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The Beatles "Meet the..."

Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, 14 January 2021

BEING EIGHT YEARS old in the Toronto suburbs of 1963, I was at the perfect age – and in the perfect place – to, yes, Meet the Beatles. Because by the time "these youngsters from Liverpool" hit The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 64, my friends and I had already spent the past several months familiarizing ourselves with John, Paul, George and Ringo's initial A-sides via Ontario's mighty 1050 CHUM-AM Radio.

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