"id":1832,"date":"2014-01-13T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2014-01-13T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:43:15","slug":"the-january-effect-a-look-at-the-boys-before-the-capture-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/the-january-effect-a-look-at-the-boys-before-the-capture-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cJanuary Effect.\u201d A look at the \u201cboys\u201d before the Capture of America."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Larry Kane, author Ticket to Ride, Lennon Revealed, When They Were Boys<\/strong> –<\/p>\n

January 1964. Paris, France. The boys had a triumphant run in Paris, which John Lennon described to me as \u201cone long celebration.\u201d It was, after all, in Paris where they found out that \u201cI Want To Hold Your Hand\u201d was number one in America. That had, according to John, \u201clessened a bit our concerns\u201d about \u201cmaking it in the states,\u201d or he added, with that sometimes crooked grin, \u201cthe colonies. Do we still call them that.\u201d?<\/p>\n

When I asked John in 1968 what was the best moment, the highlight moment of the Beatles career, he added, \u201cOh, Paris, hearing about\u2026it being number one\u2026remember it well, Larry\u2026milk\u201d Milk? Still trying to figure that one out, to this day. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

January also followed the pattern of the so-called \u201cSnowball\u201d memo which I revealed in the \u201cWhen They Were Boys\u201d book.\u201d It was a memo designed to create a snowball effect, prior to the Beatles landing in America. The elements? Just a little bit of film footage, the release of \u2018hold your hand\u2019 the day after Christmas, and news and p.r. masters Tony Barrow and Derek Taylor leaking just enough great tidbits to American reporters, including a slice of film to America\u2019s leading anchorman, Walter Cronkite.<\/p>\n

It was in January, that a confident Brian Epstein had finalized his deal to get the boys on three consecutive nights of the Ed Sullivan show, starting on February 9th.<\/p>\n

January was also the time that Epstein and Capitol \u201ccapitalized\u201d on all that music that John and Paul wrote. Oh yes! The songs that American broadcasters and labels had basically ignored in 1963. As John\u2019s sister Julia Baird would say, \u201cImagine This.\u201d That\u2019s her book title, but IMAGINE THIS!<\/p>\n

On January 3, \u201cPlease Please Me\u201d, and flipside \u201cFrom Me To You\u201d was released. The \u201csnowball effect\u201d continues: On January 10 \u201cIntroducing the Beatles\u201d is on sale. On January say hello to album \u201cMeet The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n

And let us not slight early February. 2\/3\/64 and its \u201cTwist and Shout.\u201d On 2\/7\/64, \u201cAll My Loving\u201d is unleashed, on the day the boys arrived in America, exactly 50 years before the opening of the 40th annual FEST, which I will help open with my one man show on Friday night, with all those details of heated days and stormy nights traveling with the Beatles.<\/p>\n

By the way, for those of you obsessed with detail: The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport, which was renamed on December 23, 1963, in memory of the President. The original name was Idlewild, the name of the golf course where the airport was originally constructed. The airport was modernized to get ready for the 1965 World\u2019s Fair, not far from Shea Stadium, where the Beatles changed music history by appearing before 60,000 fans in August 1965. During that concert, I watched from the steps of the Mets\u2019 dugout with Ed Sullivan. We didn\u2019t hear much, but watching the crowd itself was amazing.<\/p>\n

For those of you coming to New York for the first time, some places to see are Strawberry Fields, Central Park West, just off 72nd Street and the Dakota. Also: The Plaza Hotel, where the Beatles stayed on their first quick trip in 1964. The Delmonico Hotel where they stayed in the Summer of 1964, and where Bob Dylan introduced them to a banned substance.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for now. I\u2019ll be here, there and everywhere during those three days in the Fab Four Feb.<\/p>\n

Larry Kane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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