The Beatles have landed

[Apex]

February 7, 1964.

"On 9 February 1964, the Beatles made their first live US television appearance. 73 million viewers—about two-fifths of the total American population—watched the group perform on The Ed Sullivan Show at 8 P.M. According to the Nielsen ratings audience measurement system, the show had the largest number of viewers that had been recorded for a US television program."
- from Wikipedia

And the world of music changed forever.

[G.K.]

I just about remember that on the UK news, only 7 at the time.........Doubtless a great band but I've hardly got any Beatles in my record collection, preferred the Stones from that era, more blues in it.

[H]

I was given the designation of "technical advisor" by our band member George Harrison...
although that band played some Beetle songs, it wasn't the Beetles nor the same George Harrison.
Toward the latter part of the last century, I still collected old vinyl records but I'd gotten most of my Beetle albums while still in school; the last I remember buying -- new and on close-out for @ $2 -- was while I was attending school in Boston, MA.
I've managed to keep most of the vinyls in a plastic bin (can't say so for my reel-to-reels).