On December 10, 1963 the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite ran a story about the Beatlemania phenomenon in the United Kingdom. After seeing the report, 15 year old Marsha Albert of Silver Spring, Maryland wrote a letter the following day to disc jockey Carroll James at radio station WWDC asking “why can’t we have music like that here in America?”.

The first few seconds of this might have a blank screen:

Joe wasn’t strictly part of the First British Invasion but he was at Woodstock:

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